Dell Inspiron 8600

= Hardware information =

PCI devices
PCI devices

Timing buffered disk reads
Timing buffered disk reads

= Hardware configuration =

make.profile
make.profile

USB Controller
Make sure that EHCI is loaded before UHCI (see bug #260139):

VGA compatible controller and LCD
Choose a graphics driver from those available for your card and follow the linked guide.

Network controller
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11880 Mar 3  2004 /lib/firmware/LICENSE -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 201138 Sep 27 2004 /lib/firmware/ipw2100-1.3-i.fw -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 196458 Sep 27  2004 /lib/firmware/ipw2100-1.3-p.fw -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 209190 Sep 27  2004 /lib/firmware/ipw2100-1.3.fw
 * 1) LANG= ls -Al /lib/firmware/*

dbus
make sure that dbus is started (needed by KDM)

HAL
HAL must be configured before xorg is started. Otherwise the display manager will not accept any input and the system has to be turned off by holding down the power button for 4 seconds.

Change "se" to your keyboard layout code.

make sure that hal is restarted (to read the new configuration)

xorg
Before startig xorg, make sure that HAL has been configured (and started). See above.