FC3 on a Dell Inspiron 6000

[Ishan]

I received my Dell Inspiron 6000 last week and manage to install Fedora Core 3 on it.

Dell Inspiron 6000
Intel Pentium M Processor 730 (1.60GHz/533MHz FSB)
15.4 inch WXGA LCD Panel
1GB Shared DDR2 SDRAM 2 DIMMS
Integrated Intel® Media Accelerator 900 Graphics
40GB Hard Drive @ 5400 rpm
Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
24X CD-RW/DVD Combo
Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal Wireless (802.11 b/g, 54Mbps)
80 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery

Up to now, I was able to make almost everything work, but there is still issue that anoy me a lot

First of all the damn video card ! The basic Vesa driver is working but I am not able to load or install the driver from Intel. I have search through this forum for help on running Intel i915 driver on a 1280x800 resolution, but there seems to be more than one person having problem but no one to make it works.

Wireless card is working #1 and that is really great, since my FC3 update with up2date everything is there and working with WEP encryption (anyone succeed to use WPA-SPK ?)

FC3 update is nice and easy, but for a weird reason, since I upgrade, my touchpad is now ultra sensitive to tap click and I can't find settings to ajust that ? anyone have an idea ?

I was able to show up the battery meter with gnome panel but what about cpu speedstep to save battery life and pc hibernation ? Closing the screen on the laptop doesn't but the OS in hibernation ether, I still need to reboot each time.

Thanks for your future help.

[imdeemvp]

There may not be a driver for the i915 yet but lets hope it will be included in fc4. Now are you using the generic LCD driver for laptop? if no this may help.

[jeffk42]

There are a few options for the touchpad settings that I've found useful...

Do you have your /etc/X11/xorg.conf setup for the touchpad? If so, you need to mess around with the following options in your touchpad section:

Option     "FingerLow"     "15"
Option     "FingerHigh"     "20"
Option     "MaxTapTime"     "0"

FingerHigh determines the minimum amount of pressure placed on the pad to count as a press. FingerLow is the maximum pressure allowed before is counts as a release. MaxTapTime is how long your finger needs to touch the pad before it counts as a click. I don't like the Tap-Click feature because I accidentally trigger it all the time, so I have it turned off with "0".

[joelja]

I grabbed the driver from here:

http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots...x.i386.tar.bz2

installed it, which was more or less painless on fc3

then I grabbed this configuration. renamed it org.conf and that pretty much worked....

http://www.fam-lindeman.nl/media/XF86Config-4.txt

now if you can make acpi sleep work on this laptop I'd be totally set... I've got it to the point that the laptop sleeps fine, but when it wakes up, assuming the display comes back which doesn't happen all the time, then it hangs waiting for the disk to come back. I assume this is another issue with the sata controller, like not having dma on the cdrom drive...

this thing is almost to the point where it's sufficiently functional to actually replace the dell that I bought it to replace.

[Ishan]

Originally Posted by joelja

I grabbed the driver from here:

http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots...x.i386.tar.bz2

installed it, which was more or less painless on fc3

then I grabbed this configuration. renamed it org.conf and that pretty much worked....

http://www.fam-lindeman.nl/media/XF86Config-4.txt

now if you can make acpi sleep work on this laptop I'd be totally set... I've got it to the point that the laptop sleeps fine, but when it wakes up, assuming the display comes back which doesn't happen all the time, then it hangs waiting for the disk to come back. I assume this is another issue with the sata controller, like not having dma on the cdrom drive...

this thing is almost to the point where it's sufficiently functional to actually replace the dell that I bought it to replace.

Wow ! this package is really nice and is working perfectly ! thank you for the link !

I am finally in 1280x800 on this laptop !

[mlow82]

Hi Ishan,

I also have an Inspiron 6000 from Dell and am trying to get Fedora Core 3 to boot. I partitioned up the hard drive and installed Fedora, but can't get the X Window system to run (the laptop freezes shortly after the "starting X Windows" message appears). I was hoping you could help. Did you do anything special to get the display to work?

My configuration is almost the same as yours, display and graphics-wise:

Dell Inspiron 6000
Intel Pentium M Processor 730 (1.60GHz/533MHz FSB)
15.4 inch UltraSharp WSXGA+ LCD Panel
Integrated Intel® Media Accelerator 900 Graphics

and here's my xorg.conf:

# XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the 
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.

	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "fbdevhw"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "type1"
	Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#	Option	"Xleds"		"1 2 3"

# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
#	Option	"XkbDisable"

# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
#	Option	"XkbModel"	"pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
#	Option	"XkbModel"	"microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
#	Option	"XkbLayout"	"de"
# or:
#	Option	"XkbLayout"	"de"
#	Option	"XkbVariant"	"nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
#	Option	"XkbOptions"	"ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
#	Option	"XkbOptions"	"ctrl:nocaps"
#
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Unknown monitor"
	HorizSync    31.5 - 37.9
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 70.0
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "vesa"
	VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
	BoardName   "VESA driver (generic)"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     16
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
		Modes    "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Group        0
	Mode         0666
EndSection

Thank you for any assistance you can provide.

Matt

[mlow82]

Hi everyone,

I found out how to fix X-Windows on my laptop. For the benefit of others who have the same problem on the same laptop, I'll post what I did here.

I suspect that the X-Window system does not support i915 chipset from Intel, because everything worked after I updated the graphics drivers. I downloaded dri-I915-v1.1-20041217.i386.rpm from

ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/8211/eng/

and per the instructions I entered:

rpm -i dri-I915-v1.1-20041217.i386.rpm

at the command prompt. Then, after rebooting, I found that X-Windows successfully started, but the screen was very much distorted. So I went back and adjusted the resolution to 1024x768 in xorg.conf. Then I rebooted again, and a few moments later, I saw GNOME for the very first time.

Later, I found that I could increase the resolution via the settings in the pull-down menu in the upper-left corner of the screen. That was nice. So everything seems to be working fine now. I can begin to enjoy Linux!

[kaiserzoze]

ABOUT BATTERY LIFE INSPIRON 6000


hello,
I suspect that my battery is not 100% ok, although I have my inpiron 6000 since 3 weeks.

Can someone post the results of

#cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
#cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state

I have a 9 cell battery (7200mA) the info file shows design capacity 7200mA but the state file shows that the las full charge was 6880mA the first day I plug my computer. Now 3 weeks later says 6840mA, I think this is a signal of the battery degradation, but it is too soon!

What are your values? post them (I do not have my laptop here, when I ve got I will post them)

Also in the /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state file when not AC pluged there is information about discharging rate, I get about 1700-2100mA with dimest screen light and doing 'nothing at all' wifi off.


Thank you

[Boaz Bagbag]

Hi,

I've installed FC3 on my inspiron 6000 and found that my wireless card is not working ( intell Pro 2200bg) how can I make this to work. please help....

Thanks!

[adyzah]

Hello, i saw this message:

>>>
as far as the xserver goes...
I grabbed the driver from here:

http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshot...ux.i386.tar.bz2

installed it, which was more or less painless on fc3

then I grabbed this configuration. renamed it org.conf and that pretty much worked....

http://www.fam-lindeman.nl/media/XF86Config-4.txt
<<<

I am trying to install the i810 drivers on my inspiron 6000 + FC3 but i am having the following problem: they leave only few snapshots and the one you pointed is no longer there.

i tried a new one but says that could not the i810 driver because is too new (said smth about driver minor version (8) is greater than the server's (7))

If i take a 2004 snapshot (the oldest) it won't compile.

Can anybody provide any help at all please?

Thanks,

Adrian