Anyone with Arch on Dell Mini 9 (Inspiron 910) ?

As subj ask
thanks !

Thanks buttons. Arch installation on Dell Inspiron Mini 9 completed. Here it goes
fs : ext4 worked fine but when Ieft on battery over night  for Syu caused most of the config and executables to disappear. reinstalled with ext3 with 4
       partitions. (root/boot/usr/home). ext3 with noatime,commit=15 option. Added 512 MB swap latter (swap in file). /var/log and /tmp in tmpfs
sound: alsa fails at times without any reason and leaving no sign even with option in modeprobe.conf.  oss works fine.
                       for the alsa to work the google search provided the following solutions.
                       blacklist snd-pcsp. put the options mentioned in this thread and alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel in modprobe.conf
WM/DE : metacity / GNOME with slim login manager.
             : Problem faced: without any DE/WM mounting swap / var / tmp directories on 16 GB SDHC card works. but with DE/GNOME GNOME fails on
               gconf-sanity-check-2 exited (status 256) error message. (all xml files in .gconf are tho' with right permissions). gdm issues error something
               related to missing /var/log/gdm directory and hence switched to slim. (/var/log in temfs)
Power saving: suspend works. even with 512 MB swap files hibernation is not working as expected.
Networking : conventional method (network daemon) works fine for Ethernet (r8169 driver). wireless network connection yet to be tested. (wireless connection tested and working fine)
                        side note: netcfg miserably fails. network connection dropped without leaving any message.
                             correction: The problem is not with netcfg as eth0 and eth1 are getting swaped. The
                                              solution is to put the modules in rc.conf or creating udv rule.
Total Installation size: aprox: 3.3 GB
Others: bluetooth is yet to tested. web cam works as mentioned in this thread.
                          bluetooth is working fine.kernel pulls the modules but not enabled.
                          To enable use this aircraftmanger
                           Side note: for the aircraft manger to work portio needs to be installed and is in aur.
       Hope this will help the Dell mini 9 users with Arch installation.
Last edited by kgas (2009-05-21 13:11:23)

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    Thanks again.
    That a guid partition, not an mbr one.  But win7 should be able to boot from that, I think.  Grub has some sort of ability to boot windows with grub bootloader.  You're not using a 64-bit version of Windows installer on a 32-bit Windows?  You can boot from the 64-bit CD to override that.

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