Installing Debian on Dell M1210

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This guide is not completed, feel free to update it if you have more information

Summary

Summary
Component Status Comments
Camera Works driver linux-uvc only support V4L2
Card reader Need more research kernel patch? MMC dot work?
CD/DVD Works parameter at boot?
Dual Core CPU Works Install smp kernel
Ethernet Works out of the box
Firewire not tested
Media Butoms Works out of the box
Modem not tested, but... Propietary driver limit modem to 14.4Kb
SATA Disk Works out of the box
Sound Works out of the box
Suspend to RAM Need more research working for other people
Suspen to disk Need more research working for other people
S-Video output Works
Touchpad Works out of the box
USB Works out of the box
VGA Port Works
Video (NVIDIA) Works free and propietary driver
Wireless Works with some work Download driver: ipw3945

Specifications

  • Dell XPS M1210 Laptop - AR$ 5.200 (1.700 U$S)
    • Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7200 (1.66GHz, 4M L2 Cache, 667MHz FSB)
    • 1GB of Dual Channel DDR2 memory
    • 12.1" Widescreen WXGA (1280 x 800) display with TrueLife
    • 256MB NVIDIA GeForceTM Go 7400 TurboCache
    • 60GB 5400RPM SATA hard drive
    • 8x DVD/CD Burner (DVD+/-RW)
    • Webcam
  • Debian GNU/Linux Etch (testing) Daily Build Debian Installer
  • kernel 2.6.18-3 - Custom build

Detected by preinstaled windows (the last words of)

Modem:Conexant HDA D110 MDC V.92 (winmodem)
DVD: Sony DVD+-RW DW-Q58A
NIC: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
SATA: Intel(R) 82801GMB/GHM (ICH7-M Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller - 27C4
Card Reader: Ricoh Memory Stick Y MMC
Webcam: QuickCam for Dell Network
PAD: Synaptics PS/2 Port Pointing device

Base installation

Option I: Using Daily Build (I have used this)

Today, dailybuild Debian installer CD has solved SATA & CD problem

Option II: Using Debian Installer Etch beta 3 release

Error message: 

No common CD-ROM drive was detected.

SATA driver can block access to CD drive in installations from CD. On systems having a SATA IDE controller that also has the CD drive connected to it, you may see the installer hanging during hardware detection for the CD drive or failing to read the CD just afterwards. A possible reason is that the SATA driver (ata_piix and maybe others) is blocking access to the CD drive. You can try to work around this by booting the installer in expert mode and, in the "Detect and mount CD-ROM" step, selecting only the drivers needed for CD support. These are (ide-)generic, ide-cd and isofs. The drivers needed to access the disk will still be loaded, but at a later stage. By loading the CD drivers before the SATA driver in this way, you may be able to complete the installation. Note that CD-ROM access may still be an issue after rebooting into the installed system.

Booting debian netinst from USB drive

The workaround I used is to boot from a USB stick (don't worry you will get your CDROM working later). 

wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/\
main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz
gzip -dc boot.img.gz >/dev/sdX

Enable USB drive boot from BIOS setup, and then Install Debian base system as usual.

Option III: Using kernel boot parameters

(Not checked) You can append libata.atapi_enabled=1 to the install or expert command lines at the boot prompt to get your cdrom detected and then be able to install from it.

Configuration

APT

/etc/apt/sources.list 

deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing main
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ sid main

/etc/apt/apt.conf 

[..]
APT::Default-Release "testing";

Upgrade base system 

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

Kernel

Compiling a custom kernel

apt-get install linux-source-2.6.18 libncurses5-dev kernel-package
cd /usr/src
tar jxf linux-source-2.6.18.tar.bz2
cd linux-source-2.6.18
make menuconfig
make-kpkg --initrd --revision gacq01 kernel_image
cd ..
dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.18_gacq01_i386.deb

Manually edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and reboot

NVIDIA

Installing nvidia drivers

Pre-compiled driver if you install a linux-image

apt-get install nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-1-686
apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig

Build your own nvidia driver if you have builded your kernel

apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-kernel-common
cd /usr/src
tar xvzf nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz
cd linux-source-2.6.18
make-kpkg --revision gacq01 modules_image
cd ..
dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-2.6.18_1.0.8776-1+gacq01_i386.deb
apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-settings

More info in:

Configuration

Automatic

nvidia-xconfig

Manually

Update your /etc/X11/xorg.conf 

Section "Module"
        [..]
        #Load   "dri"
        [..]
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "NVIDIA"
        Driver          "nvidia"
        Option          "NoLogo"
        Option          "RenderAccel"   "true"
        Option          "NvAGP"       "1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        [..]
        Device          "NVIDIA"
        [..]
EndSection

Wireless interface

1. Downloads

driver from http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ for example 

wget http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ipw3945/ipw3945-1.1.0.tgz

ieee80211 subsystem from http://ieee80211.sourceforge.net/ for example 

wget http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ieee80211/ieee80211-1.2.15.tgz

firmware from http://bughost.org/ipw3945/ for example 

wget http://bughost.org/ipw3945/ucode/ipw3945-ucode-1.13.tgz

regulatory daemon from http://bughost.org/ipw3945/ for example 

wget http://bughost.org/ipw3945/daemon/ipw3945d-1.7.22.tgz

2. Install these modules ONLY if you didn't compile your own kernel 

apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.1x-1-686-smp
apt-get install gcc-4.0

3. Complile and install modules 

tar -zxvf ieee80211-1.2.15.tgz
cd ieee80211-1.2.15
make
make install
cd ..
tar -zxvf ipw3945-1.1.0.tgz
cd ipw3945-1.1.0
# if you have problems here with kernel 2.6.18 see notes
make
cd ..
tar zxvf ipw3945-ucode-1.13.tgz
mkdir /usr/local/lib/firmware/
cp ipw3945-ucode-1.13/ipw3945.ucode /usr/local/lib/firmware/
tar zxvf ipw3945d-1.7.22.tgz
cp ipw3945d-1.7.22/x86/ipw3945d /sbin/ipw3945d-$(uname -r)
cd ipw3945-1.1.0
cp ipw3945.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)
depmod -a

4. create init script: /etc/init.d/ipw3945 

#!/bin/bash

case $1 in
start)
 echo -n "Load ipw3945:"
   modprobe -i ipw3945
   /sbin/ipw3945d-$(uname -r) --timeout=30
   sleep 2
   echo " done."
;;

stop)
   echo -n "Unloading ipw3945:"
   /sbin/ipw3945d-$(uname -r) --kill
   modprobe -ir ipw3945
   sleep 2
   echo " done."
;;
esac

exit 0

chmod 755 /etc/init.d/ipw3945

5. Enable start on boot 

update-rc.d ipw3945 defaults 30

6. /etc/network/interfaces 

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

Notes:

  • If your are planning to use your wireless interface in monitor mode, for example to use kismet, uncomment "CONFIG_IPW3945_MONITOR=y" from the driver Makefile before running make.
  • If you have error: "too few arguments to function ‘ieee80211_tx_frame’" problems compiling ipw3945-1.1.0 with 2.6.18 kernel. ipw does not properly recognize the version of ieee802.11 stuff in the kernel. A quick hack is to change "EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DIEEE80211_API_VERSION=$(IEEE80211_API)" to "EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DIEEE80211_API_VERSION=2" on line 96 of Makefile. (http://dotcommie.net/projects/XPS-M1210/)

References

WebCam

Using uvcvideo - Only work with v4l2

Driver: http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ 

apt-get install libpt-plugins-v4l2
svn checkout http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/linux-uvc/
cd linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk
make
sudo make install
modprobe uvcvideo
dmesg | tail
ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video

Notes:

  • Only v4l2 is supported
  • Add users to system group "video"

Webcam test 

apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev
wget http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Investigation/uvc/luvcview-20060706.tar.gz
tar -xvf luvcview-20060706.tar.gz
cd luvcview-20060706
make
./luvcview -d /dev/video0 -f jpg -s 640x480

References


Sound card

If you have conflict with the webcam USB microphone you can use this configuration in /etc/modprobe.d/sound to set the correct device order asignation. 

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel index=0
alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio
options snd-usb-audio index=1

dvd/cdrom

Error trying to open /dev/sg0 exclusively (Permission denied)... retrying in 1 second.
cdrecord: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/sg0'. Cannot open SCSI driver.

do: 

chgrp cdrom /dev/sg0

Modem (Not tested)

Driver

These are NOT free, however - an uncrippled version will set you back USD 19.99, the free ones only support 14k4 :-( 

dpkg -i hsfmodem_{version}_{arch}.deb
if necessary, run "hsfconfig" to complete the installation, enter license information, or to change your modem's configuration.

Hacerlo andar igual

Otros http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Conexant_HSF_modem_drivers

Ricoh Card Reader

research

Suspend

Suspend to RAM - Not working yet

apt-get install gnome-power-manager

to validate

  • After the installation of the NVIDIA driver, Suspend to RAM worked well after setting SUSPEND2RAM_FORCE="yes" in '/etc/powersave/sleep'.

research

Cambiar en /etc/default/acpi-support 

ACPI_SLEEP=true
#ACPI_HIBERNATE=true
ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE=true

General references

Other sites about M1210 & Linux

About Debian

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