This may warrant looking into... But of course..Dell's are screwy in many ways.
So a Knoptiplex won't work....interesting.
(knoppix + Optiplex)
One thing I noted, was that after running 'dmesg' I get some info about the ACPI and it clearly states that it isn't recognized, and then it mentions that it's a XEON acpi ? Huh, Don't know what that's about. Is that right? Or is Linux screwing things up here.
This may warrant looking into... But of course..Dell's are screwy in many ways.
So a Knoptiplex won't work....interesting.
(knoppix + Optiplex)
>> So a Knoptiplex won't work....interesting.
(knoppix + Optiplex)
--Good one! Ka-nop-ti-plex... ROFL
Originally Posted by Rubicant
Is this a Dell precision workstation 750?

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