anyone install Linux on a hp dv6000/dv9000 series?


Recommended Posts

i will be getting a hp dv9500t soon (probably delivered in 2 weeks.... hopefully)

the first thing i want to do is reformat, repartition, and install linux. just wondering if anyone else did it yet, on a dv6000/dv6500 or a dv9000/dv9500 series..

if no one did it yet, then i would be pleased to make some sort of guide.... although i would like to warn that im a straight up newbie when it comes to installing packages on linux.

i have arch installed on a dv9000. every single thing works (with some work) including webcam and cardreader. i did run a live ubuntu cd though for a few days while i decided what i wanted to install to and everything worked off the bat that i tried on the card reader. if you have any major problems, feel free to pm me and ill see if i can at least point you in the right direction.

i have arch installed on a dv9000. every single thing works (with some work) including webcam and cardreader. i did run a live ubuntu cd though for a few days while i decided what i wanted to install to and everything worked off the bat that i tried on the card reader. if you have any major problems, feel free to pm me and ill see if i can at least point you in the right direction.

thats awesome! im thinking of either ubuntu, fedora, or knoppix. maybe all of them.... if i get good at configuring the hardware. ill try arch as well.

thanks for the help offer man, definately looking forward to that!

I've got a dv9000t cto that I've been running Mint on for several months. Works great. Even the Quickplay buttons work with RhythmBox.

thats good! what did you have to configure and download/install?

i cant wait for delivery!

I have SuSE 10.2 running perfectly on my dv6200 CTO laptop. Wireless was the hardest to get going but I accomplished that and have posted a wireless how-to on the HP forums. http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/...hreadId=1130211

thats good! what did you have to configure and download/install?

Jeez... just the nvidia drivers if I remember correctly. GeforceGo 7600. I installed some extra doo-dads for the touchpad and wireless... but everything worked "out of the box".

@ my Hp Pavilion 6114tx (6000 series) ,Opensuse 10.2 installed without any special modification.. I even got Cam working but by third party driver.

thats great! does Opensuse have better driver support or something? or is it pretty much the same as other distros?

I have SuSE 10.2 running perfectly on my dv6200 CTO laptop. Wireless was the hardest to get going but I accomplished that and have posted a wireless how-to on the HP forums. http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/...hreadId=1130211

wow man, thanks for the link! that makes things alot easier.... i always have trouble with wireless (and also graphics!!!)

i have an hp dv2315nr notebook and to get the wireless working on linux is beyond frustrating. i swear if linux didnt have as many issues with different hardware as it does, it would grow ten-fold.

i agree........ i wish companies made linux drivers too..... ones that work

Jeez... just the nvidia drivers if I remember correctly. GeforceGo 7600. I installed some extra doo-dads for the touchpad and wireless... but everything worked "out of the box".

thats cool. :) thanks. you can get the driver online right?

I run Ubuntu Feisty on a HP DV6110US laptop, it was a bit difficult to get rolling at first, have to boot the live CD with noacpi nolcpi and with VESA.

The NV Driver won't work, and the laptop is prone to lockups until the Nvidia drivers are installed, once the nvidia package is installed.

Otherwise the laptop is good, the wireless works good with ndiswrapper.

  • 3 weeks later...

I just installed Ubuntu 7.04 as dual-boot (need Win for work and school) on a dv8000t, installing Linux on a second blank drive. Ubuntu live CD handled the installation fine on the second drive, modifying the MBR on the Windows drive. GRUB comes up OK on boot or after waking up from hibernate on Windows. After installing the Nvidia binary drivers for the GeforceGo 7600 (used Envy installer found on the Ubuntu forums) and tweaking the desktop, I only have two issues:

1) Suspend and hibernate don't work. Laptop appears to come alive, but screen stays totally black. I've tried uswsusp (s2ram and s2disk), but it doesn't recognize my machine. Still looking on a solution for that.

2) If a storage device is plugged into a USB port, GRUB gives Error 17, and have to remove it and re-power. Haven't looked for a solution yet. No biggie, unless I get suspend/hibernate to work.

Please let me know if anyone see any workarounds to these issues.

Issue #2 is almost certainly because your BIOS presents the drives in a different order when you have the USB drive plugged in.

Grub is pointed to drive 2 (hd(1,x), for example) when you installed it, but your BIOS put your USB key first when you boot with it installed. Now, your linux drive is #3 (hd(2,x) in the same example) with the drive installed.

dv9500t is perfect out of the box with Ubuntu as far as I know. wireless works, microphones work, fingerprint reader works, sound works, video works, etc etc. I hear you can get the webcam to work too. Suspend and hibernate should work on the 9500t as well. If they don't, install some packages from trevino's repository (he has some packages called like suspend2 or something that adds alot better support for suspend/hibernate and frequency scaling). Speaking of frequency scaling, I believe this works out of the box as well. Just about the perfect linux machine if you ask me ;) (In case you couldn't tell, I did alot of research on this one. Mine is going to be ordered next week ;))

edit: to those who say you have trouble with WiFi on these HP machines, take note that the dv9500t runs Intel (and thus intel wireless which is supported out of the box) and not AMD which uses Broadcom (the militantly anti-linux company)

Edited by Robgig1088

thanks so much for the tips and replies! i havent gotten around to installing linux on my native hardware yet (just running VMWare). i took out Vista and installed XP (pain to find the drivers and all) and now im running Fedora in VMWare. i like it alot. i still have the ubuntu CD that i made, but i think they are coming up with a new version soon...

anyway, if the dv9500t is perfect out of the box, then im happy and cant wait to try it out!!!!

i just love this computer. i didnt get the top of the line hardware, but i love it.

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Posts

    • >defenders of AI-generated artworks often claim that AI is just a tool It is not. It is the inhuman artist replacement. The human writing the prompt is the employer/manager requesting the work product of the artist -- a supervisory/descriptive job that doesn't carry with it any rights to the copyright of that work product at all. And since AI is not human itself, it can't gain copyright for anything it is asked to regurgitate or hallucinate, so it can't transfer that copyright to the employer/manager/human who asked for the output. This was all legally reaffirmed last year. So, no, while there are AI tools, AI slopware generation is NOT a "tool" in the legal definition of that word.
    • As long as i get to play GTA 6 before it ends 😂😂
    • Google is opening the world's first AI museum in Los Angeles by Ivan Jenic Image via: Google Ever since AI image generators went mainstream, the debate over whether AI-generated art is real art hasn't let up. Those who don’t consider AI to be art say that if a machine does the creating and anyone can prompt it, there’s no skill involved, and therefore no art is produced. The counter-argument is equally persistent, as defenders of AI-generated artworks often claim that AI is just a tool, and that every major technological breakthrough, like the camera or the computer, was met with the same skepticism before eventually being accepted as a legitimate creative medium. Google’s position in this debate is clear. Which is no surprise, as the company is investing billions in AI infrastructure. And now, in efforts to encourage people to use its AI even more, Google is opening Dataland on June 20, which it's calling the world's first AI arts museum. Located inside The Grand LA, a Frank Gehry-designed building in Los Angeles, the museum spans 25,000 square feet. The museum is built around a collaboration with media artist Refik Anadol, who has worked with Google since 2016. The inaugural exhibition is called Machine Dreams: Rainforest, and is powered by an AI model trained on “an extensive dataset of the natural world.” It generates 1.2 billion pixels of visuals in real time and reacts to visitors dynamically. The space also generates soundscapes, real-time emotion sensing, and algorithmically produced scents. Image via: Refik Anadol Studio / Google Google says that the museum is powered by its Gemini models, which run on Google Cloud. So, everything is generated inside one of Google’s AI data centers and is streamed to the museum. Alongside the museum opening, Google Arts & Culture is funding an AI Artist Residency, giving four artists $25,000 grants each, along with mentorship from Refik Anadol Studio and access to Google's machine learning tools. Their work will be shown at Dataland and on the Google Arts & Culture website later this year. Google’s AI museum will undoubtedly initiate a fired-up debate on social media, and we can’t wait to see the first reactions. Via: Smithsonian Magazine
    • Calling GTA 6 overhyped crap doesn’t make you edgy, it just makes you sound like someone who hasn’t enjoyed anything since the PS2 era.
    • I’m not arguing whether Rockstar likes money. Obviously, they do, they’re a business. I’m saying this isn’t new. They’ve always launched console first. This is just how Rockstar operates.
  • Recent Achievements

    • First Post
      AndreaB earned a badge
      First Post
    • Week One Done
      Huge Trailer earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • Week One Done
      Classifyskilleducation earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • One Month Later
      eurospharma62 earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • Week One Done
      With What earned a badge
      Week One Done
  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      570
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      178
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      74
    4. 4
      Michael Scrip
      68
    5. 5
      neufuse
      64
  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!