From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MeF0e-0006ah-QX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:17:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D772E036E; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:17:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f218.google.com (mail-ew0-f218.google.com [209.85.219.218]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0341AE036E for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:17:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy18 with SMTP id 18so238741ewy.14 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:17:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=QoVEIv4yy9PODLP3B58y6sRtPSl9z0ENTTZ8QSbMwts=; b=IJg3r0EF8fuP1EcQLhSCgFcyc07KLh3/0pFYyzsyhtOJnLO3uk75MK7MxLWFCrhRJb KmhxWglR8Xbi1NgEPZp8M79lZczCzXLI8eMkT/bhL64P6BVHJR1JyununxbrRoKB9l97 EsBSlA7rzVi+6nfrIMLkUpz8GENoA2AqvVtQk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=H3mNKTfeg+3Ow1sN7KBQZ5M235X2EO6BUw7Buabcsn6M7bppLXBISwtFZQF5F1iTdt HiyJEHr1ADyPzHrz+VWZP74d5nWvkKTRpgKQA4iII7G1EUpiIAe+5rrlD+AcwEHVwf3w 9+5SAZAPllRMbhFgNjfXbYguW9A2oJtfHJ2iQ= Received: by 10.210.111.5 with SMTP id j5mr323836ebc.32.1250803042121; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.145]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm1202859eyf.8.2009.08.20.14.17.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:17:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Determining hardware on Dell Vostro 1520 Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:15:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.0 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.3.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <58965d8a0908201344o13ce8acfr78ecddde7338e26a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0908201344o13ce8acfr78ecddde7338e26a@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200908202315.57643.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 8c98a950-ebdb-46e8-8c0a-2f290066e69d X-Archives-Hash: 841e0500b1a529568dcfb3c164b80c61 On Thursday 20 August 2009 22:44:10 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: > > Hi, > > I got a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop as a present, and I am trying to build > > a kernel for it. I can't determine what hardware I've got on it, since > > the specs > > (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/vos1520/en/SM/specs.htm) > > say it could be installed in a few different configurations. What drivers > > do I need the bluetooth (connected by a mini-card, don't know what it > > means), touchpad, camera and fingerprint (if there are any, of course)? > > Luckily, I think all of those (except for fingerprint reader -- no > idea about that) are very generic kinds of devices. Thinkfinger deals with the fingerprint reader, the docs tell you which module to use. It's easy to set up and use, it's very hard to configure it *exactly* right - it always involves getting low down with PAM. For instance, I have one and it logs me in fine. But I run a local IMAP server for my mail (to use multiple mail clients) and dovecot uses PAM auth. Every minute when kmail checks the inbox, dovecot (pam actually) silently waits for a finger swipe. I reckoned it was much easier to unload the reader module and type a password once into a wallet than to deal with pam. Everyone I know has to re-learn everything about pam all over again every time they go near it... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com