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• Latitude E6530 (wheezy)

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Models covered
Dell Latitude E6530

Hardware options:
- Video card (Intel HD or nVidia NVS 5200M)
- Screen size 15" 1920x1080 Full HD)
- Wireless card - Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205
- 750GB 2.5' WD Black, 16GB DDR3 1600Mhz
- Fingerprint reader
- Bluetooth
- Smart Card Reader
- 2MP Full HD Integrated Web camera

Overall Status

Legend :
= OK ; Unsupported(No Driver) ; = Error (Couldn't get it working); [?] Unknown, Not Test ; [-] Not-applicable
= Configuration Required; = Only works with a non-free driver and or firmware

Important Note

Configuration

Wheezy installs flawlessly in EFI mode. Legacy boot was not tested. The system runs perfectly in dual screen Full HD (1920x1080 on each).

Display

• Works out of the box with free driver. nVidia proprietary driver was also installed and is working flawlessly.

  • To install the nVidia proprietary driver follow instructions on that package's wiki page. After installation install the nvidia-xconfig package and run it from a terminal. This will generate the initial XConfig file.

Audio

• Works out of the box with ALSA.

Mouse

• Laptop TrackPoint and TrackPad work out of the box.

  This may have been true for original creator of this page, but unlikely to be majority experience. Able to install so xserver-xorg-input-synaptics detects TrackPad accurately, but touch signal is erratic when multi-touch is used (i.e. 2-finger scroll, 3-finger zoom, 3-finger right-click, etc.).

  Experience across the web shows many issues with Latitude TrackPad - i.e. primarily touch/gesture related (see: Launchpad #1228471 and Launchpad #606238 - would've used Debian Bug record but getting Internal Server Error on search). Solution of adding Sid/unstable repository for latest (1.7.3-1+b1 according to reportbug) xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package, essentially results in a dist-upgrade due to dependencies. Given closed nature of firmware, unlikely to be resolved in package until hardware closer to obsolete, or not at all.

Power Management

• Hibernation was not tested. Everything else works out of the box.

WiFi

• The Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 works, but requires non-free firmware - firmware-iwlwifi

Modem

• No modem in the tested system.

HotKeys

• Disable Touchpad hotkey (Fn+F5) doesn't work Unable to adjust screen brightness via keyboard hotkeys. This also doens't work from the Gnome control panel - currently I cannot change screen brightness while booted. This works from BIOS. There is a related Linux kernel issue. Lock hotkey (Fn+F3) does not work. Sleep hotkey (Fn+F1) works OK. 'Calc' and media hotkeys work ok with Rythmbox. All other hotkeys that are not mentioned here work.

SmartCard and Fingerprint Readers

• The machine comes with an optional "Broadcom BCM5880 Secure Applications Processor with fingerprint swipe sensor". These was not tested.

Will add results if I ever use those.

System Summary

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller [8086:0154] (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port [8086:0151] (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:1e31] (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 [8086:1e3a] (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1502] (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 [8086:1e2d] (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1e20] (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:1e10] (rev c4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:1e12] (rev c4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:1e14] (rev c4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 [8086:1e16] (rev c4)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 [8086:1e1a] (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 [8086:1e26] (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation QM77 Express Chipset LPC Controller [8086:1e55] (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:1e03] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller [8086:1e22] (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:0dfc] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:0bea] (rev a1)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] [8086:0082] (rev 34)
0c:00.0 SD Host controller [0805]: O2 Micro, Inc. Device [1217:8221] (rev 05)

lsusb

lsusb -v | grep -E '\<(Bus|iProduct|bDeviceClass|bDeviceProtocol)' 2>/dev/null

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Single TT
  iProduct                2 xHCI Host Controller
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         3 
  iProduct                2 xHCI Host Controller
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 EHCI Host Controller
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 EHCI Host Controller
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Single TT
  iProduct                0 
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Single TT
  iProduct                0 
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:c05a Logitech, Inc. Optical Mouse M90
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceProtocol         0 
  iProduct                2 USB Optical Mouse
      (Bus Powered)
  (Bus Powered)
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 413c:8197 Dell Computer Corp. 
  bDeviceClass          255 Vendor Specific Class
  bDeviceProtocol         1 
  iProduct                2 BCM20702A0
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0c45:648b Microdia 
  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
  iProduct                1 Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_E4HD
      (Bus Powered)
  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
  (Bus Powered)
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0a5c:5801 Broadcom Corp. BCM5880 Secure Applications Processor with fingerprint swipe sensor
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceProtocol         0 
  iProduct                2 5880
  (Bus Powered)

USB Host controllers entries (without OHCI, UHCI, EHCI) are removed too.

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