HPNX8220-PG802

  • Contact: JaniMonoses

  • Make: HP
  • Model: NX8220 (PG802ET)
  • Website:
  • S/N: CNU5241H27

Current Issues

Final Breezy installs but X fails to start. The last known version of the xserver-xorg-driver-ati package to work is 6.8.2-75. Unfortunately I only tested the daily generated the day before RC and that was working, and subsequent updates did not bring in the new X versions (-76 and -77) because of my fault. To workaround the installer throwing you in the console, add Option "noaccel" to the driver section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf after installation finishes. Then gdm should start but screen redraw will be slow. On i386 you can install the .deb attached to the bug linked below.

Hardware details

in Breezy (current stable)

in Dapper May 20th

Installation works?

No (http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17421)

Yes

Hardware Information

Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

in Breezy (current stable)

in Dapper Flight 4 (current development)

Screen

Yes

Yes

Correct resolution?

Yes

Yes

Correct refresh rate?

Yes

Yes

3D Acceleration

Not with ati, yes with fglrx 8.19.10 including suspend (reported by Simon Bergamin)

Yes with ATI including suspend/hibernate/resume

External monitor works?

Yes

Untested

External monitor - mirrors

Yes

Untested

External monitor - extend desktop

Yes

Untested

Power Management

Battery detected?

Yes

Yes

Hibernates?

Yes

Yes

Sleep

Yes (but sound is only heard from headphone not speaker on resume)

21574

Dim monitor on battery

Yes

Yes

Blank monitor on inactivity

Yes

Untested

Lid Close

Blanks screen

Blank/suspend configurable from g-p-m

Cpu frequency scaling

Yes

Yes

Sound

Sound works?

Yes (except after resume from suspend)

Ditto

21574

Correct volume?

Yes

Yes

Hardware volume switch

Yes

Yes

Headphone jack

Yes

Yes

Mic jack

Untested

Yes

Networking

Wired NIC

Yes

Yes

Wireless NIC

Yes

Detected, but no AP-s around to test

PCMCIA NIC

Yes

Yes

|| Firewire || Untested || Untested ||

Bluetooth

Yes

Untested

Modem

Untested

Untested

Infrared

Untested

Untested

Touchpad & Mice

Touchpad

Yes

Yes

Touchpad - Doubletap = double click

Yes

Yes

Touchpad - Scroll down side

Yes

Yes

External mouse - USB

Yes

Yes but regression from breezy on hibernate

34066

Additional Hardware

CD/DVD drive

Yes

Yes

PCMCIA cards

Yes

Yes

Card reader(s)

Untested (No linux driver for this Texas Instruments SD/smart-card reader)

Untested (driver is available). Slot detected, need card to test it

Function and other keys

Fn key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Hoary (current stable)?

in Breezy (current development)?

+ F3 - Sleep

Yes

Yes (only after configured from g-p-m preferences though)

+ F4 - Screen on/off

No

No

+ F8 - Battery

No

Pops up g-p-m information bubble

+ F9 - Screen brightness down

Yes

Yes

+ F10 - Screen brightness up

Yes

Yes

+ F11 - Screen brightness/contrast?

Yes

Yes

Key (i)

Yes

Yes - launches yelp

Notes

There's one regeression I see from breezy, the mouse sometimes dead on resume The speakers mute on resume problem is the same as in breezy better than breezy: 3D with the free driver out of the box and probably the sd/mmc reader (not tested)

(Joseph Heled) Another breezy regression seem to be the external monitor. Under default install the KDE control panel fails to set it up. When resurrecting the working breezy xorg.conf, external monitor mirroring sort of works - it flickers which seems to indicate it got either the resoultion or refresh rate wrong (the LCD external monitor has the same resolution of the laptop and worked fine with breezy). Other annoying features include failure of KDE monitor control panel with the modified xrog.conf and the screen coming up in 640x480 when X starts up with an external monitor plugged in. (I am running dapper with the latest updates). It is fair to mention that I got the laptop back with a new motherboard (after it fried itself in less than a year), so the display hardware may have changed. I know that the etherent and wireless have been transposed (eth0 <==> eth1)

I have a wireless keyboard/mouse attached, and from time to time the mouse goes dead. removing and re-inserting the usb receiver restores the mouse. (keyboard is fine throuout)

LaptopTestingTeam/Old/HPNX8220-PG802 (last edited 2011-03-09 20:42:22 by 94)