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 1MeEb7-0000g2-M3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:51:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2912E0304; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:51:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f172.google.com (mail-yw0-f172.google.com [209.85.211.172]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC08E0304 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:51:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh2 with SMTP id 2so486307ywh.2 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:51:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=F7sX3pxpFNHw2Fu0JxJi7OBuwkKXeYyLLymQkGwo4uY=; b=coihTxjoTOQnLnqGdWW7waj7JQpwqv9zMHGvbwT6+epgo6BUqPQIs3wWeLpQlrHwQl brOhKTfuA4xP3zPnkDnzEqxYEzYisXz9mKXXF/j9RFk0zk6B9cdAw1/a9JVDEKxD4sOp WWTQU/faCHKCNGtdZJowE5L0lA8mY3l0voebU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=cs8xW4Y2P0N52IdqAbCcqRyflJTYz9HmygdAzK3CVCPrOD62yccB2988rLvb8t11Ta DLjPD+67DYrEePETqeYfd3a2oyNFtHfHtQL14V+uYG5B5lCizyS3NrAwj5pm+BTR6TsM 12gRNq44zLQKrEBemz191s7UXp2My+8QHN36s= Received: by 10.90.216.7 with SMTP id o7mr243988agg.45.1250801460244; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.164.214? (r164h214.dixie-net.com [64.89.164.214]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm2840888agd.73.2009.08.20.13.50.58 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A8DB72F.9050804@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:50:55 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090628 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Determining hardware on Dell Vostro 1520 References: <4A8DB531.2050708@gmail.com> <58965d8a0908201344w35b48efcn47bafeaacc82905c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0908201344w35b48efcn47bafeaacc82905c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7bbb62af-f840-4d2c-b19d-bdb409bf5113 X-Archives-Hash: 36c9082271df293598be63333eb8ce03 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Dale wrote: > >> 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)? >>> I tried 'lspci', it gave me no clue regarding the above hardware and >>> is as follow: >>> << SNIP >> >>> >>> any help would be appreciated. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Try the command lspci -v from the install CD and see what drivers the CD >> uses. That is assuming you can boot the CD and it works of course. >> >> If the output is to large, most likely it will be, try this: lspci -v | >> less . You can replace less with more if you prefer. >> > > Or "lspci -k" which will tell you which kernel module is in use by > each device. :) > > > Heck with that, the output is MUCH shorter. -v can get pretty long sometimes. < Dale makes a note of this in hope he won't forget > < Dale is not holding his breath tho > ;-) Dale :-) :-)