Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

[John Birrell]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:56:07AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> > If you get one, go straight to Dell's support site and get the
> > latest bios.  I had to do that before X would work. There have been
> > a few bios updates and my 1150 was shipped with an out-dated bios
> > which I thought lacked attention to detail by Dell when they build
> > the machines to order in Malaysia.
> 
> Interesting.  I had a similar problem with my 5150 18 months ago (see
> http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-jul2003.html#25 for details).  Is this
> what you saw?

I think the "bad V_BIOS checksum" sounds familiar. When I went to the
Dell support site, there was a bios update specifically for X on Linux.

-- 
John Birrell