Dell Vostro 1720

[dimoftheyard]

Ok, now sleep and hybernate work as well, using the closed source nvidia-driver instead of the default (nv?). It just keeps getting better...

[moted1]

@dimoftheyard

Mind posting the hardware specs of your 1720? I gathered that you went with the Nvidia graphics card, but I'm curious to see what else 'works out of the box.'


Thanks.

[cmreigrut]

The keyboard/touchpad issue is a known problem. To fix it, simply add the following to your kernel options (which is usually in /boot/grub/menu.lst):

i8042.reset noapic

[Vesperatus]

cmreigrut, i will try that right away.

any reason the keyboard / trackpad would start working at the second reboot ?!

[Vesperatus]

Thanks for the tip by the way. That solved my issue with the laptop keyboard and trackpad not being detected.

[dimoftheyard]

Hello,

I'm sorry to post in this old thread. I have a Dell Vostro 1720 with Jaunty and tried to upgrade alsa to get sound working. I tried to avoid compiling it myself and instead installed alsa-base and alsa-utils from Karmic. But after rebooting cat /proc/asound/version still says "Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.18rc3". Can anybody tell me what I need to install, apart from these two packages?

[dimoftheyard]

@moted1

I'm sorry, I should read in the forum more often. My Vostro 1720 has:
- Intel® Core™2 Duo Prozessor P8700,
- no fingerprint reader, so I can't say whether it works,
- the smaller display (1400x900),
- the webcam (I'm not quite sure what kind it is, but you can choose only one, and it works fine),
- 4GB of Ram, which work fine with the server kernel,
- 512 MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 9600M GS Graphic Card Black,
- the "Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Tray Load Drive", so not the BlueRay drive,
- no bluetooth,
- the "Intel Pro Wireless WI-FI 5100 (802.11a/g/Draft-n) MiniCard, European", which was not the default, at least when I bought the laptop. The wireless, too, works fine without any configuration with both WEP and WPA.
I'm sorry to answer so late and hope my post helps somewhat, nonetheless.

[Vesperatus]

Can you post the result of lspci.

I will see If I have the same sound card than you on my 1720.

[dimoftheyard]

lspci says:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9600M GS (rev a1)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
0e:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100
1a:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Device 10f7 (rev 01)
1a:00.1 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Device 8120 (rev 01)
1a:00.2 Mass storage controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Device 8130 (rev 01)

Thank you for looking at this.

[Vesperatus]

lspci says:
Thank you for looking at this.

I'll post my spec tomorrow morning when I start my laptop. I'm just too lazy to open my bag tonight