Difference between revisions of "Laptop Dell Latitude E6500"

Revision as of 21:35, 21 May 2009

After my previous laptop being end-of-lease I got this one in May 2009.
Here is my setup experience of a Debian Squeeze.

Dell
Official page
Linux & E6500
- Debian squeeze on E6400
- Latitude E6x00 & Gentoo
Debian Squeeze
- ISO
- Current squeeze kernel is 2.6.26-15 which is good as there was a fix for the touchpad integrated since 2.6.26-13:
  Register DualPoint model found in Dell Latitude E6500 (Closes: #507958)

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo P8600 (2.4GHz, 3M L2 Cache, 1066MHz)

vendor_id: GenuineIntel
cpu family: 6
model: 23
model name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz
stepping: 10 (800 -> 2400?)
cache size: 3072 KB
flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon
bogomips: 4787.96

2.0GB, DDR2-800 SDRAM, 2 DIMMS
Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)
- HD Audio Controller, PCI bridge: 4 Ports PCI Express, SMBus Controller, ISA bridge: ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller, 6 USB controllers, 2 USB2 controllers, SATA RAID Controller
- Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset (rev 07): Memory Controller Hub, Integrated Graphics Controller, Integrated Graphics Controller
CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba)
FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)
SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 21)
System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev ff)
on USB: 0a5c:5800 Broadcom USH (Unified Security Hub)/ Contacted SmartCard
Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100
15.4in Wide Screen WXGA (1280x800) LED
8X DVD+/-RW
160GB Hard Drive, 5400RPM or 160GB Hard Drive, 7200RPM with Free Fall Sensor ??
Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD

left side
- USB Powershare
- USB/eSATA (for ext HD or E-Mod?)
- VGA
- Express slot
- SD card reader
back
- power input
- DisplayPort Dual Mode plug hole (generates DVI/HDMI signal with a simple line-level conversion dongle)
- Ethernet plug hole
- Room for modem plug, but no modem installed
bottom
- connector for docking station
- SIM card slot, empty, hidden behind the battery
right side
- 2xUSB
- smartcard reader
- mic, headphone
- 1394
- wifi catcher button??
- wifi switch
- PCMCIA slot
- DVD +/-RW

but can be found on other E6500 setups:

As loaded by a USB-bootable Ubuntu:

@@ Line 14: / Line 14: @@
 ==Hardware==
 ===CPU===
-Intel® Core™ 2 Duo P8600 (2.4GHz, 3M L2 Cache, 1066MHz)
+'''Intel® Core™ 2 Duo P8600 (2.4GHz, 3M L2 Cache, 1066MHz)'''
 *vendor_id: GenuineIntel
 *cpu family: 6
@@ Line 23: / Line 23: @@
 * flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon
 *bogomips: 4787.96
 ===Misc===
 * 2.0GB, DDR2-800 SDRAM, 2 DIMMS