Dell Inspiron 9300 + Debian

indiglopulse · 07-15-2005, 02:34 AM

I have a few questions.

I have Debian Sarge running on my Inspiron 9300. There are no problems with the install, everything is running very smoothly (nothing I can't fix) but I am looking to basically add a few things.

1- X will not recognize my custom resolution. The reason for this is because the horizontal sync is out of range. My question here is, does anyone either know what the Hsync ranges should be on this particular model of a Dell? The display is an UltraSharp TFT ActiveMatrix 17" Widescreen. The native resolution is 1440x900. I know the proper X setup and everything, I just don't know what the hsync should be, and the Dell documentation is less than enough.

2- My touchpad. How can I get it working? I have a USB mouse that I am using at the moment, at /dev/input/mouse0. I don't know the first thing about getting my touch pad working, however. Links or instructions are appreciated.

I am running:

Code:

XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 20050601051219 fabbione@fabbion$Release Date: 15 August 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.29-pre2 i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 01 June 2005

(taken from /var/log/XFree86.0.log)

Thank you in advance for any help.

J_K9 · 07-15-2005, 04:18 AM

To configure your screen resolutoin, you may want to check out this link and look at the 5.4.2 section. I know it's from the FreeBSD docs, but it still works! About your Hsync, you may need to contact Dell and just ask them...

Debian on Dell Inspiron 9300 - found this in Google! You can find everything you need to do in there - from resolution, to hsync, to Synaptic touchpad!

Quote:

HorizSync 28-110

The touchpad section's slightly too long to quote!

J_K9

indiglopulse · 07-15-2005, 06:44 AM

Thanks for the reply, most helpful!

The second link was useful in getting my X configured properly. However, the instructions were slightly *off* because they were using a different resolution.

The solution I used was:

Code:

Section "Monitor"

    Identifier  "DELL Panel WUXGA"
    DisplaySize 330 210
    HorizSync   28-110
    VertRefresh 43-90
    Option "DPMS"
    Modeline "1440x900" 106.5 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -hsync +vsync

EndSection

And then adding the appropriate "1440x900" to the "Screen" section. The problem was that the 1440x900 was an unknown mode (in addition to the unknown hsync). That modeline is for a 60 hz refresh.

Still wasn't able to get the touch pad working, though. upon loading X, if the touchpad is set to the CorePointer, then it can't be loaded because it can't find the device. I look through /dev/input and there is no device detected aside from mouse0, which is my USB mouse.

For the multimedia keyboard (i know i didn't post this originally, but it is in the link you posted)The link you gave referenced lineak, which only has support up to the Inspiron 9100 (he apparently used the 9200 and "faked" it, but when I installed using the testing flags, there was no 9200 model, only 9100, and the revisions were to great to be able to pretend). Do you know of any other method to make hte multimedia keys function?

Also, for some reason I can't seem to make my wireless connection work. But in all honesty I haven't really tried, so I'll google a bit then get back here if need be.

The final problem I'm having is that my scroll wheel doens't work. My x config is "right" but it doesn't work:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier			"USB Mouse"
    Driver			"mouse"
    Option "Protocol"   	"Auto"
    Option "Device"    		"/dev/input/mouse0"
    Option "SendCoreEvents"	"true"
    Option "ZAxisMapping"	"4 5"
    Option "CorePointer"
    Option "Buttons"		"5"
EndSection

Thanks for your help!

J_K9 · 07-15-2005, 06:50 AM

Hmm...to tell you the truth my touchpad and scroll wheel worked out of the box (in Ubuntu), so I don't know how to fix those, but for your wireless have you checked the HCL? If it's not there, then post back stating the chipset and we'll try to help you out! As for the link, no problem!

Try searching Google for the other stuff, you're bound to find something about it!

J_K9

indiglopulse · 07-15-2005, 07:02 AM

Code:

josh@betsy:~$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Mobile Memory Controller Hub PCI Express Po rt (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB  UHCI #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB  UHCI #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB  UHCI #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB  UHCI #4 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB 2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
0000:00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH 6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03 )From lspci:

0000:03:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 4223 (rev 05)


it is the Intel PRO/Wireless.
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Contro ller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00c8 (rev a2)
0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (re v 02)
0000:03:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
0000:03:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev  08)
0000:03:01.2 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0822 (rev 17)
0000:03:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 4223 (rev 05)

The wireless should be the Network Controller: Intel Corp.

I need to install the ipw2200 module before the kernel will recognize the interface, but the source won't come up in dselect. I haven't had a chance to download the .tar and manually enter the modprobe.

Thanks again

EDIT:
Also, I checked the HCL and the chipset is here but that still doesn't help me all that much. but, again... i havne't tried to manually download the drivers, i've only used apt-get, where the package could not be found.

J_K9 · 07-15-2005, 07:09 AM

Download the .tar and do the modprobe, and see if that works...What's wrong with the HCL entry for your card? Try doing exactly the same but using apt-get instead of rpm (I don't think this will work, because they are quite remote packages, but if you've added the extra repositories you might be able to get them - worth a shot).

Quote:

fluffi@shrek:~> sudo apt-get install ipw2200-source
The NVidia and the ipw2200 kernel modules can be installed more comfortable using the module-assistant

root@shrek:~> tar xvfz ipw2200.tgz
root@shrek:~> cp *fw /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
root@shrek:~> modprobe ipw2200
Download ipw2200.tgz from ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php and install the files in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware and load the kernel modules.

To configure the wireless interface automagically on system startup - if you have a DHCP server running

- edit /etc/network/interfaces e.g.:

iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless_mode managed
wireless_rate 54M auto
wireless_channel 9
wireless_essid ESSID
wireless_key s:THE_KEY
fluff@shrek:~> sudo apt-get install modules-assistant
root@shrek:~> modules-assistant

Tried that yet? Please post back, John, with the result!

J_K9

edit: Searching Google, there were quite a few results for ipw2200 deb - for example, this site has .deb packages for a few versions of ipw2200.

indiglopulse · 07-15-2005, 07:14 AM

Tried that, and apt-get couldn't find the module

i downloaded the archive from ipw2200.sf.net and followed hte readme:

Code:

betsy:/home/josh/ipw2200-1.0.6# make

 ERROR: ieee80211.h not found in '/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/include'.

 You need to install the ieee80211 subsystem from http://ieee80211.sf.net
 and point this build to the location where you installed those sources, eg.:

 % make IEEE80211_INC=/usr/src/ieee80211/

 will look for ieee80211.h in /usr/src/ieee80211/net/

make: *** [check_inc] Error 1

So i downloaded and installed the IEEE80211:

Code:

betsy:/home/josh/Downloads/ieee80211-1.0.3# make
Checking in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/build/ for ieee80211 components...

make -C /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/build M=/home/josh/Downloads/ieee80211-1.0.3 M ODVERDIR=/home/josh/Downloads/ieee80211-1.0.3 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.27-2-386'
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/split-include scripts/split-include.c
scripts/split-include include/linux/autoconf.h include/config
make -C  kernel CFLAGS="-D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.27-2-386/incl ude -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -Os -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-commo n -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i386 -DMODULE - DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.27-2-386/include/linux/modvers ions.h" MAKING_MODULES=1 modules
make: *** kernel: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make: Entering an unknown directorymake: Leaving an unknown directorymake[1]: ** * [_mod_kernel] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.27-2-386'
make: *** [modules] Error 2

And that one I'm stuck... i know i have the proper linux headers installed... but at this point i'm stuck.

Thanks for all your help so far, now i'm off to bed to finish this tomorrow. You've been most helpful, thank you. It is much appreciated.

indiglopulse · 07-23-2005, 08:22 PM

Sorry to all for bumping old thread, but I just did a bit more research (this took a backseat for a bit because of work) and it appears as though for the wireless, one MUST use kernel version > 2.6, and I have 2.4. Not sure if this is the case for the touch pad/multimedia keyboard....b ut I haven't been able ot get those working yet either.

ghostofrecon · 03-25-2006, 07:51 AM

i am attempting to install debian on my dell inspiron 9300, using the network install disk, and it will not recognize my harddrive/controler card (PCMCIA).
what arguments can i use to facilitate this?