Dell Mini 10v
The Dell Mini 10v is a netbook from Dell.
Contents
Hardware
Audio: Intel Corporation 82801G
Video: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME
Wired NIC: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E
Wireless NIC: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g
Bluetooth: Dell 365 Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
Webcam: Syntek Integrated Webcam
Installing
As the netbook does not have a CD-ROM drive, installation must be performed from a USB. See the guide Install_from_USB_stick.
Xorg
Setting up Xorg is easy on the Mini 10v. Just follow the guide for Xorg and hal will do the rest. Becareful not to start the display manager without adding hal to the /etc/inittab and installing the touchpad driver!
Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) works well on the 10v, allowing the native resolution to work at init level 3, and flickerless switching between the terminal and X sessions. See "Early Start" section in Intel for more details.
Touchpad
The Mini 10v needs the synaptics driver to get the touchpad working. Read the synaptics guide to get help. The integrated buttons are difficult to use (anyone have a good xorg.conf to post here?).
On the netbook, the area where you do a keypress is also a active part of the thouchpad. I.e. if you try to move a window, you point at it using one and need to click and hold left with a other finger. Doing this with the Default synaptics driver causes the cursor to "Jump" around, so it is VERY hard to move widows or mark text.
As the original author of this page requested, here is a AUR-Package that patches whats needet to make the Touchpad useable: xf86-input-synaptics-jumpycursor
it uses a later version (ubuntu7) of the patch that was referenced here with litte fixes to make it work with lastes synaptics driver from abs.
Add the Synaptics touchpad to your xorg.conf like suggested here and then add
Option "JumpyCursorThreshold" "90" Option "AreaBottomEdge" "4100"
to the Synaptics InputDevice Section.
Resttart X and now your touchpad is working like every other touchpad.
Wireless
The Wireless NIC is supported by b43 and is included in kernel from 2.6.32 on. Firmware must be installed for this hardware, as outlined in the guide Wireless_Setup#b43.
Sound
Configure ALSA as outlined in the guide Beginners'_Guide#Part_III:_Install_X_and_configure_ALSA.
Power
pm-suspend from the pm-utils package works. Also install the acpid package, and in the file /etc/acpi/handlers.sh, put:
/usr/sbin/pm-suspend
under button/lid. That will allow the machine to suspend to RAM when the lid is closed. Putting the same line under button/power) will allow "suspend to RAM" when the power button is pressed also. The machine will resume automatically after either the lid is open or the power button is pressed again.
Extras
Webcam
UVC 1.00 compatible - should work out of the box, with the latest kernel (remember to add user to video group). You may use the cheese
package to test it.
Bluetooth
To use Bluetooth, see the Bluetooth page for setting up bluez.
Solid-state drive
If you have solid-state drive (SSD), then you will want to reduce the number of writes to the disk. You can use the tmpfs system to reduce write activities on solid-state drive. Edit /etc/fstab to add the following:
none /var/log tmpfs size=10M 0 0 none /var/tmp tmpfs size=20M 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs size=200M 0 0
See the Acer Aspire One page for more suggestions.