Comments on: Finally, Linux Worked on Dell Inspiron 2600

By: leoo229

leoo229 — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:45:26 +0000

how I can it with puppy 5.2, my screen look black
tx

By: alex

alex — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:53:11 +0000

I have been trying for 3 days to get my old 2600 working a qima station for my son. But it keep white screening.
this solved that!

By: AxeMan

AxeMan — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:58:41 +0000

Oh ok. When I’m running Firefox the corruption gets really bad. Especially buttons. It also gets worse over time

By: theUg

theUg — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:29:55 +0000

I’m thinking about it, although it doesn’t bother me as much. While in Xubuntu there are something like scratches on desktop, and in certain applications (like Opera or OpenOffice.org) it manifests with slight graphical artefacts around buttons etc., it much less visible in Kubuntu or regular Ubuntu without actual desktop corruption at all.

I’m able to run other two probably because I’ve upgraded the memory some time ago (good way to spend $25) up to 512 MB. And I’m going to switch entirely to Ubuntu after more testing, because of streamlined and familiar interface and network browsing.

By: AxeMan

AxeMan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:31:02 +0000

Have you made a bugreport before? Do you know how it’s made? Do you feel like making one or should I?

By: theUg

theUg — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:03:19 +0000

Yes, I got that too. I even tried both regular Ubuntu and Kubuntu and they get corruption on the screen as well, though to a lesser extent. Maybe it could be fixed by increasing amount of memory allocated for graphics.

By: AxeMan

AxeMan — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:42:03 +0000

I got it working. Thanks man. There is still some problems with graphics though. Do you get like patches on the screen?

And the gfaphics seems slow somhow like when moving windows and stuff. Do you know why?

By: Axel

Axel — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:31:40 +0000

I’ll burn a live cd, boot in safe graphics mode and try this. Thanks

By: theUg

theUg — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:37:05 +0000

You mean, to edit xorg.conf file? Got to terminal, type cd /etc/X11/, and then, type sudo nano xorg.conf (sudo is a superuser command, it’ll promt for your user password before you can edit; and nano is decent text editor).

Be careful editing it, to avoid making things worse. If X.org breaks completely, choose recovery mode on boot and once it’s loaded pick “Repair xorg.conf” or something to that effect to return configuration to its original state.

By: Axel

Axel — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:02:50 +0000

How did you get in to the xorg???

I’m not the best hacker in the world mind you.