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Monday, 18 May 2009

All the Linux information for you HP Pavilion dv4z dv5z dv6z dv7z and Compaq CQ4x

HP Pavilion dvXz

This team is a group of HP Pavilion dvXz owners and/or developers interested in getting it to work 100% under Linux. This laptop "z" series features a discrete ATI graphics card and comes with different screen size configurations (dv2/dv4/dv5/dv6/dv7/Compaq-CQ4x).

You can check the model and generation of you laptop with this command:
sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name

There are currently around ~90 users that have installed Linux (not only Ubuntu) on this laptop, some of them members of this Launchpad group.

Please subscribe to this team if you are new and own or develop for this HP Pavilion dvXz series laptop with discrete ATI graphics card (not the one with Intel or Nvidia graphics).

Some users of this laptop seem to be having troubles getting all sound features to work. In several cases, these problems seem to have been solved by using Ubuntu 9.04 (sometimes 8.10). Some other reports on ways to solving them here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6938038&postcount=20
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6975253&postcount=21
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6194461&postcount=3

There are wireless issues with Ubuntu 8.04, but these seem to be solved in 9.04 or 8.10.

A few people has reported issues with screen brightness control. A possible solution here:
http://lofspot.net/blog/2009/1/12/reduce-brightness-on-hp-pavilion-dv5-1020ep-ubuntu-810-64-bi.html

Some users have issues with the Atheros driver. A possible solution here:
http://blog.hyperandy.com/2008/11/01/atheros-ar242x-ubuntu-810-ibex/
http://madberry.org/2008/11/how-to-get-atheros-ar242x-to-work-on-810-intrepid-ibex
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1120259

Some users have issues with the r8168 ethernet device. A possible solution here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/208012

Some users have issues with suspend. A possible solution here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HPDV51124CA

Internal launchpad mailing list:
http://lists.launchpad.net/dv4z/

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