DELL Studio XPS 1340 Laptop.

[maaarcooose]

Just thought I'd start a thread for my laptop that I've installed on.

So far I've done a plain retail install of SL from a USB stick to an external USB hard disk.
I've got no additional kexts installed yet.

Everything seems to be mostly working but with the following issues:

Wireless was not working until I did a software update to 10.6.2 and then it is detected and is working fine now.

Sound is not working. No hardware is detected at the moment.

Keyboard & Touchpad on the laptop do not work at all. I'm currentlly using an external USB keyboard and mouse, but this is a pain for a laptop.

I am currentlly booting from the USB key that I installed with as that seems to have a bootloader that works on it and the hard disk itself does not seem to boot by itself.

The main reason I installed to an external is that I did not want to have to repartiton my main hard disk to a GUID partiton table. During the installation of SL I unplugged the internal drive as I have noticed that the SL installation tends to hose the MBR on a windows disk even if you only edit the partiton at the end of the drive.

TODO
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1 - Get keyboard and Mouse working.
I have tried varfious ps2 kexts before but to no avail. The KB & Mouse are still dead.
2 - Get sound kexts. Not even tried this yet
3 - Clone SL from the external HDD to and partition on my internal hard disk and then
setup a boot loader for it
I'm not 100% sure whether I'm bothered about this as it does mean I can keep my
mac install seperate.

Need help on:
I am currently having most trouble getting the internal KB & touchpad to work.
Can anyone offer any advice on this? I will update here with all things I try.

!m!