Difference between revisions of "Laptop Dell Latitude E6410"

Revision as of 22:18, 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

Status with this v0.9:

vertical scrolling: OK with right side, OK with 2 fingers
horizontal scrolling: NOT with bottom side, OK with 2 fingers
circular scrolling: NOT working

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  sudo dpkg -i psmouse-alps-dkms_0.9_all.deb
  sudo modprobe psmouse
+Status with this v0.9:
+* vertical scrolling: OK with right side, OK with 2 fingers
+* horizontal scrolling: NOT with bottom side, OK with 2 fingers
+* circular scrolling: NOT working