On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 08:00:16PM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: > If you have one of these new-ish Dell laptops, maybe we can help each other.
I have a Dell Lattitude E6410. > > 1. Don't bother with Debian Squeeze. The newer kernel from Mine is a bit older so Squeeze works and putting the laptop to sleep and waking it up works. > > 1. The touchpad "sorta" works. The system sees it as a PS/2 mouse, I had so much trouble with the touchpad that I disabled it in the bios to be able to work. I just had enough of a jumping cursor which disrupts my work. > 2. The keyboard is weird. Compared to previous laptops I've had, it is > almost awful. Because the screen is so wide, they decided to add a My keyboard was giving me a lot of trouble when the computer was stressed (loadaverage > 1.0) to such an extent that I could not keep on working when high level of IO was taking place in the background. I experienced problems like repeating characters or a lack of reaction from the keyboard. A hint from another user using Fedora on a HP who had similar problems convinced me to try an external usb-keyboard. That helped me to keep on working even when background tasks like database dumps, indexing and backups were pushing up the loadaverage. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit Stellenbosch. "Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." Isaiah 41:10 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110608085643.ga16...@sun.ac.za