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Notes on installation and compatibility of Ubuntu with Hewlett-Packard laptop computers.

Summary

Make

Model

Install ?

Not works ?

Comments

Ubuntu Release

Date

HP

nc6220

Yes

n/a

See details below

hp-Hoary

2005-09-14

HP

NC4000

Yes

See http://members.fortunecity.com/lennychen2002/linux/

Warty

18-Nov-2004

HP

NC4200

Yes

N/A

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HPNC4200

HP-Hoary

20050820

HP (Compaq)

nc6120

Yes

See details below

working like a charm, some minor bugs

HP-Hoary

HP (Compaq)

NC8000

Yes

SD-card reader (not ubuntu specific)

HP (Compaq)

NX5000

Yes

Details below

HP (Compaq)

NX9020

Yes

External monitor switch with XFree (but it's working with X.org)

PCMCIA and modem not tested

HP (Compaq)

NX9030

Yes

wireless works out of the box, had the ipw2200 conn break bug a few times (workaround with rmmod/modprobe, should be fixed in next driver release)

PCMCIA and modem not tested

Warty&Hoary

09-Apr-2005

HP

Omnibook 500

Yes

Pcmcia, ACPI, extra keys, modem, video out not tested

HP

Omnibook 900b

Yes

Close screen to suspend

After 1st install reboot, screen begins flashing for approx 30 minutes, but will eventually present a login screen. USB and PCMCIA work

5.04 Hoary

11-May-2005

HP

Omnibook XE4500

Yes

wireless-lan (prism2_usb) doesn't work altough the driver is loaded (might be that I just don't know how to configure it)

CD burning not tested. If freeze pb you sould use acpi=off.

HP

Omnibook XT6200

Yes

Modem

HP

Pavillon DV1066ea (DV1000 series)

Yes

Details below

Hoary

HP

Pavilion DV1250ea (DV1000 series)

Yes

Touchpad tap-to-click doesn't seem to work properly. Wireless seems to need linux 2.6.10-586

Hoary

3-July-2005

HP

Pavillon ZD7320ea (ZD7000 series)

Yes

Details below

Warty

HP

Pavillon ZD7150ea (ZD7000 series)

Yes

Details below

Hoary

24-June-2005

HP

Pavillon ZE4125

Yes

Suspend to both RAM and disk

Use linux vga=791 at boot for correct console resolution. Hoary only.

Hoary

HP

Pavillon ZE4355ea

Yes

CD burning not tested

HP

Pavillon ZE4453ea

Yes

3d-acceleration

PCMCIA/Parallel/Seriel NOT tested

Breezy

26-Oct-2005

HP

Pavillon ZE4550

Yes

Only boots with noapic and nolapic (on bootup screen type "linux noapic noalapic").

HP

Pavillon ZE5640ea (ZE5600 series)

Yes

CD burning and IEEE1394 not tested

HP

Pavillon ZV5120US (ZV5100 series)

Yes

battery status (only percent, same in XP), wireless (unless ndiswrapper + bcmwl5.inf), modem (unless precompiled slmodemd from linmodems.org, use sudo slmodemd --alsa -c USA modem:1), touchpad scrolling (that's no problem), 3D (failed with ati drivers), DVD playback (crappy w/ libdvdcss2), suspend/hibernate (neither to disk nor to drive, wish it worked)

ethernet card not tested but seems okay

very very nice with this laptop when compared to other distros

5.04 and 5.10

HP

Pavillon ZV5132ea (ZV5000 series)

Yes

Touchpad, battery status (only percent), modem

Needs noapic to boot. Needs manual configuration for nVidia [GeForce4 440Go].

Warty

HP

Pavillon ZV5132ea (ZV5000 series)

Yes

Modem, resume from RAM (nvidia graphics does not wake up), battery status (only percent).

[http://jwk.de/linux/linux_on_laptop_ubuntu_hp_ZV5132ea Configuration details by Jensens]

Hoary

HP

Pavillon ZV5242qv (ZV5000 series)

Yes

Details below

Hoary

HP

Pavillon ZX5078cl

Yes

Suspend/resume, card reader

See http://mattsmith.hostmatrix.org/zx5078cl/ubuntu.html

01-Mar-2005

HP

Pavilion zv6000

Yes

Hibernation, cardreader, volume buttons

amd64 wireless and video with help (Details below)

Breezy

13-Nov-2005

HP

Pavilion zv6131us

Yes

Did not test modem, cardreaders, hibernation. [http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=52201 More details on setup.]

Breezy

26-Jul-2005

HP

Pavilion zv6130us

Yes

wireless took a bit of effort but works, volume buttons don't work, AMD64 issues(totem crashes X, no flash, win32 codecs, etc), haven't tried 3d acceleration yet (see zv6131us above for more info)

Breezy

24-Sep-2005

Details

HP (Compaq) NX5000

  • Bluetooth works out of the box.
  • Had to replace ipw2200 kernel drivers and firmware with latest from [http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/] to get Wireless working.

  • Have not tried CD burning, IrDA or IEEE1394.
  • Conflict between HAL and onboard network card (Broadcom 4400). Either disable D-BUS (sudo /usr/sbin/update-rc.d dbus-1 remove) or stop hotplug from loading the driver by adding b44 to /etc/hotplug/blacklist.

  • VBIOS needs to be patched to enable 1400x1050. Download and compile [http://perso.wanadoo.fr/apoirier/ 855resolution] then do 855resolution 4d 1400 1050.

  • Cannot wake from suspend.

HP nc6120

* Go to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HPNC6120 for a more detailed description of the nc6xxx series' key features.

* Installed version is HP-Ubuntu (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/custom/20050516/hoary-install-i386.iso)

* To get Hibernation (Suspend to disk) to work, I had to change the last line of /etc/default/acpi-support to: STOP_SERVICES="mysql irda-utils"

* The Ipw2200 adapter disconnects itself from the network during work. I found a solution to this bug here:

It is tested to work with kernel version 2.6.10-5-386 (installed ver reported by synaptic: 2.6.10-34.2). Even the blue led is working now!

* 3d accelleration is working, but only with MESA libraries. This has an impact on the performance.

* Cd-Burning is working (speed: 12x after removing autostart of nautilus burn:// in system -> settings -> changeable media)

* 6in1 Card reader doesn't work because there are no drivers available at the moment.

* Not tested yet: DVD-Writer, Modem, PCMCIA.

* For questions: mail to phen at gmx dot de

HP Pavilion DV1066ea (DV1000 series)

  • Most things seem to work out of the box, or with minor tweaking
  • Sound, 1280x768 screen, wireless, 10/100 Mbit LAN, synaptics touchpad, 3D acceleration, CPU frequency scaling, CD writer all work well
  • Modem, DVD rewriter not yet tested, but I believe they will work fine (all Linux supported from what I've read)
  • In common with several other HP notebooks, noapic is needed at boot-up to prevent random freezes.
  • There's a small write-up on the install with more details at [http://www.dbg400.net/dv1066ea.html]

  • Upgrading to Hoary adds suspend to RAM and suspend to disk.

HP pavilion ZD7320ea (ZD7000 series)

  • Warty works mostly out of the box
  • Touchpad works with the configuration detected during the installation. It behave strangely sometimes though.
  • Widescreen can be easily configurated with XFree nv driver with the following in addition to the default configuration set during the installation

    Section "Monitor"
     Identifier "widescreen"
     HorizSync 30-64
     VertRefresh 50-100
     Modeline "1440x900" 106.47 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 +HSync +VSync
     Option  "DPMS"
    EndSection
    Section "Screen"
     Identifier "Laptop Screen"
     Device  "NVIDIA Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go 5200]"
     Monitor  "widescreen"
     DefaultDepth 24
     SubSection "Display"
      Depth  24
      Modes  "1440x900"
     EndSubSection
    EndSection
    Section "ServerLayout"
     Identifier "Default Layout"
     Screen  "Laptop Screen"
     InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
     InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
     InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
    EndSection
    I did not manage to have nvidia proprietary 3D driver working.
  • Didn't try IrDA, Modem, Wifi and Suspend to disk (yet)
  • Sound is working with alsa. But the quality is not very good (while it is very good under W(tm). Probably a config problem...
  • Used to face problems to umount removable devices because of 'fam' (set by default install). Removing 'fam' (sudo apt-get remove fam) solved the problem.
  • Some help can be found and requested at 'http://www.zd7000forums.com/viewforum.php?f=12'

HP pavilion ZD7150ea (ZD7000 series)

  • Hoary works out of the box. I downloaded the ISO, booted it with the 'expert' parameter. The reason why is just that I wanted to see the works and not just the quick-install. No special apic,acpi parameters were needed!
  • Touchpad works without any problem. I installed Ubuntu with an USB-mouse from Logitech plugged in for convenience and it works withou a hitch, scrolling everything.
  • The default nvidia-driver detected everything perfectly and also started with the correct default resolution 1440x900. I used the guide on www.ubuntuguide.org to install the nvidia binary drivers. Installed without any problems and then I used this guy's http://excidium.net/zd7010-linux.html Device config to get the correct resolution.

  • Ethernet-networking wasn't nearby but a Wifi-AP was. I had downloaded the ndiswrapper-deb and had the Broadcom-files on an USB-stick. I then used one of the simple HOWTOs from the forum and everything worked flawlessly.
  • ACPI - NO PROBLEM! The hibernation sequence is a charm. It takes about 20-30s to shutdown and then when you restart, you are presented with GRUB. You choose your kernel-line and voĆ­la! You're back at your Gnome-desktop. No GRUB-editing needed for me. Suspend-to-RAM has to be enabled according the ACPI-faq. No problem using it. Everything wakes up without problems, even the WLAN works within a second.
  • Problems not yet solved: The battery applet in GNOME isn't being updated when running on battery. There is an ugly workaround one could use. If you issue 'acpi -V' in a console, the state is updated. If someone knows a 'clean' solution, please let me know.

HP pavilion zv5242qv (zv5000 series)

Generaly works out of the box with the Hoary preview

  • pcmcia slot acts like it's working but no cards will return "ident" info from cardctl
  • touchpad works, but sometimes on boot it fails. log off/on fixes
  • [GeForce4440Go] 440 Go 64M with 1280x800 works out of the box, but the official nvidia driver requires some tweaks

  • broadcom wireless works with ndiswrapper. used "wifi-radar" for wlan config and profiles
  • 5n1 memory card reader doesn't work, seems to be unsupported in the kernel.
  • extra buttons can be configured, including volume controls

Note that not all zv5000's are quite the same Smile :)

Note: Try for zv5000's PCMCIA in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts lines 'include port 0x3000-0x7fff' and 'memory 0xe8100000-0xe97fffff' (reboot required).

From unknown Tue May 17 19:59:13 +0100 2005 From: Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 19:59:13 +0100 Subject: HP NX6110, Celeron M360, Broadcom wifi Message-ID: <20050517195913+0100@www.ubuntulinux.org>

Hoary install worked OK. Wifi needed to be setup according to ubuntu ndiswrapperhowto using the windows drivers on the HP driver CD, now OK. Suspend freezes the machine - no other problems so far. Recommend.

Note: according to this (http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/58780) HP is offering a version of Ubuntu which supports all the hardware in the following laptops: nx6110, nc6120, nc6220, nc6230 and nc6000 (get it here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/custom/20050516/hoary-install-i386.iso)

hp Compaq nc6220

generally works out of the box with Hoary.

... but xorg only displays 1280x1024 - the LCD can do 1440x1050 so everything looks a little blury.

How to fix:

  • download 915resolution from http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/download.html and compile

  • run: /usr/sbin/915resolution 32 1400 1050
  • restart the X-Server: kill $(ps -ef | grep /usr/X11R6/bin/X | awk '{print $2}')
  • login and resize the Display through -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution to 1440x1050 and suddenly you can see clearer, now

  • write a neat little start-up script to run 915resolution before gdm starts.

done.

HP pavilion zv6000 (zv5000 series)

Wireless and Video requires some special handling with breezy amd64 kernel.

Install

  • Pass vga=771 to the kernel when booting the installer
  • Use an ether cable or a wireless PCMCIA if you want to network before seting up the ndiswrapper
  • The graphical login will fail: Add 'Option "NoAccel"' (minus the single-quote marks) to the Device Section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

  • The hardware clock is too fast: Add 'no_timer_check' (minus the single-quote marks) to each kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst

Wireless with ndiswrapper

  • The amd64 kernel with ndiswrapper needs the 64bit windows drivers from https://www.synapsenow.com/synapse/data/7117/documents/WLAN_Broadcom_BG(3.100.64.0_logo).zip

  • ndiswrapper 1.5rc2 was needed
  • Follow the instructions at http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=25683

WXGA Video

The xorg ati (radeon) drivers and vesa stretch 1027 to 1200. Both the xorg that ships with breezy and the update have a bad libdri.a. Also video playpack under Totem or gxine kills X under the radeon and vesa drivers. As of November 2005 (xorg 6.8.2-77, fglrx64-6-8-0 8.18.8-2), the ATI drivers with an older libdri.a are required to fix the video. some details of the fix are discussed at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=78466. If the ati installer cannot build the driver, use alien to convert fglrx64_6_8_0-8.18.8-1.x86_64.rpm to a deb.

  • Download the amd64 driver from www.ati.com and install it
  • Get a copy of http://mail3.mpr.org/mlomker/libdri.a.gz and replace /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/extensions/libdri.a

  • Revise your /etc/X11/xorg.conf device section by setting the driver to "fglrx":
  • Revise your /etc/X11/xorg.conf Module section:

    Load    "dbe"   # Double buffer extension
    Load    "freetype"
    Load    "type1"
    Load    "glx"
    Load    "dri"
    Load    "ddc"