Comments on: Linux on Dell X1 http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/ Entangled? Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:36:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Martin http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-73583 Martin Fri, 18 May 2007 18:27:44 +0000 http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~gronslet/blog/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-73583 Hm, this post is far too long. And much of the content is quite outdated. Please check out the newer Fedora posts <a href="http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/linux-on-a-dell-x1-aka-samsung-q30/" rel="nofollow">here</a> and the discussion therein. This post is now closed ;) Hm, this post is far too long. And much of the content is quite outdated. Please check out the newer Fedora posts here and the discussion therein.

This post is now closed ;)

]]> By: Martin http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-73579 Martin Fri, 18 May 2007 18:20:46 +0000 http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~gronslet/blog/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-73579 Andreas: Sorry so late response - I have not found a way to do that. There is no such switch in kde-bluetooth (kbluetootd). Of course you can disable bluetooth permanently in the BIOS, but I guess that's not what you're looking for. Don't think removing the bluetooth module actually turns off the circuit either. Hm, I don't even know what the name of that module is... Andreas: Sorry so late response – I have not found a way to do that. There is no such switch in kde-bluetooth (kbluetootd). Of course you can disable bluetooth permanently in the BIOS, but I guess that’s not what you’re looking for. Don’t think removing the bluetooth module actually turns off the circuit either. Hm, I don’t even know what the name of that module is…

]]> By: Andreas http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-69569 Andreas Thu, 10 May 2007 10:54:49 +0000 http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~gronslet/blog/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-69569 Hi, did anyone manage to deactivate bluetooth but not wlan in fc6? I can deactivate both with FN+F2 and I can deactivate wlan with the NetworkManager frontend. But not bluetooth while wlan keeps active. Hi, did anyone manage to deactivate bluetooth but not wlan in fc6? I can deactivate both with FN+F2 and I can deactivate wlan with the NetworkManager frontend. But not bluetooth while wlan keeps active.

]]> By: Martin http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-64348 Martin Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:15:20 +0000 http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~gronslet/blog/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-64348 kzarog: Thanks - this is good to know, I might want to try the A06 BIOS again some day. Needless to say, I haven't got any reply from Dell Support about the BIOS bug. I just updated my FC6 page - I recommend all of you to give hardware feedback to the Fedora Project by using <a href="http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/fedora-core-6-on-a-dell-latitude-x1/#smolt" rel="nofollow">smolt</a>. It's done in less than a minute, and might help on future support out of the box for the Dell X1 on future Fedora Core releases (maybe FC7?). I also updated my ACPI scripts and fixed a black screen problem when using hibernate. If anyone of you have got a fullgrown <code>xorg.conf </code>file that uses the "<code>intel</code>" driver (not the "<code>i810</code>"), that works with an external monitor and external projector and at the same time works with compiz/beryl AND works with ACPI sleep and hibernate (phew), I would love to know about it (your <code>xorg.conf</code> and ACPI sleep script) kzarog: Thanks – this is good to know, I might want to try the A06 BIOS again some day. Needless to say, I haven’t got any reply from Dell Support about the BIOS bug.

I just updated my FC6 page – I recommend all of you to give hardware feedback to the Fedora Project by using smolt. It’s done in less than a minute, and might help on future support out of the box for the Dell X1 on future Fedora Core releases (maybe FC7?).

I also updated my ACPI scripts and fixed a black screen problem when using hibernate. If anyone of you have got a fullgrown xorg.conf file that uses the “intel” driver (not the “i810“), that works with an external monitor and external projector and at the same time works with compiz/beryl AND works with ACPI sleep and hibernate (phew), I would love to know about it (your xorg.conf and ACPI sleep script)

]]> By: kzarog http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-63596 kzarog Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:14:33 +0000 http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~gronslet/blog/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-63596 Hello. I've had the frequency problem as well and running bios A06. But with the new Ubuntu Feisty, the system is really responsive! I think the kernel guys have updated the thermal tables inside the kernel and the system throttles perfectly well. Feisty runs on 2.6.20. Unfortunately openSUSE 10.2 has 2.6.18 with the throttling problem present. I'm also reporting that, everything works with openSUSE out of the box except for the resolution (but is easily solved) and the modem. Hello. I’ve had the frequency problem as well and running bios A06. But with the new Ubuntu Feisty, the system is really responsive! I think the kernel guys have updated the thermal tables inside the kernel and the system throttles perfectly well. Feisty runs on 2.6.20. Unfortunately openSUSE 10.2 has 2.6.18 with the throttling problem present. I’m also reporting that, everything works with openSUSE out of the box except for the resolution (but is easily solved) and the modem.

]]> By: Bjørn Christian Sebak http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-62923 Bjørn Christian Sebak Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:31:42 +0000 http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~gronslet/blog/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-62923 I got it up to 78* C. during a SuperPI benchmark one hot summer. It was rock stable all the way, but you could NOT have it on your lap. Man, that hurt! :) I got it up to 78* C. during a SuperPI benchmark one hot summer. It was rock stable all the way, but you could NOT have it on your lap. Man, that hurt! :)

]]> By: Fabien Meghazi http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-62922 Fabien Meghazi Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:27:03 +0000 http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~gronslet/blog/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-62922 As weather comes hot again I was wondering what is the max temperature which is "safe" for the latitude dell ? Currently it often goes up to 70 degrees C (150 °F) As weather comes hot again I was wondering what is the max temperature which is “safe” for the latitude dell ? Currently it often goes up to 70 degrees C (150 °F)

]]> By: kristus http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-44834 kristus Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:49:31 +0000 http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~gronslet/blog/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-44834 I don't think the acpi scripts has anything to do with it. I know that everything else wakes up as it should because all network services (ftp, ssh etc) works fine and I can, for example, Alt+Ctrl+F1 to a console and reboot. I did try your scripts as they used some commands that I though might fool the screen back on, but they didn't. In fact, lid sleep didn't even work, but I don't use fedora (I use gentoo) so there might be differences. I did migrate the useful parts from your configuration to mine, but that didn't bring the screen back either. I don’t think the acpi scripts has anything to do with it. I know that everything else wakes up as it should because all network services (ftp, ssh etc) works fine and I can, for example, Alt+Ctrl+F1 to a console and reboot. I did try your scripts as they used some commands that I though might fool the screen back on, but they didn’t. In fact, lid sleep didn’t even work, but I don’t use fedora (I use gentoo) so there might be differences. I did migrate the useful parts from your configuration to mine, but that didn’t bring the screen back either.

]]> By: Martin http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-43353 Martin Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:51:23 +0000 http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~gronslet/blog/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-43353 kristus: Check out my acpi scripts in the "Files" section of my <a href="http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/fedora-core-6-on-a-dell-latitude-x1/" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">FC6 page</a> (direct link <a href="http://eightflat.org/downloads/etc/fc6/etc/" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">here</a>). More up to date discussion is on the <a href="http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2006/10/07/fedora-core-6-on-the-dell-x1-discussion/" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">FC6 discussion page</a>. kristus: Check out my acpi scripts in the “Files” section of my FC6 page (direct link here). More up to date discussion is on the FC6 discussion page.

]]> By: kristus http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-42907 kristus Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:49:56 +0000 http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~gronslet/blog/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-42907 My screen has stopped waking up from suspend (both from disc and ram) and won't even come back by changing the lcd brightness (neither keyboard buttons nor smbios tools (i.e. dellLcdBrightness) works). I had this working like half a year ago, but I have not used it since then, thus not noticing that it stopped working for some reason. But now I will be needing suspend-to-ram again! I have no idea what caused this... what can cause something like this? I've tried reverting back to a really old kernel, but that didn't do it. Any information will be appreciated! My screen has stopped waking up from suspend (both from disc and ram) and won’t even come back by changing the lcd brightness (neither keyboard buttons nor smbios tools (i.e. dellLcdBrightness) works). I had this working like half a year ago, but I have not used it since then, thus not noticing that it stopped working for some reason. But now I will be needing suspend-to-ram again! I have no idea what caused this… what can cause something like this? I’ve tried reverting back to a really old kernel, but that didn’t do it. Any information will be appreciated!

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