An advice:

instead of running in a separate terminal:
[code] while true; do sudo killall -9 vmware-modconfig-console; sleep 1; done [/code]

try to:

[code] export VMWARE_SKIP_MODULES=true [/code]

and then start the installer in the same terminal. It should be work and next you can proceed with the rest of this fantastic tutorial

I’m trying to fix the DSDT and fan control on my HP Pavilion DV7-1145ef. I’m using the last BIOS (F.2C) and I deactivated “Fan always on”.

I’m coming from two others articles about DSDT :
- http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Hardware/Pavilion-1150-em-Fan-Noise/m-p/25553#M3391
- http://notebookequus.blogspot.com/

Thanks to your article I now understand that the values about the fan control are coded differently on the recent Pavilions.

However, in my DSDT, I can’t find those different _OFF functions, there is only one :


PowerResource(FN00, 0x0, 0x0)
{
Method(_STA, 0x0, Serialized)
{
If(ECON)
{
If(\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC0_.FAN1)
{
Return(One)
}
Else
{
Return(Zero)
}
}
Return(One)
}
Method(_ON_, 0x0, Serialized)
{
If(ECON)
{
Store(One, \_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC0_.FAN1)
}
}
Method(_OFF, 0x0, Serialized)
{
If(ECON)
{
Store(Zero, \_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC0_.FAN1)
}
}
}
Device(FAN_)
{
Name(_HID, 0xb0cd041)
Name(_UID, Zero)
Name(_PR0, Package(0x1)
{
FN00
})
}


Here is the full DSDT : http://drop.io/hidden/lsoi26pttonrng/asset/ZHNkdC1hc2w%253D

Do you have any idea maybe ?

Thanks.

my 05_debian_theme lines look like this

[code]use_bg=true
if [ "$GRUB_TERMINAL" = "gfxterm" ] ; then
for i in {/boot/grub,/usr/share/images/grub}/Sparkler.{png,tga} ; do
if is_path_readable_by_grub $i ; then
....
[/code]

The solution is reducing the memory allocated to the Guest OS. Keep it half of the host and you would rarely face that issue again. It could also be a memory leak of wmWare itself, in this case we can do nothing but upgrade the program when an update is released.
.

One hint for the suspend/hibernate chapter: I run a dv9500 with the most recent BIOS, but after a clean install of 9.10, the machine hung while trying to hibernate. There are two more solutions to this topic, one is to use the package “uswsusp” instead of the default pm-utils. The other is to list modules (mostly wifi) to unload before suspending or hibernating. Google “SUSPEND_MODULES” or have a look here:

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/fix-for-suspend-and-hibernation-problem-for-laptops.html

Best regards,
Uwe