Difference between revisions of "Laptop Dell Latitude E6410"

Revision as of 22:12, 7 October 2011

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

for now, keeping default driver nouveau

3D not tried, compiz fails

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

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 * Create part#6, 35.8GB, not formatted                (will be our /professional)
 ===Video===
+for now, keeping default driver nouveau
-cf [http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers Debian wiki page on Nvidia]
- aptitude install linux-headers-3.0.0.1-amd64 nvidia-kernel-dkms
+D not tried, compiz fails
- aptitude install nvidia-xconfig
+===Touchpad===
- nvidia-xconfig
+Was a hell to get something else than a stupid "ps/2 mouse"
+A few bugreports are tracking the problem, e.g. on [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=590880 Fedora] and [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/550625 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