E6410 Owner's Thread

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They usually have a proper English translation available within a few days too.

 

Thanks for the translation.

 

Thanks for the link.

I doubt if any other 14" display is significantly better.

There's something strange about the Windows performance index graphics results: The Intel GPU in my E6400 is scoring 4.1 and 3.8 under Win7-64.

John

 

I don't really understand what you mean, do you mean you have 2x E6400 with Intel GPU and both have different values?
If you mean that the index switch between values, than:
- It's probably Intel playing with the benchmark to try and get a better score.

In any case:
You can run Nv GPU Pro under Win7, and you will have the option (the only option as you don't have an Nvidia GPU) to see detail benchmark information of the Windows Experience Index benchmark. For example, it will show you this in the program.
WEI Score

 

Let me be more explicit:
Graphics (Desktop performance for Windows Aero) = 4.1
Gaming graphics (3D business and gaming graphics performance) = 3.8

The notebookcheck review of the E6410 is reporting 2.4 and 2.5 respectively for these two tests.

John

 

I have E6410 running Fedora 13. Almost everything works very well, though the driver for the Alps touch-pad does not yet recognize scrolling commands.

A major problem I had at first while testing running the default graphical login and running OpenBox or gnome was that it crashed if I plugged in an external monitor or projector (though they work fine with windows 7, which I don't use, except for testing). Also full-screen flash did not work with the latest flash (Flash 10, tested in Firefox).

Both of those problems go away if I disable graphical login by editing /etc/inittab to specify runlevel 3 instead of the default runlevel 5. I then do a console login at the prompt, and run startx, having edited ~/.xinitrc to specify the window manager I want (e.g. OpenBox or Ctwm), the number of virtual desktops, which windows I want to start with, etc.

If I do that then whether I use Openbox or Ctwm, I can plug in external monitor (both hi-res wide screen, and old 1280x1024 work) and use the command 'xrandr --auto' to get both my screen and the monitor working OK.

I have no idea why this fails with graphical login. I expect it requires some change to xorg drivers for intel graphics, or some other software change. It seems that enough people are buying new Dell E6--- to encourage developers to fix things.

I have more details of my experiences in a messy web page here
LINUX ON MY DELL LATITUDE LAPTOP

Aaron
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Aaron, I fought with Fedora and Ubuntu on my E4300 with Intel graphics as well. It seems as though the linux Intel driver just isn't all that great and full featured as of yet. I have an E6410 on the way for myself with the Nvidia GPU to test with, I'm guessing the binary Nvidia driver will work much better.

 

It's a combo port, which works very nicely as a USB port, at least after you get used to it.

The SD card slot on the E6410 is spring loaded. Once the card is inserted, it is very nearly flush

I'm guessing that the painted black screen cover was prone to scratches and fingerprints. I can confirm the gray lid is indeed metal, and while it looks like brushed stainless steel, it doesn't pick up fingerprints like stainless steel. It's most certainly some sort of light alloy, and the brushed treatment, although I suspect that there must be some sort of finish over the bare metal.

There's nothing "cheap" about the outward material quality of the E6410. None of my issues pertained to the case, which incidentally, was extremely robust and well thought out.

 

My E6400 has that port, and the port hole of the base of the laptop is nicely cut so that you can fit eSATA and USB (tried both), without seeing the port naked.

That would be the E6400, its clearly visible that the E6410 has something sticking out around the SD slot. I get why they did this, so that the SD slot is visible.

I don't like it... I want black like my E6400. They have all these E6400 lids in black, why not have an option?!

 

Dillio187
In retrospect I suspect that the nvidia would have worked better for me.
However, the Intel card clearly has the potential to work very nicely (for someone who dos not play computer games), and it is nearly there with the current xorg intel driver. I assume it will be improved since lots of people will be using the intel graphics option.

At present fullscreen video (e.g. BBC iplayer or news) works better on my E6410 on linux (fedora 13) with the intel graphic card than my older PC does with Nvidia GEForce 6200, also running fedora 13.

Today I discovered that instead of dealing with the horrors of xrandr commands I can use the very nice 'lxrandr' command which brings up a menu allowing me to set the resolution of my laptop and the external monitor separately, as the Win7 resolution tool does.

I just have to be sure not to leave the monitor cable plugged in to the E6410 when booting.

I assume you will report your experiences here.