M4800 Owners : Linux Problems. Finding Drivers.

I think RHEL worked because that's the distro supported/shipped by Dell when you ask for Linux.


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Does the SD card reader work well for you?

I have a M6800 and the SD card reader is from O2Micro [1217:8520]. It is currently not yet supported by Linux.

Also, @ThinkingMonkey mentioned about touchpad issue. I had a similar problem that about once in an hour, the touchpad acts randomly for a second. And dmesg message says "psmouse serio1: DualPoint TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1" -- I searched online and it looks subtle problem. Is it the same problem for you?

For wifi I by purpose ordered the Intel one. This page may have some information though. b43 - Linux Wireless

 

has anyone tried external montors with this yet.

no problems i suppose

 

Doesn't matter now. Found some drivers. Not tested the drivers completely though.

I will be going in for Fedora 20 just waiting for the final release. I believe it is around 20th December.

 

RHEL did not work for me! WRT the wireless drivers.

 

Have not tested the card reader.

Dunnno, what the exact issue with the touch pad is. But the behavior is the similar to what you describe. Will post back a dmesg o/p when possible.

I probably will be buying the intel one separately. The intel 7260 was not available available in my country at the time of my purchase.

 

Found Some Fedora wireless drivers.

Complete guide: HOWTO Use Broadcom Wireless Cards in Fedora 14/15/16

Simple Installation instructions : sudo yum install akmod-wl.x86_64 broadcom-wl.noarch

It shows up networks. But I am out of station( so no passwords available for the networks) to test it. It did show up the wifi hotspot that I set up through my phone(Android). Did not connect to it though.

 

Glad to here there is a problem with the touchpad driver! I thought that it was my fault, touching it by accident while typing.

The touchpad seems more sensitive than in Windows, but it got better when I started tweaking the settings with synclient(1).

I also got the two finger scrolling working (Mac/Ipad reverse style). I have to put my two fingers about 3 mm apart, which I don't like, but it works.

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tar (LTS development version). But the only problem I had with an older Ubuntu was that GCC 4.7 couldn't compile a certain program (it's a Haswell issue fixed in later GCC versions).

 

Could you please be so kind to post the ID of the card reader in your M4800?

Or maybe the complete output of lsusb ?
That would allow us to check if the card reader is the same as in the M6800 and if there are drivers for it.

 

I am not sure if M4800 has the same problem, but in case SD card reader doesn't work under linux (as I got in M6800), here is a solution at #3 of

http://forum.notebookreview.com/lin...ion-m6800-linux-guide-review.html#post9490679