Awesome! I got suspend and 3D graphics working fine on the Dell E6400!
Searching the Fedora / RPMFusion repositories revealed this:
[izamryan@localhost ~]$ yum search nvidia | grep -i ‘driver’ : driver for NVIDIA graphic cards xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 : NVIDIA’s proprietary display driver for NVIDIA : driver for NVIDIA graphic cards xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-beta.x86_64 : NVIDIA’s proprietary display driver for NVIDIANVIDIA proprietary display drivers … hrm … my laptop has an NVIDIA GPU Quadro NVS 160M.
Get some more info:
[izamryan@localhost ~]$ yum info xorg-x11-drv-nvidia Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit Installed Packages Name : xorg-x11-drv-nvidia Arch : x86_64 Version : 177.82 Release : 1.fc10 Size : 9.2 M Repo : installed Summary : NVIDIA’s proprietary display driver for NVIDIA graphic cards URL : http://www.nvidia.com/ License : Redistributable, no modification permitted Description: This package provides the most recent NVIDIA display driver which allows for hardware accelerated rendering with NVIDIA : chipsets GeForce6 series and newer. GeForce5 and below are NOT supported by this release. For the full product support list, : please consult the release notes for driver version 177.82.Installing this with yum -y install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia enables 3D acceleration (Desktop Effects now works) and suspend works perfectly now.
I now pronounce the Dell E6400 as sufficiently “Linux Friendly” for use. My only remaining hardware issue seems to be the Bluetooth device, and I haven’t tried the memory card reader (I’m not a photographer).
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