Bug#383315: debian-installer: successful install on Dell Latitude D810: notes
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Boot method: netinst CD
Image version: d-i b3 from link in d-i b3 availability announcement
Date: August 15, 2006
Machine: Dell Latitude D810
Processor: P4 2 GHz
Memory: 1GB
Partitions:
fdisk -l:
/dev/sda1 1 7 56196 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 8 13 48195 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 14 987 7823655 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 988 7296 50677042+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 988 6143 41415538+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda6 6144 7047 7261348+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda7 7048 7296 2000061 82 Linux swap / Solaris
lvscan:
ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/u1' [6.00 GB] inherit
ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/home' [6.00 GB] inherit
ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/etch-root' [6.00 GB] inherit
ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/vmware' [12.00 GB] inherit
mount:
/dev/mapper/vg1-etch--root on / type xfs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda2 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/mapper/vg1-home on /home type xfs (rw)
/dev/mapper/vg1-u1 on /u1 type xfs (rw)
/dev/mapper/vg1-vmware on /vg1/vmware type xfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=10M,mode=0755)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
----- lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Radeon Mobility M300]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI6515 Cardbus Controller
03:01.5 Communication controller: Texas Instruments PCI6515 SmartCard Controller
03:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection (rev 05)
------ lspci -n
00:00.0 0600: 8086:2590 (rev 03)
00:01.0 0604: 8086:2591 (rev 03)
00:1c.0 0604: 8086:2660 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:2658 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:2659 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:265a (rev 03)
00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:265b (rev 03)
00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:265c (rev 03)
00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev d3)
00:1e.2 0401: 8086:266e (rev 03)
00:1e.3 0703: 8086:266d (rev 03)
00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2641 (rev 03)
00:1f.2 0101: 8086:2653 (rev 03)
01:00.0 0300: 1002:5460
02:00.0 0200: 14e4:1677 (rev 01)
03:01.0 0607: 104c:8036
03:01.5 0780: 104c:8038
03:03.0 0280: 8086:4223 (rev 05)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O]
Comments/Problems:
Some of these comments go beyond the scope of debian-installer, but
many of them don't. I'm being more inclusive here toward the goal
that I should have a fully operational system after the initial boot
after running debian-installer. Some of the problems have to do with
non-free firmware, etc., but these can be mitigated with documentation
if nothing else.
I needed to pass "vga=771 libata.atapi_enabled=1" as additional boot
arguments. vga=771 was listed in the special machines section of the
help, but libata.atapi_enabled=1 was pointed out to me only in a
response to a previous installation report. If this isn't fixed, I
would recommend adding this to the notes that the user sees when
hitting F3 from the main boot screen.
This laptop has builtin wireless (ipw2200) and a built-in ethernet
card. The wired LAN card worked, but the wireless did not, probably
because of the lack of non-free firmware and possibly also because the
kernel has an old version of the ipw2200 driver. It took a google
search to figure out about the firmware (though I am quite aware of
the non-free firmware issue in debian). Once I downloaded and
installed the firmware, the wireless worked, but it worked poorly.
(In contrast, it works perfectly with dapper.) I manually installed
the latest ipw2200 driver from sourceforge, and now wireless seems to
be working as well as on dapper.
Sound was not configured at all when I first booted and logged in, so
I had to run alsaconf. Once I did this, sound worked perfectly. I
had to manually append pcspkr to /etc/modules to get the PC speaker to
work.
This laptop has the eraser-head mouse and a touchpad. With the
xorg.conf that was generated by dexconf, the eraser-head mouse worked
well, but the touchpad was so slow that moving your finger all the way
across the pad resulted in moving the cursor only about 50 pixels.
I'm not much of a mouse user and don't care about all the fancy stuff
with the synaptics touchpad. If I simply commented out the synaptics
stuff from xorg.conf, the behavior of the eraser and touchpad were
both fine.
So, there are still a few rough edges to be smoothed out for this
machine to install and work perfectly out of the box, but it was
really close. Now everything works, which means I can finally run
debian instead of Ubuntu on my laptop like I've wanted to for some
time. (Yes, I probably could have gotten it to work before, but it
would have a lot more trouble.)
One caution about dapper vs. etch: there was a regression in dapper
about X performance on this machine. Breezy and etch both have X
configurations that work well, but on dapper, the display performance
is very poor. I hope that this isn't the result of dapper having
newer drivers such that I can look forward to a degradation of
performance on etch too....
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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