Re: Dell E6330

Adrian Chadd <[email protected]>
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On 27 July 2014 06:16, Matthias Apitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> El día Sunday, July 27, 2014 a las 01:51:45PM +0200, Christian Laursen escribió:
>
>> I have a DELL Latitude E5430 and it looks like a fair deal of the
>> hardware is similar:
>>
>> $ dmesg | grep iwn
>> iwn0: <Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300> mem 0xf7e00000-0xf7e01fff irq 17
>> at device 0.0 on pci2
>>
>> $ grep intel /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "HD Gra"
>> [    25.914] (--) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) HD
>> Graphics 4000
>
> Thanks for your feedback. I could get access in my company to an older
> Latitude E6330 with an i5 CPU. It seems to use a similar chipset:
>
> $ fgrep iwn0 dmesg.e6630
> iwn0: <Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205> mem 0xf7d00000-0xf7d01fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2
>
> $ grep intel Xorg.0.log.e6630  | grep "HD Gra"
> [   119.614] (--) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000
>
> I booted it from a prepared USB stick containing a complete system,
> compiled ports, Xorg and KDE4 and all went up fine, as well the WLAN came up.
>
> I think I will order it (they asked only some 730 Euro for the used
> item, including varanty).
>
> Btw: it's a pitty that the laptop compatibility list is down already for
> years :-(
>
>>
>>
>> Wi-fi and graphics are what I am usually most worried about on laptops
>> and both of these work fine under 9.3-RELEASE.
>>
>> The only thing I am missing is the ability to change the backlight
>> level. It's probably possible but I haven't figured out how yet.
>
> I had a similar issue with sound lower/up/off/on and had to use on my
> Acer Aspire some xmodmap tweakings:
>
> xmodmap -e "keycode 174 = F21"    # volume down
> xmodmap -e "keycode 176 = F22"    # volume up
> xmodmap -e "keycode 140 = F23"    # volume mute
>
> HIH
>
>         matthias
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