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psybeer

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Registered: 2009-01-16

Posts: 14

Arch Linux on a Dell Precision M4500

I just bought a Dell M4500, and there are 2 issues I'd like to bring up and seek help with.

** SD Card Reader
According to lspci I have the following reader:

04:00.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e822 (rev 03)

The problem is that when I insert any SD card (sd or sdhc) I get the following error:

mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising SD card

I have searched online and in these forums with no clear answer for this problem.

** Touchpad
I have Xorg 1.8 installed and letting evdev manage my devices. I see a 10-synaptics.conf file in the xorg.conf.d folder, but nowhere on the xorg logs is there any mention of a synaptics driver being loaded. The touchpad can move the pointer and even tap is enabled, but it does not scroll or any advanced options. When I attempt to run Gsynaptics it also mentions of synaptics driver not being loaded.
What could be keeping the synaptics driver from being loaded?

Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks!

loafer

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Registered: 2009-04-14

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Re: Arch Linux on a Dell Precision M4500

I have a Dell Inspiron and I used the udev rule from the Wiki to get SD cards to mount, prior to adding the rule I had an error similar to yours.

I don't use the touchpad so I don't have any idea about that issue I'm afraid.

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nTia89

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Registered: 2008-12-22

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Re: Arch Linux on a Dell Precision M4500

to configure touchpad you can use GNOME preferences-> mouse

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Anntoin

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Registered: 2009-08-10

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Re: Arch Linux on a Dell Precision M4500

@psybeer
I also have a Dell M4500. I haven't checked the SD card issue - will do when I have some extra time.

As for the touchpad there is a problem with it not being recognised as an ALPs device (it just shows up as a generic PS/2 mouse) also the protocol has changed for this device, it is being worked on upstream. See:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16146 and
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14660

Hopefully it won't be too long until there is a fix.

Last edited by Anntoin (2010-08-13 12:13:25)

Lockheed

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Registered: 2010-03-16

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Re: Arch Linux on a Dell Precision M4500

I have a Dell Inspiron and I used the udev rule from the Wiki to get SD cards to mount, prior to adding the rule I had an error similar to yours.

Can you link this udev rule so others can find it easily? I failed to find anything SD-specific in the wiki