Dell Latitude D830
CentOS 5.2 64bit
Hardware
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz
4096 MB RAM (3947.33 MB usable by CentOS)
Bios A13
320 GB WD Scorpio Black Edition 7200RPM
15.4" 1920x1200
lspci output :
- Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
- Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
- Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
- Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
Installation
Works out of the box :
- Xorg : 1920x1200 resolution automatically detected, "i810" driver used according to /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Suspend to RAM : NEVER fails !!! better than Ubuntu 8.04 !
- Suspend to Disk
- Compiz : OK (except for memory leak ??), but need to use X11 output instead of Xv for MPlayer (and VLC too) which degrades performance in full-screen
- Sound
- CD and DVD writing
Works after a little tweaking :
- Wireless : using iwlwifi (see below)
- Freetype bytecode rendering is disabled by default due to US patent restrictions.See below how to enable it.
Sound buttons (volume up, down and mute) : use System-->Preferences-->Keyboard Shortcuts. Choose the feature and simply hit the correct key to make it work.
Doesn't work (yet) :
Fans : not detected by ACPI which means they are always on
Didn't check (yet):
built-in smartcard reader from O2Micro
- built-in fingerprint reader(have to test thinkfinger package from RPMForge)
- bluetooth
Storage:
- AHCI was set in the bios prior to installation
- hdparm : 76MB/s
- Added noatime,nodiratime in /etc/fstab
Wireless
The RHEL 5.3 beta kernel (http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5/) includes iwlwifi which is much better than the old ipw3945 module available from RPMforge. Everything that worked out of the box using the CentOS kernel is still working.
Installation:
- Install the latest 5.3 beta kernel (currently 2.6.18-128.el5)
Dowload iwlwifi-3945-ucode-15.28.2.8.tgz from http://intellinuxwireless.org
- Copy iwlwifi-3945-2.2.ucode to /lib/firmware and rename it to iwlwifi-3945-2.1.ucode
Enable NetworkManager :
chkconfig NetworkManager on
- chkconfig network off
- service network off
service NetworkManager start
Third-party applications
Enabled RPMforge repository. (MPlayer, ...)
Added vpnc and NetworkManager-vpnc packages from EPEL repository
Adobe Reader 8 (32 bit): acroread browser plugin : 100% CPU solved by checking the proxy option but leaving it empty
Adobe Flash (64 bit alpha version)
Skype (32 bit)
OpenOffice 3.0 (64 bit)
Sun Java (64 bit)
Fonts
TODO: how to install msttcorefonts
Freetype is needed to display TrueType fonts but the version installed by default has bytecode rendering disabled due to US patent restrictions.
TODO : how to enable bytecode rendering
Printing
Need to use browser interface to use Windows printer in domain (otherwise password removed from URI with the gnome configuration tool)
