HPG6065

Current Issues

System Info

system-manufacturer:Hewlett-Packard
system-product-name:HP G6000 Notebook PC
system-version:Rev 1

Hardware details

Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

in Gutsy

in Hardy (current development)

Screen

Untested

Yes

Yes

Correct resolution?

Untested

With restricted driver

With restricted driver

Correct refresh rate?

Untested

With restricted driver

With restricted driver

3D Acceleration

Untested

With restricted driver

With restricted driver

External monitor works?

Untested

Untested

Untested

External monitor - mirrors

Untested

Untested

Untested

External monitor - extend desktop

Untested

Untested

Untested

Power Management

Battery detected?

Untested

Yes

Yes

Hibernates?

Untested

No

No

Suspend

Untested

Yes

No

Dim monitor on battery

Untested

Yes

Yes

Blank monitor on inactivity

Untested

Yes

Untested

Lid Close

Untested

Yes

Yes

Cpu frequency scaling

Untested

Yes

Yes

Sound

Sound works?

Untested

Yes

Yes

Correct volume?

Untested

Yes

Yes

Hardware volume switch

Untested

Yes

Yes

Headphone jack

Untested

Works but does not mute speakers

Yes

Mic jack

Untested

Untested

Untested

Networking

Wired NIC

Untested

Yes

Yes

Wireless NIC

Untested

Requires patched Atheros driver

Requires patched Atheros driver

PCMCIA NIC

Untested

Untested

Untested

Firewire

Untested

N/A

Untested

Bluetooth

Untested

N/A

Untested

Modem

Untested

Untested

Untested

Infrared

Untested

N/A

Untested

Touchpad & Mice

Touchpad

Untested

Yes

Yes

Touchpad - Doubletap = double click

Untested

Yes

Yes

Touchpad - Scroll down side

Untested

Yes

Yes

External mouse - USB

Untested

Untested

Untested

External mouse - Serial

Untested

N/A

Untested

Docking Station/Port Replicator

AC through replicator

Untested

Untested

Untested

USB

Untested

Untested

Untested

Serial

Untested

Untested

Untested

Parallel

Untested

Untested

Untested

External Monitor - VGA

Untested

Untested

Untested

External Monitor - DVI

Untested

Untested

Untested

Modem

Untested

Untested

Untested

NIC

Untested

Untested

Untested

PS/2

Untested

Untested

Untested

Additional Hardware

Fingerprint reader

N/A

N/A

N/A

CD/DVD drive

Untested

Yes

Untested

PCMCIA cards

Untested

Untested

Untested

Parallel Ports

N/A

N/A

N/A

Card reader(s)

N/A

N/A

N/A

Function and other keys

Fn key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

in Gutsy

in Hardy (current development)

+ Space

None

Untested

N/A

Untested

+ Esc

None

Untested

N/A

Untested

+ F1

Launch help browser

Untested

Yes

Yes

+ F2

Print

Untested

Untested

Untested

+ F3

Launch internet browser

Untested

Yes

Yes

+ F4

Untested

Untested

Untested

+ F5

Sleep

Untested

Untested

Untested

+ F6

Lock

Untested

Untested

Yes

+ F7

Brightness down

Untested

Yes

Yes

+ F8

Brightness up

Untested

Yes

Yes

+ F9

Play/Pause

Untested

Yes

Yes

+ F10

Stop

Untested

Yes

Yes

+ F11

Skip back

Untested

Yes

Yes

+ F12

Skip forward

Untested

Yes

Yes

Other special keys

Key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

in Gutsy

in Hardy (current development)

+ Home

Mute

Untested

Yes

Yes

+ PgUp

Volume up

Untested

Yes

Yes

+ PgDown

Volume down

Untested

Yes

Yes

Notes

Vertical scroll can stop function seemingly randomly, although it seems to happen when the lock touchpad button is used but not consistently.

When unlocking the touchpad with the hardware button the help browser is launched, only current work around is to remove the keyboard shortcut for launching the help browser, this will also disable the Fn+F1 shortcut.

Wireless

To the the wireless card working a patched Madwifi is required. This is what I did to get it working.

First of all we need to stop the ath_hal module from loading. We do this by adding it to the list of disabled modules in /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common

Open linux-restricted-modules-common in gedit 

gksudo gedit /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common

Add ath_hal to the DISABLED_MODULES="" section so the file looks like this 

# This file is sourced from the linux-restricted-modules-common init
# script and is used to disable the link-on-boot feature, one module
# at a time.  This can be useful if you want to use hand-compiled
# versions of one or more modules, but keep linux-restricted-modules
# installed on your system, or just to disable modules you don't use
# and speed up your boot process by a second or two.
#
# Use a space-separated list of modules you wish to not have linked
# on boot.  The following example shows a (condensed) list of all
# modules shipped in the linux-restricted-modules packages:
#
# DISABLED_MODULES="ath_hal fc fglrx ltm nv"
#
# Note that disabling "fc" disables all fcdsl drivers, "ltm" disables
# ltmodem and ltserial, and "nv" disables both the nvidia drivers.
# You can also name each module individually, if you prefer a subset.
 
DISABLED_MODULES="ath_hal"

Now we need to install build-essential, download and extract the madwifi snapshot and patch, patch the snapshot and then install the patched driver 

sudo apt-get install build-essential
wget 'http://madwifi.org/attachment/ticket/1679/madwifi-ng-0933.ar2425.20071130.i386.patch?format=raw'
wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-ng/madwifi-ng-r2756-20071018.tar.gz
tar zxvf madwifi-ng-r2756-20071018.tar.gz
cd madwifi-ng-r2756-20071018
patch -p0 < ../madwifi-ng-0933.ar2425.20071130.i386.patch\?format\=raw
make clean
make
sudo make install

Now all you have to do is reboot and your wireless will be working.

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LaptopTestingTeam/Old/HPG6065 (last edited 2010-03-02 10:05:54 by host226-241-dynamic)