Mike,

Google is your friend....searching with Dell "Laptop Latitude D505 Linux"
returned these results and 9,010 others.

http://asl.epfl.ch/~kolski/d505.html

http://www.linlap.com/wiki/Dell+Latitude+D505

http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/dell.html

http://home.kivu.nl/ubuntuondell/UbuntuLinuxonDellLatitudeD505.html

It looks like it works with Debian/Ubuntu/Slackwaer/Suse/Gentoo and others.
it might take some tweaking.

Mark

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:18 PM, mike enriquez <mylinux@cox.net> wrote:

>  I have a Dell Laptop Latitude D505 and I would like to remove Win xp and
> install  Linux. Has anyone on the list done this before?
> I am concerned about the drivers for the laptop under Linux.
> Help !
> Mike Enriquez :)
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