dell xps m1530

venky80 · 2008-05-10 10:08:11

extremely bad flash video performance and mp3s in amarok breaks .
I have installed the latest nvidia graphics , I am also having issues with keyboard keys behaving inconsistently and touchpad is as good as useless as the mouse keeps moving.
please share the fixes if there are any.
Thanks

Feynman · 2008-05-16 05:15:20

Touchpad fix -- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4770585

venky80 · 2008-06-23 20:03:36

anyone able to get multimedia touch keys to work?

josomebody · 2008-06-23 20:46:14

anyone able to get multimedia touch keys to work?

Find the keycodes by running showkey in a vtty not running x (ctrl+alt+F6 should get you to one) and hitting the keys you want to set. Use those codes to set up xbindkeys. Write a .xbindkeysrc file in your home folder with your settings in it and edit your .xinitrc to run xbindkeys when you startx.

venky80 · 2008-06-23 21:13:28

do you have an XPS M1530 ?

josomebody · 2008-06-23 21:26:30

No, but that's a good general way to do it.

venky80 · 2008-06-23 22:00:51

I don't exactly remember but I think i tried it with xbindkeys

venky80 · 2008-06-24 03:26:10

well the keys do not have keycodes and cannot be bound with xbindkeysrc

venky80 · 2008-06-24 04:26:40

I have added the following
button/lid)
#echo "LID switched!">/dev/tty5
/usr/sbin/pm-suspend
;;
to /etc/acpi/handler.sh now the laptop suspends but when i open the lid it is unable to recover and goes into suspend again, is there anyway to fix it?

jbromley · 2008-06-24 05:17:27

venky80 wrote:

I have added the following
button/lid)
#echo "LID switched!">/dev/tty5
/usr/sbin/pm-suspend
;;
to /etc/acpi/handler.sh now the laptop suspends but when i open the lid it is unable to recover and goes into suspend again, is there anyway to fix it?

You get lid events both when you open and close the lid. You need to check that the lid is closed and only then do pm-suspend. Here is my ACPI script for lid events:

#!/bin/sh
# Suspend if the lid is closing
grep -q closed /proc/acpi/button/lid/*/state
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
    pm-suspend
fi

If you replace your /usr/sbin/pm-suspend line with the non-comment lines of my script, you should be ok.

jbromley · 2008-06-24 05:21:38

venky80 wrote:

well the keys do not have keycodes and cannot be bound with xbindkeysrc

I've been considering getting an XPS 1530 (or a ThinkPad T61.) What multimedia keys does the 1530 have? Do they not generate scan codes when you run showkey at a virtual terminal? My Inspiron 9300 has a couple of these weird Fn+F{1-12} keys that cannot be mapped and it's annoying. If the 1530's multimedia keys are really not mappable keys that would be a real bummer. It looks like I'll have to find one at Best Buy or something and try it with a Linux live CD.

Thanks.

venky80 · 2008-06-24 14:33:18

There are touch sensitive keys for volume and rewind forward etc.
All they generate is @ symbol

I am finding a new problem, my screen doesn't dim when i go to battery , This happens after I come out of hibernate, also the LCD doesn't switch off after the stipulated time.
This works perfectly if the settings are applied and system is never hibernated. I am using laptop-mode with pm-utils to do it.
My distro is KDEMOD 4.1 beta, it seems the screen dim stuff in laptop mode doesn't work.

Last edited by venky80 (2008-06-24 14:37:20)

jbromley · 2008-06-25 03:56:41

With respect to the LCD not dimming when you go to battery, perhaps there is a BIOS setting. Some Dell laptops only allow you to control the LCD through BIOS settings and not through software (i.e. /proc/acpi...) For the LCD DPMS problem, does it occur after suspend or hibernate, or both? It seems odd that it should happen after a hibernate since your video hardware has to initialize itself like it normally does in the boot sequence. If you have this problem after resuming from a suspend, perhaps you might try using one of the quirks, like --quirk-vbe-post.

iggy · 2008-06-25 15:27:09

hey guys!

i don't know if it will work also for a m1530, but i'm a owner of the m1330! i got everything to work!!!
for the multimedia-touch-keys i use esekeyd. works out of the box.
for lcd problems - i can adjust these settings through the bios (different values for battery and ac).
the fn-keys work with following commands:

# map media keys
# Fn-F1 (sleep)
setkeycodes e00a 123
# Fn-F3 (battery)
#setkeycodes e007 236
# home button
setkeycodes e012 172
# wifi detector button
setkeycodes e011 238

i hope it helps you!

bye iggy

Last edited by iggy (2008-06-25 15:27:32)

venky80 · 2008-07-03 14:41:29

Anyone here has a clean feature laden xorg.conf file for XPS M1530 nvidia 8600GT?
nvidia-xconfig craps out and i hate the xorg.conf mess it produces. Maybe someone who is anal about xorg.conf can help

ST.x · 2008-07-05 08:48:06

venky80 wrote:

Anyone here has a clean feature laden xorg.conf file for XPS M1530 nvidia 8600GT?
nvidia-xconfig craps out and i hate the xorg.conf mess it produces. Maybe someone who is anal about xorg.conf can help

Just go through these two: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg and http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA and add the features you need and that will be the cleanest way, hmm on my m1330 xconfig didn't produce anything messy but I went those two wiki pages and added extra stuff like the powermizer.

Last edited by ST.x (2008-07-05 08:48:26)

kiker99 · 2008-07-09 20:35:08

Got a m1330, but I think it will be the same! This config is working beautifully. Got everything running except for mobile broadband but it SHOULD work with some more effort.

EDIT: mobile broadband working too! i'll post a blog entry about how to do it soon.

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Thu Feb 14 18:20:37 PST 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "touchpad" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "touchpad"
    Driver         "synaptics"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option         "LeftEdge" "1700"
    Option         "RightEdge" "5300"
    Option         "TopEdge" "1700"
    Option         "BottomEdge" "4400"
    Option         "FingerLow" "25"
    Option         "FingerHigh" "30"
    Option         "MaxTapTime" "180"
    Option         "MaxTapMove" "220"
    Option         "VertScrollDelta" "100"
    Option         "MinSpeed" "0.06"
    Option         "MaxSpeed" "0.12"
    Option         "AccelFactor" "0.0010"
    Option         "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "de"
    Option         "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option         "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "True"
    Option         "Coolbits" "1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    Modes       "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Last edited by kiker99 (2008-07-10 15:53:49)

venky80 · 2008-07-11 22:17:44

Does anyone here know how to internally record sounds in dell m 1530?
I mean I want to copy an audio stream using the sound card internally

kclive18 · 2008-07-14 00:44:49

Do you have a line in port on your laptop? If not, you could probably also plug in an audio source into the pink mic port (not too sure if this would work, but worth a try).

venky80 · 2008-07-14 06:03:15

well that is for if i want to use some external device, what about internally recording something which is playing in the computer? for example sound playing from youtube or streaming radio or skype conversations, how can I record those?

kclive18 · 2008-07-14 14:25:40

You could use Audacity for this by selecting "Stereo Mix" on the Input Selector on the Mixer toolbar.

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