Laptop Dell Latitude E6410

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These notes are very succinct, only enlightening differences with Laptop_Dell_Latitude_E6500 notes.

Editing BIOS settings

  • System Configuration
    • Integrated NIC; Enabled
    • SATA Operation: AHCI
    • Latitude ON Reader: disabled
  • Virtualization support
    • Enable VT for Direct I/O: enabled

Installation

From Wheezy netinstall iso

Partitioning

  • Create part#1, 255MB, ext2, /boot
  • Create part#2, 4GB, physical volume for encryption (will be our swap) => swap
  • Create part#3, 30GB, physical volume for encryption (will be our root) => ext4, user_xattr
  • Create part#5, 90GB, not formatted (will be our /home)
  • Create part#6, 35.8GB, not formatted (will be our /professional)

Video

nouveau

  • seems to have only a reduced palette
  • dual-screen with DP/hdmi output works
  • audio via HDMI fails
  • 3D (e.g. compiz) fails
  • flickering of screen at all resolutions after a while

nvidia

cf http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

aptitude install nvidia-glx

Create /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "Module"
   Load        "glx"
EndSection
Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Video Card"
   Driver              "nvidia"
EndSection
  • smoother palette
  • no additional output, xrandr sees only the LID :(
  • audio via hdmi fails but cf previous point, need first to get hdmi working at all...
  • 3D works
  • console font gets bold??

Touchpad

Was a hell to get something else than a stupid "ps/2 mouse"

A few bugreports are tracking the problem, e.g. on Fedora and Ubuntu, where I could find a very freshly patched psmouse driver

wget http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/alps-touchpad/psmouse-alps-0.9/psmouse-alps-dkms_0.9_all.deb
sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo dpkg -i psmouse-alps-dkms_0.9_all.deb 
sudo modprobe psmouse

And everything works like a charm, e.g.

synclient -l
synclient CircularScrolling=1
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1

Audio

Internal mic was working OOB but I cannot output sound on the HDMI.
Tried several snd_hda_intel options such as model=dell-s14 but no progress.
Some info...

Apparently hdmi audio is not supported by nouveau, only by proprietary drivers, pfff

Suspend

Suspend to RAM sometimes freezes and I've to force power off.