Dell Vostro 1720

= Hardware information =

PCI devices
PCI devices

Timing buffered disk reads
Timing buffered disk reads

Hardware list
Hardware list

= Hardware configuration =

make.profile
profile

Real Time Clock
The system was delivered with the clock 1 hour too early. This is fixed with the following command: fixing wrong system time Unless this is done already from the install CD/USB before creating any files on the partitions, let the system rest for 1 hour around the time that the command above is executed, so that real time passes the time that the sytem already reached. Otherwise building things with for example make may give strange errors (because files may be seen as newer than their dependencies even when they are older).

I2C bus
There does not seem to be anything useful on this bus, but sensors-detect (see next section) wants the modules to exist, so that it can look for sensors there. Compiling the drivers directly into the kernel seems to confuse sensors-detect.

Core temperature sensors
To be able to get the core temperatures (for example using the command "sensors"), first install and configure sys-apps/lm_sensors. Unfortunately there is a bug (#282261) that the unmasked versions are broken and the working versions are masked. So a working version has to be unmasked. sensors-detect will create /etc/conf.d/lm_sensors based on what it finds in your hardware. configure lm_sensors

USB Controller
Make sure that EHCI is loaded before UHCI (see bug #260139):

SD Host controller
The sdhci-pci module must be loaded already so that a card is detected when it is inserted. Add it to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6.

Mass storage controller
The mmc_block module will be loaded automatically when a SD-card is inserted.

dbus
make sure that dbus is started (needed by KDM)

HAL
HAL must be configured before xorg is started. Otherwise the display manager will not accept any input and the system has to be turned off by holding down the power button for 4 seconds.

Change "se" to your keyboard layout code.

make sure that hal is restarted (to read the new configuration)

xorg
Before startig xorg, make sure that HAL has been configured (and started). See above.