DellLatitudeC610

Current Issues

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System Info

bios-version:A14, A16 for the feisty testing
system-manufacturer:Dell Computer Corporation
system-product-name:Latitude C610
system-version:Not Specified

Hardware details

in Edgy (current stable)?

in Feisty (current stable)

Installation works?

Yes

Yes

Hardware Information

Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

in Edgy (current stable)

in Feisty (current stable)

Screen

Yes

Yes

Correct resolution?

Yes

Yes

Correct refresh rate?

Yes

Yes

3D Acceleration

Yes

Yes

External monitor works?

Yes

Yes

External monitor - mirrors

Yes

Yes

External monitor - extend desktop

No

Untested

Svideo Out

Untested

Yes (see notes)

Power Management

Battery detected?

Yes

Yes

Hibernates?

Yes

Yes

Sleep

Yes / No with BIOS A16

Yes

Dim monitor on battery

Yes

Yes

Blank monitor on inactivity

Yes

Yes

Lid Close

See Notes

Yes

Cpu frequency scaling

Yes

Yes

Sound

Sound works?

Yes

Yes

Correct volume?

Yes

Yes

Hardware volume switch

Yes

Yes

Headphone jack

Yes

Yes

Mic jack

Yes

Yes and Integrated mic works too

Networking

Wired NIC

Yes

Yes

Wireless NIC

N/A

N/A

PCMCIA NIC

Yes

Yes

Firewire

N/A

N/A

Bluetooth

N/A

N/A

Modem

Untested

Untested

Infrared

Untested

Untested

Touchpad & Mice

Touchpad

Yes

Yes

Touchpad - Doubletap = double click

Yes

Yes

Touchpad - Scroll down side

Yes

Yes

Touchpad - turned off while typing

No

No

External mouse - USB

Yes

Yes

External mouse - Serial

Untested

Untested

Docking Station/Port Replicator

AC through replicator

Yes

Yes

USB

Yes

Yes

Serial

Untested

Untested

Parallel

Untested

Untested

External Monitor - VGA

Yes

Yes

External Monitor - DVI

Untested

Untested

Modem

Untested

Untested

NIC

Yes

Yes

PS/2

Yes

Yes

Additional Hardware

Fingerprint reader

N/A

N/A

CD/DVD drive

Yes

Yes

PCMCIA cards

Yes

Yes

Parallel Ports

N/A

Yes

Card reader(s)

N/A

N/A

Function and other keys

Fn key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Edgy (current stable)

in Feisty (current stable)

+ Esc

Suspend

No

Yes (but it does kill my wireless connection, and I have to cycle it out)

+ F1

Setup

No

No

+ F3

Battery

No

No

+ F5

See Notes

No

No

+ F7

Font

No

No

+ F8

CRT/LCD

Yes

Yes

+ F10

Eject CD

Yes

Yes

+ ArrowUp

Brightness +

Yes

Yes

+ ArrowDown

Brightness -

Yes

Yes

+ ArrowRight

Contrast -

Yes

Ends up just being brightness

+ ArrowLeft

Contrast +

Yes

Ends up just being brightness

+ PgUp

Volume +

Yes

Yes

+ PgDown

Volume -

Yes

Yes

+ End

Mute/Unmute

Yes

Yes

Edgy Notes

  • The X server restarts itself when the lid is closed and then opened. This defeats the purpose, as any open applications get killed in the process.
  • I'm not sure what Fn+F5 is. The icon is two boxes, side-by-side, with an A in them, separated by a slash. The right box is an colour-inverted version of the left. Any ideas?
  • With BIOS version A16 it refuses to come out of sleep. The screen shows corrupted rubbish and the Num Lock and Caps Lock LEDs flash. (I've checked my RAM which is working fine.)

Feisty Notes

  • When the lid gets closed it locks the screen and asks for a password when you get back
  • With bios version A16 it now comes out of sleep in feisty.
  • If you have the Mobility Radeon, both the ati and the radeon drivers work, I'm running the ati driver at the moment and it works with most low level opengl apps. As for this isn't the best. I can run basic opengl games, but don't expect anything great the ati drivers aren't the best. If you have the nvidia board, you probably have a bit better drivers. But since both boards are only 16 megs don't expect much.
  • Beryl is not an option at all with the ATI Card, if you want to play with it, the way it will work is if in your xorg.cfg you set your video memory to 32, but then still extremely slow and isn't quite stable since you are pretty much saying you twice as much video memory as you really have.
  • To get SVIDEO working on the radeon mobility please refer to this article: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Radeon7500TVOut?highlight=%28atitvout%29


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