Installing Debian on Dell M1210

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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 Works
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 Download driver: ipw3945

Specifications

  • Dell XPS M1210 Laptop - AR$ 5.200 (1.700 U$S) - July 2006
    • Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T2300 @ 1.66GHz
    • 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 - Kernel source from sid

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

Debian GNU/Linux Lenny (testing) Daily Build Debian Installer

Kernel built in module for lan interface does not work, I used an old Etch (testing) net installer

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

Free drivers (nv)

Installed during xserver installation

Proprietary drivers (nvidia)

Only for 3D acceleration and other advanced features, if not use free driver, you'll feel better.

Installation

apt-get install nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-4-686 nvidia-glx nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig

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

ipw3945 driver manual installation for Debian Etch


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

Others

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