Bug#639728: Dell Latitude E6520: bad fstab entry, unsupported network controller
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 02:10:07PM -0400, Michael Gold wrote:
> Package: installation-reports
> Version: 2.45
> Severity: wishlist
>
> -- Package-specific info:
>
> Boot method: USB
> Image version: debian-6.0.1a-amd64-i386-netinst.iso (SHA1 fec4209384a78f304817ee8f6a4ce89acbb57e21)
> Date: 2011-07-14T09:41-0400
>
> Machine: Dell Latitude E6520
> Partitions:
> Disk /dev/sda: 60801 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
>
> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 0+ 243- 243- 1951744 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 243+ 60801- 60559- 486432768 8e Linux LVM
> /dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
> /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
>
>
> Base System Installation Checklist:
> [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
>
> Initial boot: [O]
> Detect network card: [E]
> Configure network: [O]
> Detect CD: [O] (see comments)
> Load installer modules: [O]
> Detect hard drives: [O]
> Partition hard drives: [O]
> Install base system: [O]
> Clock/timezone setup: [O]
> User/password setup: [O]
> Install tasks: [O]
> Install boot loader: [O]
> Overall install: [O]
>
> Comments/Problems:
>
> I wanted to install Debian unstable, but there are no cryptographic
> signatures on the unstable installer snapshots, so I installed the
> newest stable release and upgraded. I had to connect an ethernet dongle
> because the onboard network port wasn't detected by the installer; the
> onboard port worked after upgrading to unstable.
>
> After installation, I was initially unable to select my LCD's native
> resolution via xrandr. The onboard nVidia controller doesn't seem to be
> supported by KMS/X, so X had fallen back to the VESA driver. I enabled
> "Optimus" in the BIOS (even though the BIOS's help text claims this will
> only work with Windows), and an additional Intel video chip appeared in
> the lspci output:
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09)
> Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0494]
> Kernel driver in use: i915
>
> With Optimus enabled, X will ignore the nVidia chip and use the Intel
> chip which does have proper modesetting support.
>
> I installed from a USB storage device, and the installer wrote an fstab
> entry for /dev/sdb with mountpoint /dev/cdrom0 and type "udf,iso9660"
> (the real DVD drive was listed as /dev/cdrom1). This prevented GNOME
> from mounting FAT-formatted USB storage devices. The installer
> shouldn't write an fstab entry for an installation device that's
> connected via USB.
Optimus has no linux support at this time. No idea if it ever will.
Your network controller device was added in Linux 2.6.35, so no support
in Squeeze's 2.6.32 kernel at this time unless it is backported.
--
Len Sorensen
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