HP Pavilion DV6-1115es

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1. Hardware information

1.1. Standard Features

List here the hardware components of your Laptop

2. CentOS-5.3

[ root@cien log]# uname -a
Linux cien 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:28:30 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 

2.1. Installation

Describe here how you performed the installation, what problems you had during the installation and what solved them.

2.2. Post-installation notes

Describe here what worked by default

Indicate if the following work with a standard install, took some additional effort, don't work or don't know. You can use lspci to collect information as to specific items present in your laptop. If your laptop doesn't have a particular item, just indicate "not present".

• CD/DVD read: WORKS

• CD/DVD write: NOT TESTED

• LAN: WORKS

• Wireless: NOT TESTED
• Sound: DON'T WORK (SOLVED; SEE BELOW)

• Video:WORKS PARTIALLY (with vesa driver; unable to configure 1366x768 resolution) (SOLVED; SEE BELOW)

• NTFS: DON'T WORK (SOLVED; SEE BELOW)

• USB: WORKS

• Firewire: NOT TESTED
• Media card reader: NOT TESTED

• Touchpad or other pointing device: WORKS

• Accelerator buttons (music, DVD, web, other): NOT TESTED
• Adaptive CPU speed: NOT TESTED
• Sense battery level: NOT TESTED
• Suspend (manual): NOT TESTED
• Suspend (close lid): NOT TESTED

2.2.1. Video

Describe additional post-installation steps for making video work:

The problem with the default installation vesa driver was:

- I was not able of configuring the 1366x768 resolution of my display.

- I was not able of configuring dual head display.

To obtainig the full functionality, I installed de fglrx driver (see below a lot of interesting links). The process:

1- Download the fglrx driver from the ATI site: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

2- Execute it as root:

# sh ati-driver-installer-9-9-x86.x86_64.run

3- I selected the following options:

• - Generate Distribution Specific Driver Package
• - Red Hat / RHEL5_64A

4- Install it:

[root@cien ~]# cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/
[root@cien ~]#
[/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64]# rpm -Uvh fglrx64_7_1_0-8.64-1.x86_64.rpm
Preparando...               ########################################### [100%]
  1:fglrx64_7_1_0          ########################################### [100%]

5- Use the aticonfig tool for configuring the X11 server:

[root@cien ~]# aticonfig   --initial

• If you wont dual head display configuration, you can do it with the "ATI Catalyst Control Center" (look for it in the menu) or with the command line:

[root@cien ~]# aticonfig   --initial=dual-head --desktop-setup=horizontal

6- Reboot

2.2.2. Sound

Describe additional post-installation steps for making Sound work:

The sound did't work with the default installation. What I did for give it up, was:

1- Install and configure de yum prioriities: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities

2- Install the ElRepo repo:

• http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php

3- Configure the priority for elrepo repo (I configured it with the value 5)

4- Install the kmod-alsa package drivers from elrepo:

[root@cien ~]# yum install kmod-alsa.x86_64

5- Reboot the laptop

6- Don't forget disabling the mutes... https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23757

2.2.3. NTFS

Describe additional post-installation steps for making NTFS work:

The NTFS did't work with the default installation (CentOS 5.3). What I did for give it up, was:

[ root@cien log]# yum install fuse.x86_64 fuse-ntfs-3g.x86_64

Take a look at the wiki for more information: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFS

2.3. Issues

2.3.1. Component X

Describe what existing problems you have with Component X and what you already investigated.

2.3.2. Component Y

Describe what existing problems you have with Component X and what you already investigated.

2.4. Models tested

List the different model sub-types this was tested with.

3. CentOS-4

Please add your experiences with CentOS-4 here.

4. Links

Add additional resources for your laptop here that helped you during the process. Also add links to vendor pages about this specific Laptop.

1. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01705411&cc=uk&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_UKEN HP dv6-1115es Entertainment Notebook PC - Product Specifications

2. http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=40479 Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T6400

GRAPHIC CARD:

3. http://ati.amd.com/products/mobilityradeonhd4500/index.html ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4500 Series Graphics - Overview

4. http://ati.amd.com/products/mobilityradeonhd4500/specs.html ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4500 Series Graphics - Specifications

5. http://ati.amd.com/products/catalyst/linux.html Frequently Asked Questions about the ATI Proprietary Linux Driver

6. http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx ATI Driver (fglrx)

7. http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux Distribution Page at the Unofficial ATI driver Wiki

8. http://ati.cchtml.com/ Unofficial ATI Linux Driver Bugzilla

9. http://www.rage3d.com/content/articles/atilinuxhowto/ ATI Radeon Linux How-To

10. http://www.rage3d.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=61&daysprune=30&order=asc&sort=title Rage3D Linux Discussion Forum

11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fglrx fglrx at Wikipedia

12. http://www.driverheaven.net/linux-radeon-display-drivers/ Forum about Linux Radeon Display Drivers (ATI)