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• Contact: [JonDodson]

• Make: HP Pavillion
• Model: zd7000

Current Issues

impede my work.

Currenty isses in Hoary:

• No Wireless from the built in Wireless card.
• Sound is sketchy, I have to killall esd to get certain programs to work.
• The MAX resoultion is 1280x800, my coworkers with the same model can get higher using Debian Stable. I think the resoultion went a bit lower after I installed the binary nvidia drivers.
• The whole thing seems really chunky, IO wait is really high, unsure why this is. Perhaps DMA shold be enabled?

Things that work:

• USB
• Firewire
• The built in Mousepad(and you can turn it off, a lifesaver)
• Sound(mostly)
• DVD/CDRW
• Headphone jack
• Ethernet

Notes:

If this list is pretty sparse, it is because I had little time to write it up. I hope it helps.

• Contact: [ThomPischke]

• Purchased: January 2004

What I can add:

• Video: Resolution was fine by default, but bumped down when I installed binary drivers. Was able to correct this fairly easily by googling and tweaking config files.
• Modem: Does not work, as far as I can tell
• Wireless: Works ok with NDISWrapper
• Hibernate: Shuts down, but then just does a normal boot, so does not work by default
• Sleep key does not work
• None of the special functions keys work by default (play, stop, ff, etc)
• Sound: Has never worked to my satisfaction. Quality ok if PCM adjusted to 75% but then volume is a bit low.
  • Have tried most of the standard tricks from the guide, but I must disable 'Sounds for events' to get many things to work
• Battery monitor does not work
• USB has been stellar
• Ethernet: works fine
• CD reading/burning all good so far
• All in all, worked very well. Performance seems generally equal or better to the dual-boot Windows XP alternative. Sound and hibernation improvements would be nice, and probably most users will want modem and wireless to work by default.