lunar on a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop

[Richard Pyne]

Well, over the past 6 days, I have managed to get Lunar 
installed (mostly) on my mew Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop.

The first challenges were getting the network interfaces to 
work. Under the 2.4 kernel, I had to find, build and load the 
bcm4400 module to get the internal NIC to work, and I had to 
install ndiswrapper and the bcmwl5 driver from WinXP.

Then came the fun of moving to the 2.6 kernel (suggestion, make 
the udev module create the /sys directory, it would have saved 
me several hours). Under the 2.6 kernel, the kernel included b44 
dirver works for the internal NIC, but the wifi still requires 
ndiswrapper and windows driver.

After two days of downloading and installing, I now have kde3 
installed and mostly functional.

Now for the request for help. I have spent most of today trying 
to figure out how to configure X11 to utilize the capabilities 
of my video system. The graphics controller is an Intel 915GM 
and the monitor is a 15.4 inch WXGA with a resolution of 1280 x 
800. It looks like what I am getting is a stretched 1024 x 768.

I haven't even started trying to get the sound to work yet.

So, if there are any X gurus out there, I would greatly 
appreciate any help offered.

--Richard