Dell Laptop Issues

[reckedracing]

So i am working on this dell laptop that i;m hoping to be able to run uberdata etc on....

it runs now and seems to be ok, but the display driver is all fucked up
i only have shitty resolution and 16 color...

i am trying to get the right driver but the website has 10 for the inspiron 7500 laptop monitor and none of the ones i have tried seem to work for me

the service tag is smeared and i can;t read it and i tried to use dell's service to have it select which driver you need but that goes no where...

any suggestions?
anyone know how to find out which screen/monitor this piece of shit has?

 

[posol]

go to your device manager, and see what kind of graphcis card you have. chances are, you don't need anything more than the default monitor driver-- its the graphics card that needs a driver.

 

[reckedracing]

ok it has a standard PCI graphics driver

is a video driver the same idea?

whats the easiest way to find out which card is in there?
system shows a standard card...

dell shows 3 drivers under video


well, i added the first video driver on dell's website and it came up with tiny resolution upon reboot so i think its good now

is there any way i could find out which card it actually is to make sure i do indeed have the right driver?
dell's website lists
ATI Mobility M
ATI Mobility P
QI Cinemaster Software DVD Update

and i chose the M

would it be better if i went with P? or just go with it since it works now?

 

[Battle Pope]

dell laptops are such pieces of shit. if it works, leave it alone.

 

[reckedracing]

lol
thanks

so i have good resolution, good color, i got it to work on my work LAN so i have internet access, and i just got the speakers to work...

this laptop might be a piece of shit, but it does work and it will work great for ostrich, datalogging, and uberdata...

muhahahhahaha

Turbo D16Z6 is back on track finally...

 

[Sabz5150]

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ok it has a standard PCI graphics driver

is a video driver the same idea?

whats the easiest way to find out which card is in there?
system shows a standard card...

dell shows 3 drivers under video


well, i added the first video driver on dell's website and it came up with tiny resolution upon reboot so i think its good now

is there any way i could find out which card it actually is to make sure i do indeed have the right driver?
dell's website lists
ATI Mobility M
ATI Mobility P
QI Cinemaster Software DVD Update

and i chose the M

would it be better if i went with P? or just go with it since it works now?

Download a copy of Knoppix, burn it to CD. Run that and go to a command prompt. Type 'more /proc/pci' and that will tell you EXACTLY what you have in that thing.

 

[ripperbone]

do you have the driver disk? if not you might have to download all the drivers off dell site and find the one that works

 

[phunky.buddha]

"Dude- you got fucked by Dell."