The Dell Inspiron 1090 (also Dell Inspiron Duo or Dell Duo) is a notebook/tablet convertible with a touchscreen with two-finger multitouch support. The touchscreen (with multitouch), wireless/bluetooth controller, sound system, webcam and CrystalHD chip work without problem. The only component which currently does not work is the #Accelerometer.

• 1Hardware specifications
  • 1.2Specifications according to uname, lspci and lsusb
• 2Hardware configuration
• 3Tablet Mode
  • 3.2Transparent cursor
  • 3.3On-screen keyboard
• 4Examples of use

Hardware specifications

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Official specifications

• Processor: Intel® Atom® Dual Core Processor N570 (1.6GHz, 512K L2 Cache).
• Memory: 2GB DDR3 SDRAM.
• Chipset: Intel® NM10 Express Chipset.
• Video card: Intel NM10 Express Video.
• Display: 10.1' Widescreen (1366x768) Capacitive Multi Touch.
• Audio and speakers: 2 X 1W speakers for total of 2W standard.
• Hard drive: Up to 320GB5 SATA hard drive (7200RPM).
• Battery: 29Whr 4 cell battery, captive, factory replaceable.
  • Battery life: Up to 3 hours and 57 minutes of battery life.
• Camera: Built-in 1.3 megapixel Webcam.
• Wireless: Wireless 802.11b/g/n.
• Bluetooth: Wireless 802.11b/g/n / Bluetooth 3.0 combo Card (Optional).
• Ports:
  • (1) Microphone.
  • (1) Headphone JACK.
  • (2) USB 2.0.
  • (1) AC adapter connector.
• Dimensions and weight:
  • Width: 11.22' (285.0mm).
  • Height: 1.03' (26.2mm) front – 1.13' (28.7mm) back.
  • Depth: 7.66' (194.5mm).
  • Starting weight: 3.39 lbs (1.54Kg).

Specifications according to uname, lspci and lsusb

Microarchitecture, processor and platform

PCI buses and devices

USB devices

Hardware configuration

Accelerometer

According to this source, model name is LSM303DLH. Only partial configuration has been achieved so far, athough the cited source claims to have full support of the accelerometer. See STMicroelectronics LSM303DLH Accelerometer/Magenetometer.

Wireless

Works out of the box.

Webcam

Detected by udev as

Works out of the box. Uses the uvcvideo module, see Kernel modules and Webcam setup.

Graphics controller

Install the xf86-video-intel package. See Intel.

Touchpad

Install the xf86-input-synaptics package.

Bluetooth

Uses bluetooth daemon, see Daemon.

Speakers

Uses snd-hda-intel module, see Kernel modules.

HD video playback

Install crystalhd-git^{AUR[broken link: archived in aur-mirror]}, available in the Arch User Repository. The new module is located in

Unload the staging module crystalhd and load the new one, see Kernel modules.

Touchscreen

Detected by udev as:

For configuration, see Multitouch displays.

Docking Station

A docking station is sold optionally with this computer.

This article or section needs expansion.

The docking station is an apparant PCI bus, connected from the bottom of the computer, that adds two USB, one audio, and one 10/100 hardwire 10/100 ethernet port.

Tablet Mode

The instructions above make the 1090 a fully-working netbook. To take advantage of this hardware, some tablet-related features need to be configured.

(Un)folding detection

When this computer is folded (or unfolded) into a tablet, it sends a keystroke. You can assign the keys XF86LAUNCH1 and XF86LAUNCH2 to these keystrokes with the following commands, respectively:

Transparent cursor

Install xcursor-transparent-theme^AUR, available in the Arch User Repository.

Hide mouse pointer in Gnome 3.x

Run the following commands as a normal user:

Hide mouse pointer in GDM

Create/edit the file /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme with the following contents:

On-screen keyboard

Generic

Install florence^AUR, available in the Arch User Repository.

Gnome 3.2.x

Install the caribou package.

Gesture recognition

Install easystroke-mt^{AUR[broken link: archived in aur-mirror]}, available in the Arch User Repository. It has multitouch support.

Screen rotation

The screen can be rotated with xrandr, but the coordinates of the touchscreen are not rotated accordingly. You can fix this with xinput by running the following commands:

Observe that the transformation matrix is the same for normal and inverted orientations, and for left and right orientations. Therefor the corresponding commands need to be applied only when changing between orientations with different transformation matrix.

Examples of use

Script for rotating the screen

The commands above can be used to make a simple shell script for toggling the screen orientation between landscape and portrait as follows, see also #Screen rotation:

Dell Multimedia Controller Driver

• Associate this script to a gesture using easystroke-mt^{AUR[broken link: archived in aur-mirror]}, see #Gesture recognition.
• Create a desktop launcher/system tray icon to run this script.

Script for toggling tablet mode ON and OFF (Gnome 3.x)

The following shell script hides the mouse pointer and activates Gnome 3.x's on-screen keyboard, caribou, when the netbook is fold into a tablet. It detects the current mode based on the current cursor theme (if the cursor is hidden, then the computer is in tablet mode). When you unfold the computer, it returns the screen to the default orientation.

Gateway Multimedia Controller Driver

See also

Dell Inspiron Duo 1090 Specs

• Thread in the Ubuntu Forums.
• Luke Ross' website^{[dead link 2017-06-02]}

Dell Inspiron Duo Multimedia Controller Driver