Dell Inspiron 3800 video and sound

[Member mattkingusa]

Hello everyone. I recently installed antiX on a Dell Inspiron 3800.

The System Specs
700MHz Pentium III
128MB PC100 RAM
10GB PATA 5400rpm Hard Disk Drive

I found a really nice guide that was posted in 2000 by James F. Carter. This guide was very helpful in setting up the sound and the GPU.

Link To The Guide

A link on the Debian Wiki was helpful for sound.

A Link To The Debian Wiki

The only issue with this wiki is that the file alsa-firmware-1.0.25.tar.bz2 is not available on the ftp server listed in the installation steps.
I was able to find this file HERE and completed the guide with successful results.

The guide by James F. Carter helped me to configure my xorg.conf however I had to remove a few lines because I have an 800×600 panel.

My Xorg configuration is as follows,

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Dell I-3800”
VendorName “Dell”
ModelName “I-3800”
EndSection
Section “Device”
Identifier “ATI-RAGE”
VendorName “ATI”
BoardName “RAGE-Mobility”
Option “power_saver”
EndSection
Section “Screen”
Driver “accel”
Device “ATI-RAGE”
Monitor “Dell I-3800”
# Choose your preferred default color depth: 8, 16 or 24.
DefaultColorDepth 24
Subsection “Display”
Depth 8
Modes “800×600”
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “800×600”
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “800×600”
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection “Display”
Depth 32
Modes “800×600”
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection

Thank you to the antiX developers for giving new life to this machine. I can now play Pingus and Penguin Command like it’s the year 2000 again!

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