Comments on: HowTo: Ubuntu Linux on HP Pavilion series laptops

By: Uwe

Uwe — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:13:08 +0000

Thank you very much, Aldeby, for this great collection of tips! I found it after solving almost all problems in 9.04 and wished that I had found your site much earlier.

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

By: aldeby

aldeby — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:38:53 +0000

Thank you very much for your feedback kronictokr! It’s been really appreciated!
I’ll test myself your advice as soon as possible.

By: oz

oz — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:46:51 +0000

I have HP Pavilion DV 6-1105 ee, intalling everything is fine. soundcard detected but sound not working(no sound). please help…..

By: kronictokr

kronictokr — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:32:48 +0000

you may also want to check out this post

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1182587

talks about configuring alsabase.conf file to add a couple lines. if you have knowledgeit would be great to confirm this. my solution works fine, butwould it be better to mod the conf file?

By: kronictokr

kronictokr — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:29:58 +0000

this works awsome for me, it includes the backports pakage as well as the one for wireless and a couple extra’s. but works like a charm and i get great sound. best thing is its very easy

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1395089

By: aldeby

aldeby — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:50:51 +0000

Thank you very much for pointing out this mistake Thomas! Your help has been much appreciated! Cheers!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:53:04 +0000

Great how-to by the way. Nice job!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:52:38 +0000

In the audio subsystem, the appropriate package is

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic-generic

(you need the word generic in the end)

By: Léo

Léo — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:29:38 +0000

Thanks!

I’ll try that.

By: aldeby

aldeby — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:47:13 +0000

I’m sorry but I missed your point.
What are you willing to do? HP recovery DVDs when used will completely erase your whole hard disk. So is highly discouraged using them. The recovery partition itself is simply a waste of space if you are capable of instaling an operative system yourself. You may use either vmware or virtualbox, the latter being free and opensource. To install windows you may use whatever CD/DVD you want, even a p2p downloaded one, provided that you use the serial product key you have bought (you may see it sticked on the bottom of your computer.