RedHat on Inspiron 8200

Hardware

I got an inspiron 8200 with:

• 1.6/1.2 Ghz P4-mobile
• 15 inch. 1600x1200 Enhanced UXGA screen
• 40Gb HD (5400 rpm, IC25N040ATCS04-0)
• IDE UDMA-100 (Intel 82801CAM)
• GeForce 440 Go GFX card (32Mb RAM, nVidia NV17)
• 512Mb RAM
• DVD drive (TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2502)
• Floppy-disk bay-drive
• 1600x1200 UXGA (enhanced) screen
• AC97 Audio (Intel 82801CA/CAM)
• WinModem (Intel 82801CA/CAM)
• 2xUSB (Intel 82801CA/CAM)
• 3c905 10/100 Ethernet (3c920 i think)
• 2xPCMCIA port (Texas Instruments PCI4451)
• IEEE-1394 FireWire Controller (Texas Instruments PCI1410)
• Internal Dell 1150 TrueMobile mini-PCI card (PCMCIA style)

Quality / Performance

The Enhanced UXGA 1600x1200 screen is amazing. It's so crisp I'm actually utilizing the 1600x1200 resolution without problems! Also other resolutions appear much prettier than normal scaled resolutions on TFT screens. You can even get a screenshot (warning 200kb!)

Using the enhanced UXGA display is possible in all but the brightest sunshine (in Denmark, so it may not be that great!)

The GeForce 4 Go and the CPU card makes Medal Of Honour run in 1600x1200 at 25-50 FPS with my normal settings. For comparison, my Athlon Thunderbird 1Ghz with a GeForce 2MX-64Mb runs at 30-50 FPS in 1024x768.

Setup notes

1. RedHat 9.0
2. RedHat 7.3