Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product 8000 Dell
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Nori’s mini-HO WTO: Debian W o o dy on the Dell Inspiron 8000 Nori Heikkinen August 13, 2003 Rationale All my previous installs of Debian hav e b een really easy , but then again they’ve all been on PC desktops. The deal has b een: 1. Download the first ISO image onto CD 2.
• 256M RAM • A TI T echnologies Inc Rage Mobility M4 AGP • ESS T ec hnology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 10) • a Dell Logitech scrolly-wheel infrared mouse, model M-UR69 I was w orking off a Debian W o ody image with the sto c k kernel 2.
linux video=vga16:off (The kernel image, followed b y the bo ot parameters.) Y ou can now bo ot up ok a y , but y ou’ll need to be wary of this when you’re glibly ‘ENTER’ing through menus late.
if the display is not p erfect — it might not crash if it’s not, but if it does, you don’t wan t to hav e to not only wait for it to check all its ino des (if you hav en’t yet tune2fs ’d it to ext3 — see Section 7.1), but p erhaps screw up in the pro cess of so many crashes.
But, b ecause y ou’ll probably wan t to prin t, to o, you’ll need all of the follo w- ing (or so a website told me, and it work ed): apt-get install cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client foomatic-bin sa.
kernel-package ) makes it really easy . But it w as not to be. I managed to screw up my whole install (and the RedHat and Windoze partitions on the b o x as w ell, by accidentally installing MBRs in them!). So, don’t do that. What you w ant to get down with is LKMs — Loadable Kernel Mo dules .
. . . where “8TRACK0” is my domain, “Nori Heikkinen” is my username, and “mypassw ord” is my password (not really , ha ha). Y ou can call this file what- ever y ou wan t to, and put it wherever you w ant. I called mine .smbmount-ned and put it in m y homedir; it really doesn’t matter.
2.4.1 Using the CUPS browser in terface CUPS’ printer controls are located, convenien tly , here: http://localhost:631/ There’s a menu of tasks to choose from, from which you can configure new printers and manage the jobs of already-configured ones.
3 External Mice This to ok me a while to figure out. F or whatever reason, I couldn’t just plug in my external USB mouse (which I nee de d in order to not kill my wrist on that damn trackpad! 2 ) and ha ve it work. Instead, like with the rest of this install, I wen t through a whole song and dance ab out it.
3.2 Configuring X Dman, of debian-user, made a nice little summary 3 that I’m going to copy wholesale: If you wan t mouse in console and X: • gpm reads from the mouse device itself. With a PS/2 mouse this is /dev/psaux. With a USB mouse (and devfs, I hav en’t used USB without devfs) it is /dev/input/mice.
InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "Logitech Mouse" EndSection F or reference, my /etc/gpm.conf lo oks like this: device=/dev/input/mi ce responsiveness=30 repeat_type=raw type=imps2 append="" sample_rate= The important clauses there are the device, the repeat t yp e, and the t yp e.
and to make sure it got inserted at bo ot time, by adding it to /etc/modules . Make sure your sound devices exist ( /dev/dsp* ). Mine did. At this p oint, try catting a wa ve file to your sound device, to see if that did the trick: spycellar: ~ # cat wavfile.
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 Jun 30 12:17 /dev/dsp1 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 35 Jun 30 12:17 /dev/dsp2 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 51 Jun 30 12:17 /dev/dsp3 Y ou might hav e to restart X for the changes to tak e place within X, though they should work immediately on the console.
configured your shell, window manager, or an y programs you’ve do wnloaded, your settings are saved there; /etc , b ecause the system files that you spent so long getting right are sav ed there.
F or those as sketch y on filesystem types as I am, it seems to be pretty basic. In the README on the original ext3 download page, the author answ ers the journaling question: Q: What is journaling? A: It means you don’t ha ve to fsck after a crash.
any com bination of u/g/r permissions can b e specified by three unique num bers. ‘700’ means that the user has read, write, and execute p ermissions (6+4+1) but that no one else do es; ‘644’ means that the user has read and write p ermissions, and that every one in the same group and all others have only read p ermissions.
An important point after buying a device Dell 8000 (or even before the purchase) is to read its user manual. We should do this for several simple reasons:
If you have not bought Dell 8000 yet, this is a good time to familiarize yourself with the basic data on the product. First of all view first pages of the manual, you can find above. You should find there the most important technical data Dell 8000 - thus you can check whether the hardware meets your expectations. When delving into next pages of the user manual, Dell 8000 you will learn all the available features of the product, as well as information on its operation. The information that you get Dell 8000 will certainly help you make a decision on the purchase.
If you already are a holder of Dell 8000, but have not read the manual yet, you should do it for the reasons described above. You will learn then if you properly used the available features, and whether you have not made any mistakes, which can shorten the lifetime Dell 8000.
However, one of the most important roles played by the user manual is to help in solving problems with Dell 8000. Almost always you will find there Troubleshooting, which are the most frequently occurring failures and malfunctions of the device Dell 8000 along with tips on how to solve them. Even if you fail to solve the problem, the manual will show you a further procedure – contact to the customer service center or the nearest service center
