Dell Inspiron 6000 and Gentoo Linux. 04.02.2006 17:04
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Here I'm going to document what I have done so far and what more needs to be done...

Here is my system profile:

  • 1.86 Ghz Pentium M.
  • 1 GB RAM.
  • 100GB HDD.
  • ATI M300 Graphic Card. (128 MB)
  • 15.4" WUXGA+ LCD (1920x1200)
  • DVD Burner.
  • Broadcom Ethernet Card (10/100)
  • Intel PRO/Wireless card.
  • Dell Bluetooth integrated.
  • SD/MMC reader (Ricoh)
  • Touchpad (Synaptics)

Working list so far: (03/07/2006)
ATI 2D works with xorg ati drivers. Never tested 3D
Installed the factory ATI drivers 8.22.5 following this howto. Works great! (100%)
Wireless card works great with ipw2200 driver. (even the led) (100%)
Bluetooth works great (this is a usb card btw...) (100%)
Touchpad works great. (100%)
Suspend to RAM (Working on it. It suspends, but doesn't wakeup...) (20%)
Suspend to RAM is now working with the new gentoo-2.6.15-r7 kernel and fglrx drivers! I'll put my suspend script online soon. (%100)
Ethernet works great (100%) DVD support is OK. I can read the DVD but still cannot set the DMA. (it is a known problem waiting to be fixed in my queue) (50%)

I will make a detailed howto for each one of them later...

TODO:

  • Kismet
  • e17
  • DVD burning test
  • DVD DMA activation.
  • MMC card reader test
  • ATI offical driver install
UPDATE: I had a Logitech USB camera. I wanted to try out if I could make it work. I works perfectly with the new pwc drivers. YAY! I also have some major updates on other stuff on the laptop. I will compile a document soon! 

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xXx <email-hidden> - 11.22.2006 08:43
yes, It's work :D
it's work ^^
Paul Wayper <email-hidden> - 11.25.2006 21:14
DMA on DVD drive
I'm also having the same problem with the DVD drive. Under Windows it plays back fine, so I know that it's possible to enable the DMA, but under Linux doing hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc says "Operation not permitted". I thought this might be a SELinux problem (I'm running FC6) but no messages show up in the log.