Talk:Dell Latitude 7490

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A comment [[User:Larry|Larry]] 13:52, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
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Touchpad

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This discussion is done as of 2024-07-22.

A separate article about that touchpad would be nice, compare 044E:1220 and Dell_Latitude_E6430_(CYRTRY1)#Touchpad. --Vaukai (talk) 13:27, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Done. :-)

--Flexibeast (talk) 02:18, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Stick

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This discussion is done as of 2024-07-27.

I see that there is a field in the table named "Stick". Is it "Pointstick" (marked as number 22 in the front view)? --Lars Hint (talk) 18:57, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

It is indeed - i've just updated the "Stick" entry to identify it as a 'Pointstick'.

-- Flexibeast (talk) 00:58, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

DELL specifics

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Does this laptop need or have any of the DELL specifics described here?

Hmm, well, here's the output of zgrep CONFIG_DELL /proc/config.gz:

CONFIG_DELL_LAPTOP=m
# CONFIG_DELL_RBU is not set
CONFIG_DELL_RBTN=m
CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS=m
CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_WMI=y
CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_SMM=y
# CONFIG_DELL_SMO8800 is not set
CONFIG_DELL_WMI=m
# CONFIG_DELL_WMI_PRIVACY is not set
# CONFIG_DELL_WMI_AIO is not set
CONFIG_DELL_WMI_DESCRIPTOR=m
# CONFIG_DELL_WMI_DDV is not set
# CONFIG_DELL_WMI_LED is not set
CONFIG_DELL_WMI_SYSMAN=m

and here's the output of lsmod | grep dell:

dell_smm_hwmon         12288  0
hwmon                  24576  1 dell_smm_hwmon
dell_rbtn              12288  0
dell_laptop            24576  0
dell_wmi               12288  0
dell_smbios            12288  2 dell_wmi,dell_laptop
dcdbas                 12288  1 dell_smbios
dell_wmi_sysman        28672  0
firmware_attributes_class    12288  1 dell_wmi_sysman
dell_wmi_descriptor    12288  2 dell_wmi,dell_smbios
rfkill                 24576  9 iwlmvm,rtlwifi,dell_laptop,dell_rbtn,cfg80211
sparse_keymap          12288  2 intel_hid,dell_wmi

i've not yet noticed any functionality missing. This box is my daily driver, and since it's "just working", i've not experimented with disabling various bits of kernel config to check what happens.

-- Flexibeast (talk) 23:37, 14 August 2024 (UTC)