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# Dell Vostro 3360

## Specifications

On manufacturer site: [1]

lspci output:

    00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
    00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
    00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
    00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
    00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
    00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
    00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev c4)
    00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
    00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM77 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
    00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
    00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
    01:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
    02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

lsusb output:

    Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
    Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
    Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
    Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
    Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
    Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
    Bus 001 Device 003: ID 138a:0011 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS5011 Fingerprint Reader
    Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0c45:648b Microdia
    Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0cf3:e004 Atheros Communications, Inc.

## Hardware

### Wi-Fi

Works out-of-the-box.

### Ethernet

There's no card support at the moment (3.9 branch). However 3rd-party driver exists, and it's on the way to merging into mainline. As we want to use it right now, we'll use AUR:

    yaourt dkms-alx

To load driver, type sudo modprobe alx. dmesg will indicate something like this:

    [75367.300725] Compat-drivers backport release: compat-drivers-v3.9-rc4-2-su
    [75367.300728] Backport based on linux-stable.git v3.9-rc4
    [75367.300730] compat.git: linux-stable.git
    [75367.301040] Qualcomm Atheros(R) AR816x/AR817x PCI-E Ethernet Network Driver
    [75367.314351] alx 0000:02:00.0: alx(84:8f:69:d3:a6:09): Qualcomm Atheros Ethernet Network Connection

Then configure network as usual.

## Touchpad

Original Ubuntu provides 3rd-party unknown daemon for touchpad, and control utility is written in Java. That is unknown crap, moreover it's unavailable for non-Ubuntu system. The worst is that currently (3.9 kernel) touchpad is not supported by kernel. It's detected as common PS/2 mouse, but recently 3rd-party driver appeared:

    yaourt psmouse-alps-driver

After compiling and installing it would be nice to reload psmouse module:

    sudo rmmod psmouse
    sudo modprobe psmouse

Voilà — touchpad works as it must: you may use two-fingers scroll in any direction, control it via gsynaptics etc. Touchpad LED also works (out-of-the-box). To turn LED on:

    echo 255 >/sys/class/leds/dell-laptop::touchpad/brightness

and off:

    echo 0 >/sys/class/leds/dell-laptop::touchpad/brightness

## Webcam

Works out-of-the-box. You don't need GSPCA for that.

## Card reader

Works out-of-the-box. Notice that rts5139 driver is in staging, so be ready to complain on bugs.

## Video

Intel HD4000 works OK since 3.4 kernel, use earlier kernels at one's own risk.

## Sound

Works out-of-the-box:

    CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=m
    CONFIG_SND_HDA_PREALLOC_SIZE=4096
    CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y
    CONFIG_SND_HDA_RECONFIG=y
    CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP=y
    CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP_MODE=1
    CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_JACK=y
    CONFIG_SND_HDA_PATCH_LOADER=y
    CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_HDMI=y
    CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CIRRUS=y
    CONFIG_SND_HDA_GENERIC=y
    CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT=0

Other HDA codecs are unnecessary.

Note that full sound support including internal mic support appeared in 3.9 kernel, do consider using it. PulseAudio works OK as well.

## Multimedia keys

No way to make hardware ones work. Brightness, volume and mediaplayer keys work OK. For touchpad toggling consider using my desktop-scripts: [2]

## Fingerprint Reader

Test libfprintd version with VFS5011 Fingerprint Reader support is available here: [3]. Work OK.

## Actions

### Brightness adjustment

It's OK to pass the following options to kernel via bootloader:

    acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor

to use native brightness control module. Otherwise it's level won't be stored. But if you use KDE, remove this one:

    acpi_backlight=vendor

otherwise KDE won't be able to adjust brightness.

## Hibernation

It works, but requires several tricks to take bugs away. Create tricks.sh file in /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/ folder with the following content:

    #!/bin/sh

    case $1/$2 in
    pre/hibernate)
            echo never >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
            echo 1 >/sys/power/tuxonice/replace_swsusp
            echo 1 >/sys/power/tuxonice/compression/enabled
            echo 1 >/sys/power/tuxonice/user_interface/enable_escape
            echo 1 >/sys/power/tuxonice/user_interface/default_console_level
            echo lzo >/sys/power/tuxonice/compression/algorithm
            echo shutdown >/sys/power/disk
            ifconfig wlan0 down
            uksmctl -d
            sync
            ;;
    post/hibernate)
            hdparm -B 253 /dev/sda
            uksmctl -a
            echo madvise >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
            ;;
    pre/suspend)
            uksmctl -d
            sync
            ;;
    post/suspend)
            hdparm -B 253 /dev/sda
            uksmctl -a
            ;;
    esac

and make it executable. It you don't use pf-kernel, remove all strings related to TuxOnIce, UKSM and Transparent Hugepages.

Also it's nice to pass the following option to kernel via bootloader:

    i8042.nopnp

otherwise errors during hibernation may occur. They do not interrupt hibernation, just pollute the screen. Everything works without this option.

## Suspend to RAM

Works out-of-the-box.

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