Dell Vostro V13 - Salix

[ray]

Hi,

I've just got a shiny new Vostro V13 and i've installed salix on it.
Pretty much everything works out of the box, including wifi & webcam!

Three cheers to you guys!

Now, i do have a couple of problems,

1. Laptop doesnt seem to resume on re-opening my lid.It suspends properly, but doesnt resume.
2. The bluetooth indicator is always on, i've removed bluetooth from the startup services, but its still on.
3. Coming over from zenwalk, i do miss the gui tool we had to add/remove modules and enable laptopmode.
Can you tell me how i can enable laptop mode through the commandline?
4. The touchpad works perfectly, but no scrolling. And i see that there isnt a xorg.conf file, how do i configure the synaptic settings in this case?

Also, pidgin doesnt seem to be compiled with video-chat support, i'm trying to compile the latest version myself, but it would be nice if it was working out of the box as well.

I'm trying to find solutions to these myself, but i'd appreciate if someone had answers.

Thanks,
ray

[gapan]

1. Laptop doesnt seem to resume on re-opening my lid.It suspends properly, but doesnt resume.

Did you add a resume option in your /etc/lilo.conf append line? One like this:

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resume=/dev/sda3

if your swap is in sda3. Also, make sure your swap is at least as big as your RAM.

2. The bluetooth indicator is always on, i've removed bluetooth from the startup services, but its still on.

You can probably unload the bluetooth modules to turn it off.

3. Coming over from zenwalk, i do miss the gui tool we had to add/remove modules and enable laptopmode.
Can you tell me how i can enable laptop mode through the commandline?

That gui tool is completely unnecessary and downright dangerous. It allows people that have absolutely no idea what they're doing, load and unload kernel modules, which should only be done by someone who knows exactly what he wants. Concerning the "laptop mode", if you can explain what that is, then it would be very easy to tell you what to do.

4. The touchpad works perfectly, but no scrolling. And i see that there isnt a xorg.conf file, how do i configure the synaptic settings in this case?

You can create a xorg.conf if you want to. Or add an appopriate HAL rule in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi. Here's mine, so you have something to get started:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
      <match key="info.product" contains="Synaptics TouchPad">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
      </match>
      <match key="info.product" contains="AlpsPS/2 ALPS">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
      </match>
      <match key="info.product" contains="appletouch">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
      </match>
      <match key="info.product" contains="bcm5974">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
      </match>

          <merge key="input.x11_options.MinSpeed" type="string">0.1</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxSpeed" type="string">0.7</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.AccelFactor" type="string">0.003</merge>

      <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">on</merge>

      <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">2</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">3</merge>
          
          <merge key="input.x11_options.FingerLow" type="string">20</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.FingerHigh" type="string">30</merge>
          
          <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxTapTime" type="string">200</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxTapMove" type="string">250</merge>
          
      <merge key="input.x11_options.VertEdgeScroll" type="string">true</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.VerteScrollDelta" type="string">2</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll" type="string">true</merge>

      <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizEdgeScroll" type="string">true</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizScrollDelta" type="string">1</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizTwoFingerScroll" type="string">true</merge>

      <merge key="input.x11_options.CircularScrolling" type="string">true</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.CircScrollTrigger" type="string">8</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.CircScrollDelta" type="string">0.1</merge>

      <merge key="input.x11_options.LeftEdge" type="string">2000</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.TopEdge" type="string">2000</merge>
        
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

Or you can use synclient to configure your touchpad with the same options.

[ray]

Hi,

The suspend is working fine after a couple of reboots, not sure what changed though.
As for laptop mode, it is a special mode which allows saving power.
I installed the laptopmode tools from here: http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/
But, afaik it is available in the kernel as well, and the kernel modules gui in zenwalk had the option to turn it on.

As for the touchpad, i'll try this out and see.

EDIT: The bluetooth module isnt loaded, after i removed it from the startup services, but the led is still on? Any advice?

Thanks,
ray

[gapan]

As for laptop mode, it is a special mode which allows saving power.

By doing what? I'm guessing that all it does is to change the cpu governor that is used, but if you have a laptop, in Salix you're using the ondemand governor anyway by default, so there's nothing to change there.

EDIT: The bluetooth module isnt loaded, after i removed it from the startup services, but the led is still on? Any advice?

If bluetooth is not working anyway, then it might just be a case that the kernel simply cannot switch that led off, even when having bluetooth disabled.

[ray]

@gapan,

It actually governs the hard drive as well, by spinning it down when its not in use.
Not sure what else it does, and I'm no expert, but i have noticed that i get better battery life when i enable laptop mode.

Thanks,
ray

[gapan]

It actually governs the hard drive as well, by spinning it down when its not in use.

That only tells me that the zenwalk kernel is not properly configured for laptops and you need a manual tweak to make battery usage more efficient.

[ray]

Interestingly, my touchpad doesnt seem to be deteched properly at all,
here's the xorg.log

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(II) config/hal: Adding input device Macintosh mouse button emulation
(II) LoadModule: "evdev"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//evdev_drv.so
(II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.6.3, module version = 2.2.5
	Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
	ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 4.0
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: always reports core events
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Device: "/dev/input/event0"
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Found 3 mouse buttons
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Found x and y relative axes
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Configuring as mouse
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Macintosh mouse button emulation" (type: MOUSE)
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: (accel) set acceleration profile 0
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: initialized for relative axes.
(II) config/hal: Adding input device PS/2 Generic Mouse
(**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: always reports core events
(**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event10"
(II) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Found 3 mouse buttons
(II) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Found x and y relative axes
(II) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Configuring as mouse
(**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "PS/2 Generic Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
(**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00
(**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms
(**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) set acceleration profile 0
(II) PS/2 Generic Mouse: initialized for relative axes.

I dont have any mice connected to this laptop, yet it seems to have found a mouse?
Not sure whats happening at all? Anyone have any idea?

Thanks,
ray

[JRD]

touchpad could be detected as a mouse : depends on how hardware is done.
Could say anything more, sorry.

[EaglePrince]

EDIT: The bluetooth module isnt loaded, after i removed it from the startup services, but the led is still on? Any advice?

Thanks,
ray

Hi there,

Just in case you're still having trouble with this, disable Bluetooth in your wireless setting in the BIOS menu. I have a Dell vostro 1700 and a mini 10v, and this is what I did with them....although the mini has no wireless/BT LEDs