Dell Latitude X1

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Contents 1 Hardware 2 Hardware Status Overview 3 Dell Laptop guides 4 Generic Laptop guides 5 Troubleshooting 5.1 BIOS Update 5.2 Repeated Keystrokes 5.3 Contrast / Brightness problem

[edit] Hardware

12,1 inch display @ 1280x768
Intel Pentium M
Intel 915GM chipset (ICH6)
Up to 2 GB RAM  	
Intel GMA 900
ALPS GlidePoint touchpad and trackpoint
Toshiba hard drive
NEC DVD+/-RW optical drive
Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet
Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG / 2915ABG or Dell TrueMobile 1300 wifi
Dell TrueMobile 350 Bluetooth
Conexant AC'97 modem
Intel AC'97 Audio
USB 2.0
Texas Instruments SmartCard reader
Ricoh RL5c476 II PC Card controller
Ricoh R5C552 Firewire controller
Ricoh R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro adapter

The notebook is identical with the Samsung Q30.

[edit] Hardware Status Overview

	Device	Working	Driver	Troubleshooting
Processor	Processor
Drives and Storage	Hard Drive		ata_piix
	Optical Drive		ata_piix
	Firewire		ohci1394
	Compact Flash	unknown
	SD and MMC card readers		sdhci
USB	USB		uhci, ehci
Graphics	Intel		i915, intel	See below
Input Devices	Keyboard		keyboard
	Touchpad		synaptics
	Trackstick		evdev
	Functions Keys
Networking	Ethernet		tg3
	WLAN: Intel		ipw2200
	WLAN: Dell		b43, ndiswrapper
	Modem	unknown	snd-intel8x0m
	Bluetooth		hci_usb
Sound	Sound		snd-intel8x0
Other	PC Card	unknown	yenta_socket
	Smartcard Reader	unknown
	Hardware Sensors	unknown	i8k
	Suspend to RAM	unknown
	Suspend to Disk	unknown

[edit] Dell Laptop guides

Dell specific laptop guides:

• Dell Function Keys
• Dell Hardware Sensors
• Dell BIOS Upgrade
• Dell Utility / System Restore / MediaDirect
• Dell Docking Station

[edit] Generic Laptop guides

Some generic laptop guides:

• ACPI
• Power Management

[edit] Troubleshooting

[edit] BIOS Update

Dell has release a couple of BIOS updates, addressing some issues and adding some features (changelog). But beware! Some people have reported a serious performance issue with versions A03 and later, where the CPU frequency (or the maximum CPU frequency if CPU frequency scaling is active) is lowered when the temperature reaches 70 degrees celsius. Downgrading to version A02 is a solution if you have this problem.

[edit] Repeated Keystrokes

If you experience that the system repeats your keystrokes many times, you may want to consider not using the ondemand CPU frequency policy with cpufreqd. I experienced repeated keystrokes every time the system increased the CPU speed (e.g. the enter key was repeated when typing "emacs<ENTER>").

[edit] Contrast / Brightness problem

• The graphics driver seems to have a problem with contrast/brightness of xvideo overlays. The default value of the contrast attribute should be 64, but most applications will set it to 128. Install xvattr with the gtk useflag enabled, which offers a commandline tool and graphical frontend to change Xvideo attributes. For the frontend, run gxvattr; for setting the value via shell, run xvattr -a XV_CONTRAST -v 64.