HPNX6325

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[http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF25a/321957-64295-89315-321838-f33-1849082.html Product page] [http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12447_na/12447_na.HTML Official specifications] [http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?prodNameId=1849083&lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=1849082&taskId=135 Software and drivers] [http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/familyhome.do?familyId=118 HP forums]

[http://vale.homelinux.net/wordpress/?p=106 Ubuntu 6.10 (EdgyEft) on the HP NX6325 - step by step installation how-to for beginners] [http://www.puchalla-online.de/nx6325.html Debian GNU Linux (Etch) on an HP compaq 6325 laptop by Jochen Puchalla] [http://www.andreas-kleisun.homepage.t-online.de/FC5_on_nx6325.html A guide to install Fedora Core 5 on a HP Compaq nx6325 by Andreas Kleisun] [http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Gentoo_on_HP_Compaq_nx6325 Gentoo on HP Compaq nx6325] [http://www.wolframschenck.de/nx6325.htm Installation of SUSE Linux 10.1 Wolfram Schenck] [http://thinksilicon.redprohosting.de/index.php?page=39 SuSE auf HP Compaq nx6325 (German language)] [http://www.gammu.org/wiki/index.php?title=HydePark:Nx6325 Windows experience and plenty of problem documentation]

Current Issues

System Info

bios-version:68TT2 Ver. F.02
system-manufacturer:Hewlett-Packard
system-product-name:HP Compaq nx6325 (EY343EA#ABD)
system-version:F.02

bios-version:68TT2 Ver. F.04
system-manufacturer:Hewlett-Packard
system-product-name:HP Compaq nx6325 (EY343EA#ABD)
system-version:F.04

bios-version:68TT2 Ver. F.06
system-manufacturer:Hewlett-Packard
system-product-name:HP Compaq nx6325 (EY344ET#AK8)
system-version:F.06

bios-version:68TT2 Ver. F.00
system-manufacturer:Hewlett-Packard
system-product-name:HP Compaq nx6325 (EY351EA#UUZ)
system-version:F.00

bios-version:68TT2 Ver. F.06
system-manufacturer:Hewlett-Packard
system-product-name:HP Compaq nx6325 (EY343EA#AKD)
system-version:F.06

["LaptopTestingTeam/HPNX6325/dmesg"] ["LaptopTestingTeam/HPNX6325/lspci"] ["LaptopTestingTeam/HPNX6325/lspcmcia"] ["LaptopTestingTeam/HPNX6325/lsusb"] ["LaptopTestingTeam/HPNX6325/dmidecode"]

Hardware details

ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386

ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386 (beta)

Does the installation work?

yes

yes

Hardware Information

EY349EA

EY344ET

EY351EA

EY343EA

AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52 1.6 Ghz

AMD Sempron 3500+

AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 2.0 Ghz

AMD Sempron 3500+ 1800 MHz

512 MB DDR2 667

512 MB DDR2 667

1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

512 MB DDR2 667 MHz

80 GB SATA

60 GB SATA

80GB SATA

60 GB SATA

15" TFT LCD 1024x768

15" TFT LCD 1024x768

15" SXGA+ (1400x1050)

15" TFT LCD XGA 1024x768 mat

ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 128 MB UMA

ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 64 MB UMA

ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 128MB shared system memory

ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 (64 MB shared memory)

DVD+/-RW DL

DVD+/-RW DL

DVD+/-RW DL DVD-RAM-RW

DVD+/-RW DL

USB

yes

yes

yes, 3 x USB 2.0

Modem

yes

yes

yes

Firewire

yes

Bluetooth

N/A

Bluetooth

N/A

Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 UART (rev 01)

Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)

Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

Ubuntu 7.04 i386

Ubuntu 7.10 i386 (beta)

Screen

yes

yes

Correct resolution?

yes

yes

Correct refresh rate?

yes

yes

3D Acceleration

yes (with fglrx, hangs on log off)

yes (with fglrx)

External monitor works?

yes (with fglrx)

untested

External monitor - mirrors

yes (with fglrx)

untested

External monitor - extend desktop

untested

untested

TV-out

untested

untested

Power Management

Battery detected?

Yes

Yes

Hibernates?

yes (fan doesn't start after wake up)

untested

Sleep

Yes

untested

Dim monitor on battery

Untested

yes

Blank monitor on inactivity

Untested

yes

Lid Close

yes

yes

CPU frequency scaling

yes

yes

Sound

Sound works?

yes

yes

Correct volume?

yes

yes

Hardware volume switch

yes

yes

Headphone jack

yes

yes

Mic jack

yes, after manual editing of some file

untested

Integrated Mic

yes (turn on capturing in mixer console)

untested

Networking

Wired NIC

yes

yes

Wireless NIC

yes, with ndiswrapper

yes

PCMCIA NIC

untested

untested

Firewire

untested

untested

Bluetooth

Untested

yes

Modem

untested

untested

Touchpad & Mice

Touchpad

yes

yes

Touchpad - Doubletap = double click

yes

yes

Touchpad - Scroll down side

yes

yes

Touchpad - turned off while typing

yes (with ksynaptics)

yes (with ksynaptics)

External mouse - USB

yes

yes

Docking Station/Port Replicator

AC through replicator

untested

untested

USB

untested

untested

Serial

untested

untested

Parallel

untested

untested

External Monitor - VGA

Untested 

untested

External Monitor - DVI

Untested

Untested

Modem

untested

untested

NIC

Untested

Untested

PS/2

untested

untested

Additional Hardware

Fingerprint reader

untested

untested

CD/DVD drive

yes

yes

PCMCIA cards

untested

untested

Card reader(s)

yes, after manual editing of some files

yes

Function and other keys

Fn key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

Ubuntu 7.04 i386

Ubuntu 7.10 i386 (beta)

+ F3

sleep

yes

untested

+ F4

video display hotkey

yes

untested

+ F8

show battery status

yes

yes

+ F9

decrease screen brightness

yes (only on open driver)

yes (only on open driver)

+ F10

increase screen brightness

yes (only on open driver)

yes (only on open driver)

Other special keys

Key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

Ubuntu 7.04 i386

Ubuntu 7.10 i386 (beta)

wireless button

yes

yes

help button

yes

yes

presentation button

yes (but it has no event attached - I use it for music player)

untested

Notes

Ubuntu 6.10

AndyB: CPU overheating Please keep an eye on CPU temperature. According to my experience, the CPU might get very hot (>80°C) until the fan turns on. Unfortunately, the fan stops when temperature reaches about 70°C and so the CPU might get over 80°C again. Try

watch cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature

to monitor temperature,

echo "on" > /proc/acpi/fan/C34B/state

to turn on the fan manually. If that command is not working try

echo "0" > /proc/acpi/fan/C34B/state

(3 to turn off) or choose another fan-address instead of C34B (eg. C348, C349, C34A). In normal use, the CPU temperature rather exceeds 50°C (with fan turned on manually) I haven't faced this problem with newer versions of edgy (6.10).

Wireless You don't have to use ndiswrapper to enable wifi: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Dapper 1.3.2.2. Firmware Packages

As an alternative to running the script, you can install the firmware files from a package. To automatically keep up to date, add this repository line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ubuntu.cafuego.net dapper-cafuego bcm43xx # edgy-cafuego also works. Choose according to your OS

and make sure apt knows about the GnuPG key used to sign the packages:

wget http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/969F3F57.gpg ~/969F3F57.gpg | sudo apt-key add ~/969F3F57.gpg

Then update your package listings and install the bcm43xx-firmware package. or download the package directly:

wget -c http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/pool/dapper-cafuego/bcm43xx/bcm43xx-firmware_1.3-1ubuntu1_all.deb

and then install it manually:

sudo dpkg -i bcm43xx-firmware_1.3-1ubuntu1_all.deb

Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

The workaround for the "bad state" issue (kernel < 2.6.20) is no longer necessary. Touchpad "freezes" in (apparently) random intervals, the cursor remains in the upper left corner and is unmovable. Solution: reboot Restricted drivers (ATI) are proposed and work Desktop effects don't work (neither with fglrx)

Azrael's Comments

My laptop is:

bios-version:68TT2 Ver. F.02
system-manufacturer:Hewlett-Packard
system-product-name:HP Compaq nx6325 (EY349EA#AKD)
system-version:F.02

To make my mic work I've added

    options snd-hda-intel model=hp position_fix=1 enable=yes

at the end of

/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

and then I've set Capture and Mic Boost to the max in Alsa Mixer.

To fix the card reader I've added a small script to execute in runlevels 3-5:

setpci -s 02:04.2 4c=0x22 #if "0x22" doesn't work use "22" instead

You should substitute the number "02:04.2" with the one shown in

lspci |grep storage

To make battery status update properly I had to unload psmouse module before each restart or shutdown or ACPI would get corrupted (see http://home.no/slazz/nx7400/#badstate ). I've added

modprobe -r psmouse

to /etc/init.d/halt and /etc/init.d/reboot just before 'halt' and 'reboot' commands. This also fixes sluggish BIOS startup.

I've also noticed that after I resume from sleep or hibernation, the laptop speakers stay turned on, even when headphones are plugged in. To fix it I had to put:

MODULES="snd_hda_intel"

in /etc/default/acpi-support (near "# Add modules to this list to have them removed before suspend and reloaded" line)

Kubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn" i386

Przemkus: I've added information about this version of Kubuntu.

My laptop is:

bios-version:68TT2 Ver. F.06
system-manufacturer:Hewlett-Packard
system-product-name:HP Compaq nx6325 (EY343EA#AKD)
system-version:F.06

Don't use fglrx if it's not necessary, cause it hangs while logging off and the brightness +/- special keys not always work.

You will need to use ndiswrapper to run wireless connection.

There are problems with sleep and hibernation, the cpu fan doesn't start after waking laptop up, so it is necessary to turn the fan on manually by executing this script:

# public domain 2007 - Markus Brechtel (chaotika) <markus@b-r-e-c-h-t-e-l.net>
# This script makes the fans wich ran before suspend come up after resume again on HP nx6325.

acpi -t
cat /proc/acpi/fan/*/*

for fanstate in $( ls /proc/acpi/fan/*/state ); do
        echo 0 > $fanstate;
done

cat /proc/acpi/fan/*/*

There is a problem (in all linux distros) with non-linear volume scale. All control of volume depends on range about 50%-100% of volume control, so concerning laptop hardware volume control buttons it's quite irritating Wink ;)

Kubuntu "Gutsy Gibbon" development Tribe-5 amd64

Przemkus: I've added information about this version of Kubuntu.

My laptop is:

bios-version:68TT2 Ver. F.06
system-manufacturer:Hewlett-Packard
system-product-name:HP Compaq nx6325 (EY343EA#AKD)
system-version:F.06

While using fglrx the brightness +/- special keys not always work.

Wireless doesn't even need fwcutter, it works right away and connection quality seems to be better.

There is a problem (in all linux distros) with non-linear volume scale. All control of volume depends on range about 50%-100% of volume control, so concerning laptop hardware volume control buttons it's quite irritating Wink ;)

Wiki page comments

Please do not add Kubuntu (and other derivatives) when the same Ubuntu version is already added to the table. For example: Kubuntu 7.04 has exactly the same kernel and drivers as Ubuntu 7.04 so everything that works in Ubuntu 7.04 will work in Kubuntu 7.04 and vice versa. Same for things that don't work.

Info about Ubuntu 6.06 and 6.10 has been cut out because it's practically obsolete. Only 7.04 and 7.10 should be left. --AzraelNightwalker


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