HowTo: Ubuntu Linux on HP Pavilion series laptops
September 8th, 2007 at 11:40am |
QUESTA GUIDA E’ DISPONIBILE ANCHE IN ITALIANO (aggiornata di rado)
This guide guides you through Ubuntu Linux setup and tweaking. It applies to all HP Pavilion computers with Intel Centrino processors, Santa Rosa platform, and AMD Turion platform.
Almost almost all features of HP Pavilion DV2000 DV6000 and DV9000 series are fully supported by newest Ubuntu: Installation and configuration of Ubuntu on HP Pavilion dv6000 is easier and much faster then installation of Windows 7!
Changelog:
2010 08 24 - workaroud for disable/enable touchpad freeze (many thanks Uwe!) 2010 05 01 - improved audio support on HP Pavilion DV6 (thanks Flameclaw!) 2010 02 24 - more on suspend/standby issues (thanks Uwe!) 2009 11 04 - improved audio support through alsa backport drivers for on latest HP Pavilion models 2009 10 13 - added some more boot parameters to overcome ACPI issues at boot 2009 05 19 - fixed resume from suspend/standby issues in Pavilion DV4 DV5 and DV7 models (thanks Enrico) 2009 05 19 - internal microphone support for Pavilion DV4 DV5 and DV7 models (thanks Enrico) 2009 05 12 - updated fingerprint authentication schema either/or 2009 03 28 - added script to automatically update alsa audio drivers to latest stable version to support recent laptops audio subsystem 2009 03 28 - added support for Feiya Technology webcams 2009 03 27 - updated wireless section to support Atheros and better support Broadcom wireless cards 2009 03 25 - updated to Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 2009 03 07 - further suspend debugging 2009 01 18 - Added details on supposed hard disk wear out fears. 2009 01 17 - Updated S-Video support for Intel video cards (thanks ErikK) 2009 01 14 - HDMI support updated (thanks Giorgio) 2008 10 26 - upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex 2008 09 01 - added multiple authentication schemas for fingerprint authentication 2008 08 25 - added workaround for touchpad losing vertical scroll functionality and freezing 2008 07 29 - added support for DV9000 series Ricoh integrated webcam (thanks yecarrillo!) 2008 07 18 - fixed a typo and tagged first step as not not more necessary in fingerprinting suppot 2008 07 16 - improved guide on biometrics fingerprinting support to support log in and sudo auth. 2008 05 22 - Firmware F.2A has been reported to fix cpu-freq related problems on INTEL dv2000 series (incl. dv2765tx) download here 2008 05 01 - published a tutorial for customizing touch sensible buttons 2008 04 20 - more on brightness control failures on dv2xxx here (thanks Chris!) 2008 04 16 - updates on the bluetooth issue at boot and on Intel wireless issues on Ubuntu Hardy 2008 04 15 - address Broadcom wireless losing signal design flaw on dv60xx-dv63xx and dv90xx-93xx. 2008 04 01 - wireless LED now toggling on/off (at last!) 2008 04 02 - updated and improved my power saving tips, getting as low as ~13watts, no joke! 2008 03 31 - added support for Broadcom Wireless cards shipped with AMD Turion laptops2008 03 28 - added support for modem and lightscribe on x86_64 (64bit) Ubuntu (thanks rac) 2008 03 16 - added workaround for bluetooth module preventing the system to boot (thanks Philip) 2008 01 31 - new host, restyled, cleaned, improved some sections with tips from old comments 2008 01 16 - added more powersaving options (sata link and audio suspend) in Laptop Mode energy saving
Check also my other posts related to HP Pavilion laptops
Index
- Choosing the Right Ubuntu CD
- Booting into Ubuntu
- Installing Ubuntu
- Video Device
- Wireless Adapter
- Webcam
- Touchpad
- Media Cards Reader
- VGA, S-Video & HDMI Outputs
- Remote Control
- Firewire
- Battery Recalibration
- Energy Saving
- Suspend & Hibernate
- Lightscribe Support
- Audio Subsistem
- Fingerprint Scanner
- Hardware Sensors
- Modem
- Touch Sensible Buttons
- Ethernet
- Bluetooth
- TV Tuner
- Hard Disk
Related posts:
- Linux Power Saving Tweaks for HP Pavilion laptops
- Call for enabling HP Pavilion internal softmodem
- Ottimizzazioni per il Risparmio Energetico per portatili HP Pavilion su Ubuntu Linux
- [EN] Configure HP Pavilion QuickPlay multimedia buttons in Ubuntu Linux
- Guida per Ottimizzare Ubuntu Linux sui portatili HP Pavilion
- How to update ALSA to latest version easily
- Ad Hoc Wireless Networking in Linux
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Excellent, very helpful article. On my DV2058ea with the latest firmware from HP (F39) the brightness keys don’t work, but I found a very helpful fix on the Ubuntu forums, might be helpful for some other people:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=673946
It’s for Gutsy but in my case it applied for Heron as well
. Heron did support the brightness keys in one of the beta releases but I think a kernel upgrade broke it.
Hi!
My laptop is a HP Pavilion dv6710ea. I followed the steps you indicated for the wireless
conection, but still no success…
After I write “sudo ndiswrapper -l” the output is “bcmwl5 : driver installed”, but I still don’t
have wireless internet. Any idea?
Thanks!
Hi… I use this guide to use the Wireless and the webcam and works really fine! Congratulations fot the guide… Another thing, in the wireless part, please put an suggestion in the directory of the driver, because the driver puts in the folder like DRIVER_ES, and not in the DRIVER folder, this is just a suggestion…
Thanks
P.D.: I test the guide in my DV2715NR
Glad to see it helped you!
Thanks for the suggestion, I did not actually fully understand it however I renamed the driver folder into broadcom… hope you meant it simply needed to be renamed to avoid confusion.
Cheers!
i talk about change of some lines the guide of the wireless for this lines…
Install ndiswrapper and follow the procedure:
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils
sudo ndiswrapper -i $HOME/broadcom/DRIVER_EN/bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -l
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
Thanks again
P.D.: i add the folder DRIVER_EN
Thank you for the excellent tutorial. Really useful!!
To Yits:
I would recommend using the GParted LiveCD to resize your Windoze partition, it’s quite safe though I would probably recommend backing up anything important. Just leave a blank area on your hard disk for Ubuntu to install itself on, and tell Ubuntu setup to fill the space, easy!
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
title=”pavillion dv6825el”
on this model is possible install ubuntu 64bits?
linus,
of course it is possible!
Your laptop has an Intel Penryn Core 2 Duo T8100 processor which is capable running EMT64 extensions.
Here is a review in Italian (sorry but I haven’t found it in English):
http://notebookitalia.it/scheda-tecnica-recensione/hp-pavilion-dv6825el-4.html
Thank you so much for this. This was the most helpful thing all week!