Dell_XPS_M1710

This article is part of the Hardware series.

Laptops • TV Tuner Cards • Wireless • Servers • Storage • Other Hardware • Motherboards • Related

Dell XPS M1710

1 Hardware
2 Hardware Status Overview
3 Kernel Configuration
4 Kernel config
5 lspci output
6 Xorg Configuration
7 Make Configuration
8 Dell Laptop guides
9 Generic Laptop guides
10 Other guides

Hardware

17 inch display @ 1920x1200
Intel Core Duo
Intel 82801G chipset (ICH7)
Up to 4 GB RAM
Nvidia Geforce Go 7900GS/GTX / Geforce Go 7950GTX
Synaptics touchpad
Western Digital SATA hard drive
TSST TS-L632H slim 8x DVD+/-RW optical drive
Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5752_rev02 Gigabit Ethernet
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Module (Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR)
Conexant D110,HDA,MDC,v.92,modem
SIGMATEL STAC 92XX C-Major HD Audio
USB 2.0
Ricoh RL5c476 II PC Card controller
Ricoh R5C832 Firewire controller
Ricoh R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro adapter
Ricoh R5C592 Memory Stick adapter
Ricoh xD-Picture Card controller
serial connector

Hardware Status Overview

	Device	Working	Driver	Troubleshooting
Processor	Processor
Drives and Storage	Hard Drive		ata_piix
	Optical Drive		ata_piix
	Firewire		ohci1394
	Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro		ricoh_mmc
USB	USB		uhci, ehci
Graphics	NVIDIA		nvidia
Input Devices	Keyboard		keyboard
	Touchpad		synaptics
	Functions Keys
Networking	Ethernet		tg3
	WLAN: Intel		iwlwifi
	Modem	unknown
Sound	Sound		snd_hda_intel
Other	PC Card	unknown	yenta_socket
	Hardware Sensors	unknown	i8k
	LEDs		libsmbios
	Suspend to RAM
	Suspend to Disk	unknown

Kernel Configuration

Based on kernel 2.6.25 - 2.6.26

Everything is in the Device Driver section of the linux kernel configuration.

USB :

Linux Kernel Configuration: USB

 USB support -> Support for Host-side USB
   -> EHCI HCD (USB 2.0) support / UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support

Ethernet :

Linux Kernel Configuration: Ethernet

 Network Device support -> Ethernet (1000 Mbit)
   -> Broadcom NetXtremeII support

Wifi :

Linux Kernel Configuration: iwlwifi

 Network Device support -> Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11)
   -> Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection

Note: Also emerge iwlwifi-3945 to download the microcode into /lib/firmware.

Audio :

Linux Kernel Configuration: ALSA

 <*> Sound card support
     Advanced Linux Sound Architecture  --->
     <M> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
         PCI devices  --->
         <M> Intel HD Audio
         [*] Build IDT/Sigmatel HD-audio codec support

Note: Also emerge alsa-utils.

If you have problems with getting the sound to work, try to add "options snd-hda-intel model=lenovo" to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa and run update-modules. You can also try instead the lines: "options snd-hda-intel model=laptop" "options snd-hda-intel model=dell" or try to enable the support for all Intel HD Audio codecs in the kernel, or in last resource disable the kernel support and emerge alsa-drivers.

Bluetooth

Linux Kernel Configuration: Bluetooth

Networking --->
 <M> Bluetooth subsystem support --->
  <M> L2CAP protocol support
  <M> RFCOMM protocol support
   [*]   RFCOMM TTY support
 Bluetooth device drivers --->
  <M> HCI USB driver
   <M> CONFIG_BT_HCIBCM203X

Note: Also emerge bluez-libs bluez-utils

Splash Screen

Linux Kernel Configuration: Fbsplash Options

Device Drivers --->

Graphics support: --->
  [*] Support for frame buffer devices
  <*>   VESA VGA graphics support
          VESA driver type (vesafb)  --->
Device Drivers > Graphics support > Console display driver support:
 [*] Video mode selection support
 <*> Framebuffer Console support
Device Drivers > Graphics support:
 [*] Support for the framebuffer splash

Note: This is of course not enough, see the Fbsplash page.

Kernel config

A minimal 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 .config can be found here.

A minimal 2.6.26-gentoo-r1 .config can be found here.

These files are of course given without any warranty. "They work for me" is all I can say. They are minimal, which means that you will probably have to add some stuff at one point or the other. What is supported: Ethernet, Wifi, Bluetooth, Sound, FireWire (untested), PC-card (maybe - untested), SplashScreen (untested, see Fbsplah)...

lspci output

--TODO--

Xorg Configuration

File: /etc/X11/xorg.conf

 
--TODO--

Make Configuration

This is MY make.conf, not yours ;-) However it includes some interesting features of the portage system.

File: /etc/make.conf

 
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
USE="-gnome acpi alsa apm arts avahi bluetooth bash-completion cairo cdr \
     crypt css cups dbus dell dvd dvdr examples ffmpeg firefox \
     flac gif gnutls hal ieee1394 hddtemp htmlhandbook java java6 \
     jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal laptop lm_sensors mmx mp3 mpeg \
     mplayer msn ntfs nvidia ogg opengl openssh pcmcia png pdf \
     plasma posix qt3 qt3support qt4 reiserfs scanner sdl speex spell sse sse2 \
     ssl subversion svg svga truetype threads tiff unicode usb vcd \
     vim-syntax vorbis wifi wma X x264 xcomposite xine xinerama \
     xpm xvid zip"

GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ \
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/ \
http://gentoo.mirrors.hoobly.com/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/"

INPUT_DEVICES="$INPUT_DEVICES synaptics"
ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa vga"

EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--verbose" #Always tell what you do
PORTAGE_NICENESS=15 #Lower portage process sheduler priority
#FEATURES="splitdebug $FEATURES" #Don't strip debug symbols, put them in /usr/debug/ instead.
#LINGUAS="en fr pt_BR"
#ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" #testing

#Personal overlays
#PORTDIR_OVERLAY="
#/usr/portage/local/other
#$PORTDIR_OVERLAY
#"

#Layman configuration
source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf