Installing Debian on HP Pavilion dv5 1030er

Last updated at 15.04.2009

• For your knowledge: HP Pavilion series has problems with south bridge.

General Hardware Specifications of HP Pavilion dv5 1030er

Hardware Components	Status under Linux	Notes
AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Ultra ZM-82 2200 MHz	Works	For AMD PowerNow!™ need to install cpufrequtils
15,4″ WXGA BrightView 1280 x 800	Works	Install video drivers (see below)
ATI Mobility™ Radeon® HD3450 256Mb	Works	Need to compile ATI Linux driver with «module-assistant auto-install fglrx». Use version 8.12 or higher, because 8.11 works with some bugs. Also works git version of RadeonHD, but I didn’t tried it yet.
250 GB hard drive	Works	«watch -n0.3 cat /sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d/position» :)
Lightscribe Super Multi DVD Writer (+/-R +/-RW) with Double Layer support	Works	Double layer support didn’t tried yet
56K modem	Didn’t tried yet
Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller	Works
Atheros RF2425 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter	Works	Need to compile kernel module with «sudo module-assistant auto-install madwifi». Download last svn-version of madwifi driver if module doesn’t compile.
Bluetooth	Works	Install «KBluetooth»
HP Pavilion WebCam with Integrated Microphone	Works	Install «cheese» or something else. Also «mplayer tv://dev/video0 -vo aa» makes wonders with audience. :)
Sound	Works	Sounds well, I like it. But audio capture needed careful setting.
Touch pad	Works
Sensor multimedia keys & remote control infrared port	Works	Enable «kmilo» in KDE Control Center. Are you using KDE?
Integrated finger print reader	Didn’t tried yet	I don’t need this shit
Card reader	Works
USB ports	Works
VGA port	Works	Install «ATI catalyst control center»
HDMI, eSata, IEEE 1394	I only tried 1394-port. It works.

This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.26 up to 2.6.30.

Unresolved issues

• KMilo randomly crashes. I willn’t fix it, because I just turn it off.
• You may have some mysterious problems with random rewinding in mplayer. It happens because mplayer controls by HP protectsmart accelerometer. Just do «sudo rmmod -f joydev» and all will work fine.

Hardware information


[komar@kobook ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host
Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI
bridge (ext gfx port 0)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI
bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI
bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI
bridge (PCIE port 2)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI
bridge (PCIE port 5)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA
Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB
OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1
Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI
Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB
OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1
Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI
Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev
3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE
Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel
HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host
controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h
HyperTransport Configuration (rev 40)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h DRAM
Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h
Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Link
Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility
Radeon HD 3400 Series
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device
[Radeon HD 34xx Series]
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x
802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
0a:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device2380
0a:00.1 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2382
0a:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device
2381
0a:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2383
0a:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2384


My contact Information

My email/jabber is apsheronets@gmail.com.
I can understand only english and russian languages.

Links

• Official HP site
• ATI proprietary videodrivers
• RadeonHD — opensource videodrivers
• The MadWifi project — drivers for wireless networking
• Linux-laptop project