====== Dell Latitude E5500 ======

Tested on 11.2-RELEASE.

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===== Hardware =====

  * CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     P8700  @ 2.53GHz (2527.05-MHz 686-class CPU)
  * Memory: 3GB
  * Wireless: Intel //%%WiFi%% Link 5100// ([[https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?iwn|iwn(4)]]).

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===== Support overview =====

^  Component  ^^  Status  ^  Details  ^

| Graphics  | Graphical sessions |  ✔  | Works better with the [[https://www.freshports.org/x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel/|Intel driver]]. |

| Backlight |  ✔  |  |
| Input devices  | Touchpad |  :?:  | Model: %%GlidePoint%%. Neither two-finger nor side scrolling work. I'm yet to figure out how to configure it. |

| Media keys  | Brightness |  ✔  |  |
| ::: | Volume keys |  ✔  | Everything works although the mute button does not unmute (at least when using x11-wm/dwm). |
| Network  | Ethernet |  :!:  |  |
| ::: | Wi-Fi |  ✔  | No need to load any firmware manually. It works better when using ''%%SYNCDHCP%%'' instead of ''%%DHCP%%'' in ''%%ifconfig_wlan0%%'' in ///etc/rc.conf//. |
| Other  | Battery |  ✔  |  |
| ::: | Bluetooth |  :!:  |  |
| ::: | SD-card reader |  :!:  |  |
| ::: | Smart-card reader |  :!:  |  |
| ::: | Suspend & resume |  ✔  | When using zzz(8) I am able to restore my X window sessions although I have to switch to other TTY consoles back and forth. It looks like it works much better if I use the media key with a moon on it (Fn+F1). This way everything just works flawlessly. |
| Ports  | %%FireWire%% |  :!:  |  |
| ::: | USB |  :!:  |  |
| ::: | VGA |  :!:  |  |
| Sound  | Headphone jack |  ✔  |  |
| ::: | Speakers |  ✔  |  |

|  2018-07-12 15:11:46+0200  ||||

  * **Legend**
    * ✔ OK
    * :?: Somewhat OK: requires additional tweaking or works worse than expected
    * :!: Status unknown, untested
    * ✘ Does not work

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===== Tweaks =====

==== Console ====

  * Add //kld_list="i915kms"// to ///etc/rc.conf// in order to increase font size in the console (this kernel module is loaded automatically anyway when you start the X server). //kms// is short for //kernel mode-switching//, it lets the kernel do the modeswitching instead of it being done in userspace - this means that it applies to both console, Xorg, Wayland and any programs that set custom resolutions.

==== Installation ====

=== Problem: the machine does not boot from a USB stick. Tested with 10.4-RELEASE and 11.2-RELEASE. ===

In the bootloader escape to the loader prompt and enter:

<code>
set hw.vga.textmode=1
</code>

==== Xorg ====

=== Touchpad ===

Two-finger scrolling does not work out of the box.

I've tried adding the following mouse configuration into  ///usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-mouse.conf// but to no avail:

<code>
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "CorePointer"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
EndSection
</code>

== References ==

  * https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-to-use-synaptics-driver-for-better-touchpad-features.54872/
  * http://freebsd.1045724.x6.nabble.com/Glidepoint-Scrolling-td4084250.html
  * https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#idp59892168
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/synaptics-touchpad-on-dell-inspiron-5150.19707/
  * http://kenbsd.blogspot.com/2015/12/setting-up-horizontal-scroll-on-freebsd.html
  * https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/7o2v62/your_xorgconfd_touchpad_configuration/
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/synaptics-touchpad-right-key-on-r60.10125/
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/solved-mouse-pointer-wont-move-for-acer-laptop-touchpad.37329/
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2009-July/008638.html
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/touchpad-not-recognized-generic-ps-2-mouse-instead.50318/#post-281745
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/synaptics-driver-not-loading-elantech-touchpad.59207/#post-339241
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/cannot-manage-display-mouse-from-xfce4-settings-menus.63988/#post-371562

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===== Files =====

Todo: upload files from https://hackerspace.pl/~mpts/tmp/e5500/

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