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#1 2008-08-04 14:34:28

kanim
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[Solved] Dell XPS M1330 lots of problems...

hi,

I often installed arch on many different machines but never on an Laptop today i tried to install it on my New Dell XPS M1330 and nothing realy works... first i dried to get wlan to work...but no succes but that not the big problem... after doing:

pacman -Syu

i did :

pacman -S xorg-server
pacman -S gnome gnome-extras
pacman -S nvidia

Everything went fine an installed

than i tried to start gdm

/etc/rc.d/gdm start

it startedt but i had no keyboard an no mosue (usb mouse) in X

then i did 

nvidia-xconfig

still the same

i installed synaptics

pacman -S synaptics

and used a xconfig of another m1330 user from this forum heś claiming everything works here's the XF86Config:

# 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

started x again

mouse(us) didn't worked touchpad did worked but the keyboard still does not work in X

maybe i did something wrong but i havent found anyone with this problem even in m1330 article in the wiki theres nothing about an issue with the keyboard...

i hope somone can help couse i realy only use arch an want it to work on my laptop too

Last edited by kanim (2008-08-11 21:57:47)

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#2 2008-08-04 14:46:42

esters
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Re: [Solved] Dell XPS M1330 lots of problems...

Hey kanim, could you please paste lspci output ? I know how you feel, because I'm struggling also to get Arch work smoothly on laptop. I think the Driver "keyboard" should be replaced with Driver "kbd"
Here's my xorg.conf, you may find it usefull smile

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#3 2008-08-04 15:02:24

kanim
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Re: [Solved] Dell XPS M1330 lots of problems...

kbd changed nothing still no keyboard...

and i can't post the output how should i doo it ? i have no X

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#4 2008-08-04 15:11:43

esters
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Re: [Solved] Dell XPS M1330 lots of problems...

When I'm at framebuffer I use links and open this page http://pastebin.ca/upload.php , before that I have already dumped the lspci output ( lspci > file ) and wrote the path to the file in the link I gave, after that i write down the submission number and that's it.

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#5 2008-08-04 15:32:47

kanim
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Re: [Solved] Dell XPS M1330 lots of problems...

ok that was a easy one smile thx for the info

here is the output:
http://pastebin.ca/1092578

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#6 2008-08-04 15:46:03

esters
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Re: [Solved] Dell XPS M1330 lots of problems...

BTW, you could do that also with Xorg; cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i EE and paste it smile

According to this page your wifi card is supported, try to load the iwl4965 module, and try ifconfig -a. More info on Wifi is found in Here

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#7 2008-08-04 16:34:03

kanim
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Re: [Solved] Dell XPS M1330 lots of problems...

yes my card is supported i think wlan isn´t that big problem and it is not as important as to have an keyboard tongue
hmm... as its only not working in X there must be an mistake in the config... but i have no guess where..

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#8 2008-08-04 16:39:27

esters
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Re: [Solved] Dell XPS M1330 lots of problems...

Em, what errors does X give you when you start it ? ; cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i EE > xorg and upload it to pastebin.ca

Just for the record - have you got xf86-input-keyboard and xkeyboard-config packages installed ?

Last edited by esters (2008-08-04 16:48:41)

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#9 2008-08-04 16:53:02

kanim
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Re: [Solved] Dell XPS M1330 lots of problems...

yes your last guess was right...

i installed xorg-sever instead of xorg tongue sry for that keyboard issue... i founded it out by typing in startx and nothing happend i thought i need to have installed something wrong...

ok now only the usb mouse and the wlan does not work

esters thx for your support you allready helped me realy out..^^

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#10 2008-08-04 17:08:29

esters
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Re: [Solved] Dell XPS M1330 lots of problems...

Thanks smile

Btw, speaking about the issue with USB Mouse - try the entries from my xorg.conf (Look above), Mine Logitech NX50 works fine with it.

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#11 2008-08-04 17:12:07

kanim
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Re: [Solved] Dell XPS M1330 lots of problems...

Ok USB mouse is working now no only wlan + some things i noticed tongue battery-display of gnome-panel does not work and i haven't tried suspend but i heard there are big problems with it..

Edit: battery-thing is solved installed acpid and started it via /etc/rc.d/acpid start iam addin it to rc.conf

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#12 2008-08-04 17:16:59

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Re: [Solved] Dell XPS M1330 lots of problems...

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup

Does that help your wlan problem?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_M1330 could also be very informative.

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#13 2008-08-04 17:18:25

esters
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Re: [Solved] Dell XPS M1330 lots of problems...

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pm-utils is the tools of the trade, I think on nVidia based laptops it is much easier. Just check the wiki.

I have made an article about my Laptop and Arch Linux, Maybe you find something needed - http://esters.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/ … msung-r20/

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#14 2008-08-04 18:24:24

kanim
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Re: [Solved] Dell XPS M1330 lots of problems...

i solved the wlan problem it was realy easy with networkmanager(http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager)

so know it looks like this

working:
wlan (now with netcfg2)
mouse/keyboard/touchpad
battery-status
cpu-scaling
webcam (a bit slow but ok)
suspend/wakeup
finngerprint
mediakeys

Last edited by kanim (2008-08-11 21:57:14)

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