Wed, 20 Oct 2004
Dell Latitude D60011:14
I've acquired a new laptop: Dell Latitude D600. I'm going to talk here about my experiences with it because I think it can be useful for somebody.
First of all, the laptop has the following components:
- 1.6GHz Intel Pentium-M (2MB L2 Cache 400MHz FSB)
- 14'' SXGA+ TFT LCD (1400x1050)
- ATI Mobility Radeon 9000, AGPx4, 32 MB DDR
- 2x 256MB SDRAM
- 80GB hard disk (EIDE ATA 100)
- 8 x DVD / 24 X CDRW
- Intel soundcard (AC'97 Audio Controller)
- 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN (Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet)
Linux Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux
Kernel version: 2.6.9 with no patches
| ATI Radeon 9000 M9 | |
| Works perfectly at 1400x1050 using Xfree 4.3 and radeon driver, but without 3D. You can check if you have 3D: $ glxinfo | grep "direct rendering" direct rendering: No To get 3D: Add the following line to your /etc/sources.list deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ ./ then # apt-get update # apt-get install xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk Reboot the X server and check it again: $ glxinfo | grep "direct rendering" direct rendering: Yes My Device section in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Radeon 9000"
VendorName "ATI"
Driver "radeon"
VideoRam 32768
Option "AGPMODE" "4"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
Option "SWCursor" "true"
EndSection
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| ATI TV-OUT | |
Works out of the box by doing the following:
Option "SWCursor" "true" |
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| SpeedStep / CPUFreq | |
| Since my CPU model is not still recognized by the cpufreq, I had to compile the kernel with the option [*] Use ACPI tables to decode valid frequency/voltage pairs (EXPERIMENTAL) and it works perfectly |
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| ACPI | |
| Works without patching the kernel |
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| Dell i8k | |
| The module has to be loaded with the force=1 option | |
The rest of the components works perfectly and they don't need to be commented
