Installing debian linux on HP Pavilion dv5 1030er
- For your knowledge: HP Pavilion series has problems with south bridge, and also with the cooling system.
General Hardware Specifications of HP Pavilion dv5 1030er
| Hardware Components | Status under Linux | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Ultra ZM-82 2200 MHz | Works | For AMD PowerNow!™ need to install cpufrequtils |
| 15,4" WXGA BrightView 1280 x 800 | Works | Install video drivers (see below) |
| ATI Mobility™ Radeon® HD3450 256Mb | Works | Need to compile ATI Linux driver with module-assistant auto-install fglrx. Use version 8.12 or higher, because 8.11 works with some bugs.Also works git version of RadeonHD, but I didn't try it yet. |
| 250 GB hard drive | Works | watch -n0.3 cat /sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d/position :) |
| Lightscribe Super Multi DVD Writer (+/-R +/-RW) with Double Layer support | Works | Double layer support wasn't tried yet |
| 56K modem | Wasn't tried yet | |
| Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller | Works | |
| Atheros RF2425 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter | Works | sudo module-assistant auto-install madwifi. Download the last svn version of madwifi driver (svn co http://madwifi-project.org/svn/madwifi/trunk) if module doesn't compile.Just use open souce ath5k driver with modprobe ath5k |
| Bluetooth | Works | Install KBluetooth. Or blueman. Or something. |
| HP Pavilion WebCam with Integrated Microphone | Works | Install cheese or something else. Also mplayer tv://dev/video0 -vo aa makes wonders with audience. :) |
| Sound | Works | Sounds well, I like it. But audio capture needed careful setting. |
| Touch pad | Works | |
| Sensor multimedia keys & remote control infrared port | Works | Enable "kmilo" in KDE Control Center. Are you using KDE? |
| Integrated finger print reader | Wasn't tried yet | I don't need this shit |
| Card reader | Usually works | I got mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising SD card in dmesg sometimes. I don't know why. |
| USB ports | Works | |
| VGA port | Works | Install ATI catalyst control center |
| HDMI | Works | Use ATI catalyst control center (amdcccle) to set it up |
| eSata | Wasn't tried yet | |
| IEEE 1394 | Works |
This laptop is operating under kernel version 2.6.26 up to 3.0.0-amd64.
Unresolved issues
- KMilo randomly crashes. I willn't fix it, because I just turn it off.
- You may have some mysterious problems with random rewinding in mplayer. It happens because mplayer controled by HP protectsmart accelerometer. I don't know how. Just do
sudo rmmod -f joydevand all will work fine.
Hardware information
[komar@kobook ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host
Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI
bridge (ext gfx port 0)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI
bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI
bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI
bridge (PCIE port 2)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI
bridge (PCIE port 5)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA
Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB
OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1
Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI
Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB
OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1
Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI
Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev
3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE
Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel
HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host
controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h
HyperTransport Configuration (rev 40)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h DRAM
Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h
Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Link
Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility
Radeon HD 3400 Series
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device
[Radeon HD 34xx Series]
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x
802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
0a:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device2380
0a:00.1 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2382
0a:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device
2381
0a:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2383
0a:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2384
My contact Information
See here.
I can understand only english and russian languages.
Links
- Official HP site
- A very good mainteance and service guide
- ATI proprietary videodrivers
- RadeonHD — opensource videodrivers
- The MadWifi project — drivers for wireless networking
- Linux-laptop project