HP G-series laptop: budget-minded G62m

HP G-series laptop and Linux

HP slips out budget-minded G62m, Pavilion dv7t laptops -- Engadget

No 3D or over-the-top designs here, but HP has just rolled out a pair of new laptops for those simply looking for the basics. First up is the 15.6-inch G62m series laptop (pictured above), which packs a 2.2GHz Celeron 900 processor, 3GB or DDR3 RAM, a 320GBHard Drive, and integrated Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics on the base model, and starts at just $529.99 (a few upgrades are available, though you're stuck at the Celeron level for processors). On the slightly higher-end is the 17.3-inch Pavilion dv7t, which is considerably configurable, but starts out with a Core i3-380M processor, 4GB of RAM, a 500GB hard drive, and the same integrated Intel graphics for $774.99 (after a $150 instant rebate and $25 coupon). Hit up the links below to check out all the configuration options available.

Howto fix flipped webcam Asus U33Jc Ubuntu 10.10

wget http://people.fedoraproject.org/~jwrdegoede/v4l-utils-0.8.2-test.tar.gz
ls -d /usr/lib64
ls -d /usr/lib32
tar xvfz v4l-utils-0.8.2-test.tar.gz
cd v4l-utils-0.8.2-test/lib
make PREFIX=/usr
sudo make install PREFIX=/usr
sudo apt-get install libc6-dev
make clean
make PREFIX=/usr CFLAGS=-m32 LDFLAGS=-m32 LIBDIR=/usr/lib32
sudo make install PREFIX=/usr LIBDIR=/usr/lib32
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

cat /usr/bin/skype-wrapper
#!/bin/sh

if [ ! -e ~/.Skype/shared.xml ]; then
  mkdir -p ~/.Skype
  cp /usr/share/skype/shared.xml ~/.Skype/shared.xml
fi

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so  /usr/bin/skype "$@"

Howto fix sound in headphones and speakers for HP G-series laptops

Ubuntu linux sound in headphones and speakers

Ubuntu sound problem in HP Dell Toshiba and other laptops and desktops

Linux Best Seller laptop teams continue growing

After more than a year since it's creation, the http://linux-best-seller-laptops.blogspot.com/ website has compiled information for many best seller laptop launchpad teams.

Right now, the HP G-series Launchpad team has more than 60 members, followed by the HP Envy series and the Lenovo G-series teams. Other teams in this linux best seller laptops website are the Sony Vaio E-series, the ASUS N-series and the Lenovo IdeaPad U-series, all of them with over ten team members and growing.

Howto fix audio on HP G72 Linux Ubuntu 10.04

Doodle: HP G60/G70 Linux November 2009 Poll

With Ubuntu 10.04 on the G72-110EL everything works out of the box, except for audio, but it's a quick fix:
-in System Administration: add the ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev repository
-in Terminal: sudo apt-get install linux-alsa-driver-modules-`uname -r`

Linux Asus N-series laptop in Launchpad

Asus N-series laptop in Launchpad

This team is a group of Asus N-Series laptop
owners and/or developers interested in getting it to work 100% under
Linux (e.g., N61Jv, N61JV-X2, N71JV-X1,N61JQ-X1, N61JQ-A1, N71JQ-X1,
Asus N82Jv, etc).

Please subscribe to this team if you are new. If you have 1 minute to
spare, please participate to the poll below:

http://www.doodle.com/xp3sfyu4e3z9bs6c

You can check the model and details of you laptop with these
commands:

sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name

sudo dmidecode -s system-version

lspci -vnnn | perl -lne 'print if /^\d+\:.+(\[\S+\:\S+\])/'

Sony Vaio E-series ATI Mobility Radeon 5650 remove watermark

Ubuntu Forums - View Single Post - [SOLVED] ATI Mobility Radeon 5650 Driver Problem

remove_watermark.sh
How to remove watermark reposted from BaffledMollusc

Quote:

Right click on the desktop and choose Create Document -> Empty File
Call it something like "remove_watermark.sh"
Double click on the file you've created to open it in the text editor
Paste the following text into the text editor

Code:

#!/bin/sh
DRIVER=/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
for x in $(objdump -d $DRIVER|awk '/call/&&/EnableLogo/{print "\\x"$2"\\x"$3"\\x"$4"\\x"$5"\\x"$6}'); do
sed -i "s/$x/\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90/g" $DRIVER
done

Save the file and close the text editor
Right click on the desktop icon you've created and choose "Properties->Permissions"
Tick the box "allow executing file as program"
Close the properties dialog
Open a terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal)
Type the following two lines into the terminal, pressing enter after each line

cd Desktop
sudo sh remove_watermark.sh

Now enter your login password when prompted

Finally log out and back in and the watermark will hopefully be gone!

Installing Ubuntu 10.04 on HP G60 laptop

Posting this message that was sent to the mailing list:
Re: [G60-g70] Blank screen during and after installation

I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on an HP G60-458DX. No problems, and nothing like the blank screen problems Wade reported. However, the "clean install" was Ubuntu 9.10 and then I upgraded to 10.04.

Howto Lenovo G550 wireless

HOWTO: Use b43 driver with 14e4:4315 (Broadcom bcm4312 rev 01) - Page 47 - Ubuntu Forums

Find here a HOWTO document on how to make the Linux b43 wireless driver work for laptops like the Lenovo G550:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8857311&postcount=461

Linux on a Toshiba Satellite U500 series

There is a Linux Launchpad Team for owners/developers of the Toshiba Satellite U500 Series laptop:

http://launchpad.net/~toshiba-u500-series