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Have you found a solution to get the Smart Card reader to work by now?

I'm just starting to look into getting my M4800 to run with Debian or (X)ubuntu.

Cheers

  Mike

Got Nvidia video drivers installed. Screen looks good but cannot set to a lower resolution(1920x1080)! Screen overflows! i.e. I can only see about 25~30% of a fully maximized window rest overflows out of the screen. If anyone was able to set this up properly, please share your xorg.conf. I believe this is a panning issue. Am I right? 

My solution:
1. turn off NVIDIA Optimus at BIOS, and then install a Linux distro (mine is Debian wheezy 7.3.0),
2. download NVIDIA K2100M driver from : http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
3. and run the driver with sudo in init 3 text-mode environment : http://rolling-ubuntu.blogspot.com/2012/06/ubuntu-1204-tip-booting-to-text-mode.html 
4. most probably NVIDIA installer will request you to install gcc, make, kernel headers, etc, so you just follow the requirement as the installer is your boss now,
5. reboot 

So far, I have not found a stable Linux distro bundled with kernel which is enable to run switchable VGA in Intel processor and dedicated NVIDIA VGA. Perhaps, some gurus can provide a better solution here... :)

 

Has anyone had any success with the dell supplied ubuntu image:

http://linux.dell.com/files/ubuntu/precise/12.04-OSP1/

I haven't been able to get the wireless working on it even after installing the dell drivers:

M4800_M6800_A03.fish.tar.gz

The current 14.04 (X)Ubuntu works reasonably well.

SD Card Reader               OK

WLan (1601)                  OK

LAN                          OK

Smartcard/Fingerprint Reader NOK

4G Modem (DW5570)            NOK

DPMS: X Wake up the display  NOK 

 

My current priority is to get the DW5570/MC8805 working, then the Smartcard Reader (0a5c:5802).

For the moment I forbid DPMS to shut down the display, but that is definitely not a longterm solution. ie I change the timeout values from  Standby: 1200, Suspend: 2400, Off: 3600 to 0, 0, 0 --> xset dpms 0 0 0

The drivers enclosed in the M4800_M6800_A03.fish.tar.gz archive
were of not much use to me since they do not match the for me relevant devices.

 

Fedora 20 "success" with 3rd party network card here:

I tried the latest broadcom drivers under fc20 via rpm - no luck - they disconnected frequently (within 30s). I also tried via building from source and they failed to build.

I had similar problems on my x220 laptop 2 years ago. So I bought a replacement card on ebay for it. Pulled that from the x220, slotted in the dell, and presto! Solid internet and no headaches.

>lspci

...

03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] (rev 34)

Also running a 750GB 840EVO ssd and 16gb of additional ram I picked up from newegg. I haven't figured out how to use an integrated headset (mic+headphones on single connector like the iphone headphones). Anyone got that working?

NVIDIA drivers were also a problem. Noveau worked but had tearing and mouse ptr update issues on screen #2. Tried installing NVidia drivers which blacklisted noveau and black screened on 2nd boot. Also tried rpm nv drivers from repoforge, but no luck. Bumblebee worked, but no HDMI/DP out. This was all on Bios v3. Drop nv drivers and reinstall, no luck.

So I updated the bios to v7, did a fresh fc20 install, turned off dual-card support in bios, and rpm-installed the NV drivers. That worked and I've got HDMI+DP. working. Better power support might be nice, but it works for now. Has anyone gotten Bumblebee running with HDMI+DP out on this laptop? I'd like to get the better power profile of the intel graphics if possible.

Trackpad appears to work fine for me. Shift+PgUp on the numeric keypad doesn't work in xterms, but num-pg-up works in emacs/elsewhere.

Only other anomaly I've seen is on hitting mute on the speakers and then plugging in a headset. The volume control goes back on for the headset but distorts sound. Unmute when speakers out, and then replug headset, and I'm clean on audio again.

Skype also fails under fc20, but that's a pulseaudio problem:

PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 skype

works to invoke it.