{"id":323,"date":"2008-12-10T19:19:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T17:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2008-12-11T13:32:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T11:32:41","slug":"debian-on-a-dell-e4300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Debian on a Dell E4300"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received a new laptop, a Dell Latitude E4300. I was a bit anxious with its level of support on Linux, because it only recently started being shipping, and it’s full of recent Intel hardware. Also, with lenny being frozen for 5 months, we are currently a bit behind regarding hardware support.<\/p>\n

I installed lenny on it, as I usually run testing+APT pinning<\/a>. What I’m describing here is what is unsupported in lenny out of the box.<\/p>\n

Wireless:<\/b>
\n Needs a 2.6.27 kernel (iwlagn<\/code> driver), Lenny only has 2.6.26. Downloaded from the kernel team’s unofficial repo<\/a>. Firmware isn’t packaged in Debian (firmware-iwlwifi<\/code> needs an update). Needed to download it from Intel.<\/p>\n

Graphics:<\/b>
\n Intel device, unsupported with lenny’s driver (but vesa works surprisingly well, oI only noticed that I was using vesa when I tried to play a video and found out I had no xv support).
\n Works with experimental’s Xorg and the experimental intel driver, but that Xorg needs some polishing. The evdev driver now handles all inputs, so the keymap has to be configured differently (as usual, #debian-x people were very helpful).<\/p>\n

Suspend\/Resume:<\/b>
\n Works out of the box using pm-utils. No need for quirks.<\/p>\n

All in all, it was easier than I expected, and support will probably be perfect for lenny+1\/2 ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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