Fedora Core (GNU/Linux) on the Dell Latitude X1

	Hard drive : Toshiba 60GB UDMA100	Working flawlessly, 21MB/s
	Optical drive : D-Bay Samsung CDRW/DVD SN324S	Installed fine from it. When booting with it connected, it appears as an IDE drive, and when hot plugging it, as a usb mass storage device, very practical
	USB : USB 2.0, EHCI 1.00	Works fine with default usb-uhci and ehci_hcd
	IEEE1394 Firewire	Works fine with default video1394 and raw1394
	GigabitEthernet : Broadcom BCM5751 (Tigon3)	Works fine with the default tg3 driver
	Sound chip : Intel 82801FB AC'97	Works fine with the default ALSA snd_intel8x0m module
	LCD display : 1280x768	Works at full 1280x768 using the 855resolution utility
	Video controller : Intel Mobile 915GM	Uses vesa in xorg-x11 6.8.2, but i810_drv driver in CVS (will be 6.9.x or 7.0.x)
	Wireless : Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2200BG	Works fine with ipw2200 module and ipw2200-firmware
	Bluetooth : Dell Truemobile	Connected internally to the USB bus, works great
	Modem : Broadcom or Conexant	These little beasts simply suck...
	Secure Data slot	Ricoh device not internally USB connected, would require a specific driver
	Compact Flash / MMC slot	On a Cardbus bridge, works with the pcmcia service and cardmgr

• Green : Works with what is provided in Fedora Core
• Orange : Works, but with third party utilities or drivers
• Red : Doesn't work

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
02:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 08)
02:01.2 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0822 (rev 17)
02:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)

Display :

As of writing, Fedora Core 4 installed fine, but only with the vesa driver at 800x600, though. It can also work at 1024x768 but you'll get a streched display. Recompiling xorg-x11 from CVS is required in order for the i810 driver to recognize the card and provide accelerated display. The other option is to replace the i810_drv.o file, but text consoles will break unless fb is used and you need to change HorizSync to 20-90, VertRefresh to 60-100 and add this line to the Monitor section of your xorg.conf :

ModeLine "1280x768" 111.69 1280 1336 1616 1728 768 770 782 808

For a 1024x768 framebuffer console, you can append this to your grub.conf kernel lines :

vga=0x317 video=i810fb:vram:2,xres:1024,yres=768,bpp:24,hsync1:30,hsync2:49,vsync1:40,vsync2:70,accel,mtrr

I haven't tested the VGA output yet, but hopefully it may work with the i810switch utility.

Suspend :

For now, I use swsusp2 since S3 is flaky and the Ethernet driver (tg3) doesn't work after resume, at least not without patching. For turning the display off and on when the lid is closed and opened, I use this lid.conf and lid.sh, since otherwise it stays off. For running hibernate, I use this simple sleep.conf.

Overall this is an impressive laptop, I really love it.