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Last updated: Apr 10th, 2006
General Hardware Specifications of DELL Inspiron 9400:
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Hardware Components |
Status under Linux |
Notes |
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INTEL Centrino T2400 Dual Core 1,83 GHz |
Works |
SMP Kernel needs to be installed. |
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17'' WUXGA Display |
Works |
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ATI Mobility Raedon X1400 |
no accelleration, only VESA |
At the moment, there is no driver for this card. VESA works with 1024x780 :-/ |
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2 GB, SDRAM, 2DIMMs |
Works |
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100 GB SATA Hard Drive |
Works |
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100 Mbit LAN: Broadcom |
Works |
Works out-of-the-box. Kernel PCI Broadcom driver used. |
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Internal V.92 Modem: Conexant HDA D110 MDV |
??? |
Not tested. |
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Internal 8X DVD +/- RW |
Works |
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Internal WLAN: Intel Pro WLAN 3945 Internal Wireless for Duo Processors |
Works |
You have to download the driver from INTEL and compile your own kernel. (Didn't try WPA. WEP works fine.) |
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Internal Bluetooth module |
Works |
out-of-the-box. |
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80 Whr / 9 Cell Lithium-Ion Battery |
Works |
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Internal sound: INTEL High definition AUDIO |
Works (partially) |
No special procedure required if using Kernel 2.6.15.X It stopped working with Kernel 2.6.16.2, but I think that will be fixed soon. |
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Memory-Card-Slot (Memory Stick, MMC, xD): Ricoh |
??? |
Not tested. |
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IEEE 1394: OHCI |
seems to work |
dmesg says everything is ok, but I couldn't test the hardware. |
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Touchpad |
Works (partially) |
I didn't get the horizontal scrolling bar working. But I also didn't try to fix it. |
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ACPI |
Works (partially) |
CPU-Frequency-Scaling works fine, but the „conservative“ governor seems to make problems. |
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USB |
Works |
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This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.16.2
INSTALLATION
General
The installation works out-of-the box, but gdm will give an error after booting.
LAN and Bluetooth work instantly.
ATI Graphics
The ATI drivers aren't ready yet. So you have to use the vesa driver by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf :/
WLAN
Download original driver from INTEL. Read and follow the installation instructions as described here in short:
Download ieee80211 from www.sourceforge.net
Build your own kernel WITHOUT ieee80211 support. Boot it.
In the ieee80211-subdirectory do make && make install. („y“ to „delete old modules“)
Now copy the INTEL Firmware to /lib/firmware (the INSTALL-Document by INTEL wants to use hotplug. Don't use the document here.)
type „make“ in the driver and daemon subdirectories. Copy the daemon to /sbin.
Go into the driver subdir and type „./load“ . If everything works, you copy the .ko-Module to /lib/modules/KERNEL-VERSION and do a „depmod -a“.
Wonderful. We're done.
Unresolved issues
ATI Graphics
Touchpad: horizontal scrolling bar
Sound in newer kernels
Test firewire and Memory-Slot
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