Dell Inspiron 6000

sigix · Apprentice Joined: 25 Jul 2003 Posts: 192

I have installed xine on my system but when movie is played, video quality is very low
sound is working fine.

VinzC · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject:

seppelrockt · Guru Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 423

VinzC · Last edited by VinzC on Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:10 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hey, Gnome guys, have you noticed your Dell multimedia (volume) buttons are now supported in Gnome? I've had a nice surprise when I saw the master volume was off. I then accidentally pressed the leftmost button on my Dell's front panel ("Mute/Unmute") and I saw an OSD little graphics showing master volume state

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I think this new support was introduced with recent Alsa changes. But I have no clue on when this change was introduced.

EDIT: I think I'm late for I've just tried yesterday my M$ Natural Keyboard multimedia buttons and I saw exactly the same OSD under Gnome 2.10 with the master volume state... Of course I had to reconfigure my keyboard's key bindings but at least that works. So I have absolutely no idea on when and how this got supported.
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masterinferno · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 236 Location: France

Hi everybody,

1- I read the whole thread about X300 and DRI , but I didn't find out the solution..

I emerged the latest xorg 7, GCC 3.4, gentoo-sources-2.6.14 with agpgart, intel-agp, and fglrx modules autoloaded (in this order).

My Xorg.log tells me DRI is successfully loaded, but with glxinfo I still get "Direct Rendering: No" and under Gnome, it crashes the whole laptop (hard reboot needed)... because it uses Glitz/OpenGL/Dri...

2- My Alt & Alt-GR keys don't work, and I think it's a KBD error...

Here is my xorg.conf (it's very very light, because it's very dirty with all comments....)

VinzC · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:22 am Post subject:

I see

masterinferno · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 236 Location: France

No i'm using it now because fglrx keeps on crashing...

Did I forget something important in xorg.conf ? maybe you want my kernel .config ?

For the keyboard problem, when I start Gnome, there is an error message which ask me to run
xprop -root | grep XKB

geekounet · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 6:39 pm Post subject:

Hello everybody !

I used to ask about how to use the modem in a previous post. Here are my results : you just have to enable CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0M in the kernel, and emerge slmodem, and normally it should work. But in fact not, slmodem don't seem to work anymore on the last 2.6 kernels. So, i'm blocked here.

Now, I'm wondering how to use an external screen in 1024x768 resolution mode while I'm in 1280x800 on the LFP ? I have an i915GM graphic card. I will need it for videoprojection at school in a few time.

Thanks.

VinzC · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 7:20 pm Post subject:

VinzC · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 7:26 pm Post subject:

seppelrockt · Guru Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 423

VinzC

VinzC · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:05 pm Post subject:

Anyone tried suspend2-2.2-r15 for kernel 2.6.15-rc7? It's not in portage yet but I'm looking forward to seeing it there for I won't downgrade from 2.6.15_rc7

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VinzC · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:14 pm Post subject:

masterinferno · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 236 Location: France

I've got the same error message when I try to change via gnome-keyboard...

For example, I try to get FR layout, and the message pops up...

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VinzC · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:41 pm Post subject:

Try commenting out the

masterinferno · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 236 Location: France

Great it worked

And now, what do you think of my third question ? about multimedia keys ? Maybe I should modify an option in Gconf editor ? or a file I could edit ?
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VinzC · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:20 am Post subject:

seppelrockt · Guru Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 423

For the KDE people here I found an easy was to use at least the mute / volume up /volume down keys at the front of the notebook. You simply have to go to the KDE control center and in the keybord layout section you can change the keyboard type to notebook/Dell Inspiron 8xxx (drop down menu in the upper right).

Now you can configure global short cuts for kmix for mute / volume up/down inside kmix by pressing the appropriate buttons for each.

Can somebody help me out in another problem? To solve by screen blanc problem (screen doesn't come back after I shut the lit) I want to assign a script that simply calls "vbetool dpms on" when I press Fn + Esc (or Fn +F1) to bring the screen back. But I do not get keycodes for this keys and don't know how to call a script by key press anyway.

geekounet · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 3:28 pm Post subject:

For the multimedia keys, I simply put the following in my xorg.conf in the keyboard section :

VinzC · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:50 am Post subject:

amaroc · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Nov 2005 Posts: 99

seppelrockt · Guru Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 423

EDIT: Thanks amaroc, LID works not with the script. I didn't used acpid before, simply had to emerge it and put the default.sh on the right place (and chmod +x ;-)

).

Can somebody tell me how I can find detailed infos about my hard disk from within linux (something like lspci for hard disk). I need the vendor and model string to check whether it is a true SATA drive or an IDE drive with SATA bridge (want to replace the hd soon and reuse it in an external case). Thanks.

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