HP Pavilion zd7000 series Notebook

AnimalMachine · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 3:47 pm Post subject:

I have a 7260 ... but my previous experience with an Athlon based HP laptop made me get a tray to use when sitting in the recliner, or laying in bed with the laptop. This one accomodates the 17" displays fine:

Targus Portable LapDesk for Notebooks

cybrjackle · Apprentice Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 248 Location: USA

Working xorg.conf (I'm in Fedora Core2, needed to get some stuff done) ;-)

But I've mixed a lot of things I've found on the net, my testing with gentoo/suse and here is a working one, with:
Touchpad mouse working
USB mouse working
1680x1050@24 Depth

addicha · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 11

I have the same notebook as xcable
I have read the brief talk about a flicker, and I've tryed everytrhing and nothing seems to get rif off a flicker about every 30 seconds on kde, usually hapens more oftern if i use the mouse(touchpad), if i dont touch it it doesnt flicker much if not at all.
Is this a problem with kde or my configuration. I hava disabled apm, loaded glx ...etc

I read something about konqueror having a flicker problem but im not sure if thats it.

Thanks

AnimalMachine · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:17 pm Post subject:

As far as I know I don't have any flicker ... but I had my machine lockup constantly when trying to setup X.

Through searching this forum, I found that there are some conflicts between the latest gentoo-dev-sources and the nvidia-kernel drivers. For atleast 2.6.7-gentoo-r13 & 2.6.8-gentoo-r1, my machine locks up if I try to use the nvidia driver. The module loads fine, but freezes when X is starting. None of the suggested fixes work: making sure 8k stacks are used, not using USB 2.0 (which would be a killer for me, but I tried it to see if it'd do the trick - no dice), running /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh ... nothing worked.

So I gave up and use the non-accelerated "nv" driver with xorg, and no lock-ups. I'm not looking to do 3d yet anyway, so hopefully this issue sorts out.

My xorg.conf is less sophisticated than what cybrjackle posted, so I won't be redundant. My only difference is that I have an additional USB mouse setup for a USB trackball I like to use.

BTW, with that touchpad, does the scroll-wheel-like functionality work for you? It didn't for me. I'm not sure if I have to set something else up.

cybrjackle · Apprentice Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 248 Location: USA

No, the wheel doesn't work on the track,

addicha · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 11

Actually my nvidia drivers works quite well.

and with regard to the scroll thing .. it does work. Read on page two on this thread(either 2 or 3) and youll see the directions for installing the synaptics drivers.

But anyways im gonna quote "bielbyb"
Here is the driver site: http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/

make sure you have the (CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV).
and (CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2) enebled in the kernel.
and finally use these settings from "bielbyb"

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "synaptics"
Identifier "touchpad"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "LeftEdge" "1900"
Option "RightEdge" "5400"
Option "TopEdge" "1900"
Option "BottomEdge" "4000"
Option "FingerLow" "25"
Option "FingerHigh" "30"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.02"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.0010"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
# Option "Repeater" "/dev/ps2mouse"
EndSection

of course make sure to download the synaptics drivers, extract, go to folder
and type
make
make install

pretty simple .. got it to work the first time

AnimalMachine · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:37 am Post subject: Re: Reply (flicker)

addicha · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 11

well for ndiswrapper 0.8 I have smp enabled and it works fine. And i have used both 2.6.7 and currently using 2.6.8 with not problems at all execpt the flicker.. I just installed gnome to see if it is with both environments, if not i quess ill conclude it's kde.
Tell me if you need me to post my kernel config file.. Pretty much the same as xcable with some minor changes. such as the two things mentioned before

well like you said nv drivers doesnt cause it and now im almost sure its something with nvidia drivers and kernel cuz it did it with gnome as well...
so fo those who are having this flicker problem.. try nv for now and let hope a better drivers gets released by nvidia

AnimalMachine · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:05 pm Post subject:

GreenPea · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2003 Posts: 25 Location: Boise ID

Just for reference, I am using the ZD7000 2.6.5-gentoo-r1, SMP enabled, ndiswrapper .8 - > works like a champ especially with the wireless-config script and useing the NVidia--6106 driver with no flicker. Havent been able to get 6111 to compile yet, but at this point, who cares, no flicker.

AnimalMachine · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 2:17 am Post subject:

Well, that was it. Ndiswrapper 0.8 will work with gentoo-dev-sources 2.8.1-gentoo-r1 with SMP enabled where ndiswrapper 0.9 would not.

Thanks again for the help.

addicha · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 11

GreenPea which specific card do you have?

AnimalMachine: your welcome, and yes i do use the gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.8. Yes i had the same problem with ndiswrapper... I knew 0.8 and up worked with smp so i tryed 0.9... and after pulling/lossing some hair i gave up and went back to 0.8.

btw, did you get the scroll thing on the touchpad to function?

AnimalMachine · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 2:59 pm Post subject:

I didn't get around to fooling with the touchpad. I've been using my usb trackball almost exclusively, so it hasn't been a big issue for me yet.

PS: This thread suggests that the new nvidia driver problems may be fixed up in 2.6.8.1-mm4. I'm not anxious enough to get it going yet, but maybe I'll test that out tonight.

GreenPea · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2003 Posts: 25 Location: Boise ID

GreenPea · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2003 Posts: 25 Location: Boise ID

ok kernel now at 2.6.8-r2-Gentoo smp , Nvidia drivers at 6111 and ndiswrapper .10 all working well, even got the glx working

AnimalMachine · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:46 am Post subject:

With 2.6.8-gentoo-r2 & SMP, I got ndiswrapper 0.10 working also, but the nvidia binary still locked up my system. Oh well.

cybrjackle · Apprentice Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 248 Location: USA

Ok, had more time.

Gentoo is back up and running, I have 1680x1050 w/ no flickering, I've been typing for the last 30 minutes or so.

addicha · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 11

Thank you all, i fixed the flicker problem with the latest nvidia drivers... Well i guess i have everything working now. (well almost everything) I LOVE THIS LAPTOP!!!!

thanks again to everyone who made and are still contributing to this thread, forum, and OS in general

davidgp · n00b Joined: 13 Mar 2004 Posts: 16

hey!... just two things... I had the same flicker problem two weeks ago... but I forgot to put the solution here... sorry... I could solve you the problem before...

About ndiswrapper, the version 0.9 has no support for SMP, the developers did some changes and broke the SMP again, the new version, 0.10 has support for SMP processors, I'm using it right now without problem.

David GP

slydini · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 2:46 pm Post subject:

Ok, guys I finally had some time to attack my problem of not being able to get x working. Thanks for posting that latest xorg.conf file cyberjackle. I used most of the settings you have in there and was at least able to startx without error. Now I just have to figure out how to change the resolution to check if I can run at the higher resolutions. The fonts look terrible at the lower resolution right now. I can't see the bottom of the screen. It seems to be stuck near the top of the desktop. Why can't I Crtl-Alt-+ into another resolution?

I had to Crtl - Alt - BS to kill the xserver but it never did recover so I had to reboot from virtual console.
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codergeek42 · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:53 pm Post subject:

Awesome post, xcable. I'm actually thinking of buying one of these, and I just had a question (to all that use this laptop with Gentoo): What kind of battery life do you get from these?
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xcable · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:27 pm Post subject:

2 hours with little or use. 1 to 1.5 hours with regular use (e-mail, web browsing, word processing etc..). 1 hour with heavy use (game or compiling).

heath

codergeek42 · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:41 pm Post subject:

Slynix · n00b Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 67

btw does the fans on zd7000 run noisy alot?
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AnimalMachine · Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:21 am Post subject:

I don't find them to be noisy in light cpu usage. You hear it crank up though on compiles, and there it's quite noticable. It doesn't bother me, but it's pretty subjective.