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 1MeEUV-0007nL-PH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:44:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6547E0528; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:44:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f207.google.com (mail-gx0-f207.google.com [209.85.217.207]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D83E0528 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:44:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so231147gxk.14 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:44:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+keH1E1+Wba6MGBC2Cp147quhm69bpc3/nn9cKxmfRQ=; b=wn6XRRGN1WEO2aKV3BajSfaVMWVWZSGzBqsXeEYersifimqgD7vHHV3bZTLUwZU4jP qK6KlRO+VuQ8FiAdC1NSck8WFd8B2TKHr9MdzzpVA6CWEaFQTLiMtykdK+bXg8EGblRq TP6jAjsA1EUvRQKRgi2xUe67gS19MGRJW19wY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=oQ84i9/EOAzynyNVmfK7b+F+hwvEy2k3IDSc7aNvxPSAkBG0mQ1NPd+FTGYssQMYGJ XPy3+RDen7d334AyzOpv0+/HKTNQhN9lCK6fJ06GVHjmSAm0KiJzqbWomnPQCNTCgxvn yAOA3bFH1yptjHu7axlJ9Z90CP7U9fy3JwkjM= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.169.13 with SMTP id r13mr600343ybe.89.1250801050318; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:44:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:44:10 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: f9bb2a1ef2f7b8a6 Message-ID: <58965d8a0908201344o13ce8acfr78ecddde7338e26a@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Determining hardware on Dell Vostro 1520 From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b96b5b0c-b2ba-4de2-be32-0445bde06e1e X-Archives-Hash: cc462ce708ac0511e8cf9327112d2793 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. Bluetooth has its issues in Linux but drivers are not one of them. In a laptop it's probably a part of the wifi card, and you've probably got a button to turn bluetooth off and on. How to actually use the bluetooth is another story (I still haven't gotten it to work in KDE4). Basically enable the bluetooth stuff in kernel and emerge "bluez"... beyond that is very dependent on what you actually intend to use it for (wireless headphones? input devices? file transfer from cell phone? modem? etc) Your webcam most likely is UVC so you can use that driver (in v4l section of kernel config). Touchpad should work in X.org with x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics package, and there are Gnome & KDE config programs for setting up all the features.