Dell XPS M1330 entry in the wiki. Discuss here !

Fackamato · 2008-06-13 21:21:47

Yeah when I got the laptop, before booting Vista for the first time, I switched from ATA to AHCI in BIOS. Windows booted fine, but it was when I tried to reinstall Vista that the issue appeared. Currently using the laptop in "ATA" mode. Yeah I upgraded the BIOS, it's the latest, A08.

Been trying to fix my wlan.. to no avail. I got all the firmware files in /lib/firmware, andor an when I load bcm43xx I see in dmesg that it's loaded, but I get no wlan0 or eth1 device! iwconfig says there's no devices.

Any ideas?

PS. Thanks!

Bapman · 2008-06-13 21:28:53

Sorry I don't have this chip. Maybe you should create a new post for this issue.

By the way latest post is A10 !

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ST.x · 2008-06-26 20:51:36

The A11 bios is out on here: http://supportapj.dell.com/support/down … eid=261036

hmm not sure when linux version comes out.

rumil · 2008-06-26 21:00:14

ST.x wrote:

The A11 bios is out on here: http://supportapj.dell.com/support/down … eid=261036
hmm not sure when linux version comes out.

Yeah, everybody _especially with nvidia_ should upgrade since (supposedly) it fixes power management issues and should help (recently so widely discussed) overheating issues.

And a question concerning multimedia keys: I use evdev as Xorg's keyboard driver (with kdb it was the same) - pressing multimedia key gave me multiple key events and I had to disable autorepeat (xset -r keykode) to make it work as expected - wiki doesn't say anything about it, so I mention here
Although this helped me, I don't now why turning off autorepeat for sleep and battery button made them not generate key events (or at least xev not showing them...) - so currently they do nothing Any idea why?

Bapman · 2008-06-27 03:04:47

Great news about this bios. Maybe this is why my touchpad is burning my fingers sometimes !

rumil wrote:

ST.x wrote:
hmm not sure when linux version comes out.
Yeah, everybody _especially with nvidia_ should upgrade since (supposedly) it fixes power management issues and should help (recently so widely discussed) overheating issues.
And a question concerning multimedia keys: I use evdev as Xorg's keyboard driver (with kdb it was the same) - pressing multimedia key gave me multiple key events and I had to disable autorepeat (xset -r keykode) to make it work as expected - wiki doesn't say anything about it, so I mention here
Although this helped me, I don't now why turning off autorepeat for sleep and battery button made them not generate key events (or at least xev not showing them...) - so currently they do nothing Any idea why?

Weird behavior. Everything worked out of the box with the "keyboard" driver. Maybe you should report this issue elsewhere on the forum.

ST.x · 2008-06-27 05:22:59

Well I just installed arch on this lappy, and am having problems connecting to WPA2 wifi connection. From reading around I have figured out that wpa_supplicant and netcfg2 is the best method?

Bapman · 2008-06-27 14:44:10

Yes it is ! See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_profiles.

ST.x · 2008-06-29 00:04:01

This is what i've found so far(posted in another thread on the networking board), Just wondering if you guys had similar problems with wpa_supplicant although netcfg2 is doing well since wifi is working perfectly its just when I go to reboot/halt I have to manually stop the connection:

Okay that works but I also found that if I didn't use netcfg to stop the profile manually, I couldn't reboot/halt the system and after typing 'reboot' I think the wpa_supplicant is just killed or crashes and the system is stuck on '> Rebooting'. I had to use 'netcfg2 -d abc' to stop the profile then reboot.

Well yep just confirming that it's wpa_supplicant just crashing and it prints some random stuff, also since arch is stuck at '> Rebooting' I have to hard power it down. Thinking of trying wpa_supplicant beta: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17370

My wpa_supplicant.conf:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
#fast_reauth=0
#ap_scan=0

#DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel

# My home network
network={
        ssid="*snip*"
        #psk=*snip*
        psk=*snip*
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        proto=WPA2
        pairwise=CCMP
        group=CCMP
}

netcfg profile:

CONNECTION="wireless"
INTERFACE="wlan0"
HOSTNAME="*snip*"

# AP authentication
SCAN="yes"
SECURITY="wpa-config"
WPA_CONF="/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"
WPA_OPTS="-Dwext -B"
ESSID=*snip*

# IP address
IP="dhcp"
DHCP_TIMEOUT=10

Also wondering in rc.conf did you also remove comment out INTERFACES=(..) and just leave <interface_name>="dhcp". I also commented out gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"

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ST.x · 2008-06-29 04:09:32

Also wondering if you have iwl4965 in your MODULES list in rc.conf, I don't have it at the moment and its working dunno if it makes a difference to my other problem above.
Btw, I updated to the new bios A11 without and hassles.

Last edited by ST.x (2008-06-29 04:10:51)

ST.x · 2008-07-01 11:14:30

I saw that i8kutils and i8kmon is used for temps and fan speed. Im having confusion using these, how did you guys set these up to display temps. I googled and found a way for ubuntu though:

Controlling fan speed

Install the i8kutils package and load the i8k module with:

modprobe i8k force=1

You can control the fan speed by running i8kmon and see the current temperature and fan speed by doing:

cat /proc/i8k

which will return in order:

1. BIOS version
2. serial number
3. CPU temperature
4. fan status
5. fan rotation speed (only on some models)
6. ac power status
7. volume buttons status (not the multimedia buttons)

And also http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … ost5275415

EDIT: the wifi problems posted above seem to be okay now.

Last edited by ST.x (2008-07-01 18:40:26)

ST.x · 2008-07-03 05:04:53

So is anyone using the i8kmon? I partially have it working with the help of that ubuntu thread I posted above. I had to do things like putting 'options i8k force=1' to modprobe.conf, added i8k to MODULES and i8kmon to DAEMONS in rc.conf and also changing some stuff in /etc/i8kutils/i8kmon.conf.

But only one core is displayed from 'cat /proc/i8k' and I can't make out what some of the other info is. I think the ability to check the temps and fan speeds is important for this lappy after all the reports of the overheating gpu and such even though the new bios is supposed to help. That also reminds me, wouldn't running something like the i8kfan disrupt how the BIOS handles the fans. Does anyone use lmsensors for this laptop? I just want to be able to check the temps of both cores, mobo and also for nvidia gpu(i think thats i2c?) hmm is it better to have these discussions on the wiki discussion page or here?

cheers

Last edited by ST.x (2008-07-03 05:11:28)

Bapman · 2008-07-03 17:48:37

I am not on my laptop right now but I think I also installed lm_sensors to monitor the temperature under Gnome (with the sensor applet).

For the GPU temp, I use the one give by the nvidia app (nvidia-settings if I remember well) from the proprietary drivers.

And yes I think the forum is a better place to discuss this !

Last edited by Bapman (2008-07-03 17:49:11)

rumil · 2008-07-03 19:44:28

Yep, monitoring CPU temp works with lm_sensors (throw coretemp module). To monitor GPU temperature you can also (aside from nvidia-settings) use nvclock (nvclock -i | grep temp)

ST.x · 2008-07-04 00:28:04

ok awesome guys, so i8k modules/i8kmon aren't needed or do you have that installed as well still?

Bapman · 2008-07-04 01:01:34

You can leave i8k if you want to tweak your fans.

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