HPDV5100CTO

Contact: Kdb9000

Make: HP

Brand Pavilion

Model: DV5100 CTO

Website: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?product=1149448&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&lang=en&cc=us

Current Issues

Wireless needs firmware update or use windows drivers. (Fixed)

Card reader (5-in-1) only reads SD cards.

DVD and quickplay buttons do not work and can't be programed.

Suspend/Hibernation (Fixed)

Hardware details

Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

Hardy 8.04

Screen

Works

Correct resolution?

Yes

Correct refresh rate?

Yes

3D Acceleration

Works

External monitor works?

Works

External monitor - mirrors

Works

External monitor - extend desktop

Untested

Power Management

Battery detected?

Yes

Hibernates

Yes

Suspend

Yes

Dim monitor on battery

Yes

Blank monitor on inactivity

Yes

Lid Close

Works

Cpu frequency scaling

Works

Sound

Sound works?

Yes

Correct volume?

Yes

Hardware volume switch

Works

Headphone jack

Works

Mic jack

Untested

Networking

Wired NIC

Yes

Wireless NIC

Yes (see below)

PCMCIA NIC

Untested

Firewire

Works

Bluetooth

Works

Modem

Untested

Infrared

Works with Remote

Touchpad & Mice

Touchpad

Yes

Touchpad - Doubletap = double click

Yes

Touchpad - Scroll down side

Yes

External mouse - USB

Yes

Docking Station/Port Replicator

AC through replicator

Untested

USB

Untested

External Monitor - VGA

Untested

Modem

Untested

NIC

Untested

PS/2

Untested

Additional Hardware

CD/DVD drive

Yes

LightScribe

Untested

PCMCIA cards

Untested

mini PCI Express

Untested

Card reader(s)

Partly

5-in-1 Card Reader

SD

Yes

MS/Pro

Untested

MMC

Untested

SM

Untested

XD

No

Function and other keys

Fn key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

Hardy 8.04

+ F1

Help

Works

+ F2

Print

Untested

+ F3

WWW

Works

+ F4

Display Output

Yes

+ F5

Sleep

Works

+ F6

Lock

Wroks

+ F7

Brightness Down

Works

+ F8

Brightness Up

Works

+ F9

Play/Pause

Works

+ F10

Stop

Untested

+ F11

Track Back

Works

+ F12

Track Forward

Works

+ Scroll

Num Lock

Works

+ Pause

Break

Untested

+ Insert

Print Screen

Works

+ Delete

Sys Reg

Like Prt sc

Other special keys

Key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

Hardy 8.04

Windows key + E

Open all workspace

Untested

DVD Button

Open DVD player

Not working

Quickplay

Open Elisa or music player

Not working

Volume down

Volume Down

Works

Volume mute

Volume Mute

Works

Volume up

Volume Up

Works

Wireless

This works with the Broadcom 4311 (Airforce 54g) a/b/g mini-PCI card. The b43 driver works, you just need to update the firmware. You can do that by typing (in a terminal) "sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter" and it will update the firmware and allow you to use the b43 driver with Broadcom 43xx card. Should work with other Broadcom 43xx cards. You need to restart once it is done. WPA will also works too.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Hardy

DVD Playback

It appears that Ubuntu Hardy though my hard drive and my DVD-ROM were both SATA drives. Well as much I want them to be, they are not SATA. Here is what I found that works.

What you need to do is blacklisted ata_generic and added pata_atiixp to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules.

sudo gedit /etc/initramfs-tools/modules

then add this to the file:

pata_atiixp
blacklist ata_generic

Then recreated the initramfs with:

sudo update-initramfs -u

and, after a reboot, you will be able to play DVDs. I recommend VLC, but that is up to you. This also changed my hard drive and DVD-ROM from sda and scd0 to hda and hdc.

Suspend/Hibernation

This is what worked for me. It comes from ATi's Unofficial Wiki for Linux. http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Hardy_Installation_Guide#Suspend.2FHibernation

Make these changes in /etc/default/acpi-support:

SAVE_VBE_STATE=false

POST_VIDEO=false 

ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE=false

Remote

You can get a PCMCIA remote or a PCI Express remote (that is were you hide them) with this model, or just about any model. For the most part the PCI Express remote will work (I would think the PCMCIA one will too). I have noticed that it acts like you pressed the button twice when using the arrows. Aside from that it works.

Notes

Just about everything will work right out of the box. The wireless needs to have firmware updated or you can use the windows drivers and you have the fix for the CD/DVD and hard drive so you can play movies.


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