HPEliteBook8530p

Installation

Installed Jaunty Jackalope (Ubuntu 9.04 32 and 64-bit, Kubuntu 9.04 64-bit, Ubuntu Studio 9.04 64-bit)

Current Issues

Some additional keys (info key, presentation key) are not working

System Info

  • system-manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard

  • system-version: F.04

Hardware details

Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

Jaunty (Final)

Screen

YES

Correct resolution?

YES

Correct refresh rate?

YES

3D Acceleration

YES1 with fglrx drivers

External monitor works (VGA)?

YES

External monitor works (HDMI)?

Untested

External monitor - mirrors

Untested

External monitor - extend desktop

YES

Power Management

Battery detected?

YES

Hibernates?

YES

Suspend

YES

Dim monitor on battery

Untested

Blank monitor on inactivity

YES

Lid Close

YES

Cpu frequency scaling

Untested

Sound

Sound works?

YES

Correct volume?

YES

Hardware volume switch

YES

Headphone jack

YES

Mic jack

Untested

Networking

Wired NIC

Yes

Wireless NIC

Yes

Bluetooth

YES

Modem

Untested

Touchpad & Mice

Touchpad

YES

Touchpad - Doubletap = double click

YES

Touchpad - Scroll down side

YES

External mouse - USB

YES

Additional Hardware

Built in webcam

Untested

Fingerprint reader

Untested

CD/DVD drive

YES

Express Cards/34

Untested

SD Card reader

Untested

Function and other keys

Fn key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

Jaunty (Final)

+ F1

Help

0xff6a, Help

YES

+ F2

Print

0xffe3, Control_L

YES

+ F3

Browser-home

0x1008ff18, XF86HomePage

YES

+ F4

External monitor

YES

+ F5

Sleep

YES

+ F6

Lock

Untested

+ F7

Brightness - Up

YES

+ F8

Brightness - Down

YES

+ F9

Play/Pause

YES

+ F10

Stop

YES

+ F11

Skip-Forward

YES

+ F12

Skip-Previous

YES

Other special keys

Key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

Jaunty (Final)

Info-button

0xff6a, Help

Untested

Presentation-button

Untested

Wireless-button

YES

Mute-button

YES

#369484

Volume-button

YES

  1. After fglrx driver install, sholud be problems with video system. X server could hang while starting. To fix this after installing driver use this commands: user@notebook:~$ aticonfig --initial user@notebook:~$ aticonfig --acpi-services=off (1)

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