HOW TO: Everything HP Pavilion zv5000

Travers · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 142

Lol, I know this isn't neat and all, but write a shell script to bring up your wlan0, give it execute permissions, and add the path and name to /etc/conf.d/local.start. When init gets around to launching local, the script will be executed and your wifi brought up.

mccubbin · n00b Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 32

RicardoJones · n00b Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1

I am a newbie to linux and I have tried for 5 days in vain to load gentoo on my zv5000. I am a very patient person, but I've about had it. I got gentoo running on a desktop without much hassle, but the laptop is about to kill me. I seem to have a different problem every time I reload it and I think it stems from me not understanding hardware and architecture very much...i.e. I don't know what exactly to compile into my kernel and what modules to load and lots of other big words I don't quite get. I have tried most of the things specific to certain drivers and/or my specific laptop here, but to no avail. I found this topic useful, but it didn't get me up and running. I think what I need are a few more details...like exactly what options to compile into the kernel (which if I understand it correctly, someone with this same laptop could post or send their .config file and I could load that). Any help would be appreciated. I am hoping not to switch the laptop to a different flavor.

Travers · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 142

Confirmed that adding options

shade266 · Guru Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Internal

This thread deserves a sticky. Great job with the details. Thanks to this thread my Emachines Broadcom card works perfectly with every wireless network I utilize. Good job and thanks again.

Also, kudos to the developers on the AMD64 project(s) you guys/gals are fantastic for ushering in the new developments for the 64-bit platform. Everyone who posts a query here needs to thank the developers and the authors of threads such as this one.
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piercey · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 182

I dont know if everyone else here is using this laptop in native 64bit mode (like myself), but I have everything working in it (even the mute button light turns on

) except for swsuspend so far. I must say that when I first bought my laptop almost nothing worked, and 64bit was even worse, but as time went by support has become great. So a big thanks to the amd64 team

There is a wiki for this laptops brother, the Compaq R3000 (almost EXACT SAME laptop), which you may find helpful:
http://prinsig.se/weekee/index.php/Main_Page

fasorud · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 24

die_vms_die · Apprentice Joined: 16 Nov 2002 Posts: 189 Location: MS

Setting NVreg_Mobile=0 in /etc/modules.d/nvidia, gets the native 1280x800 resolution, but then DPMS doesn't work.

If I load nvidia module without argument or set NVreg_Mobile= 1,2,3,4, or 5 the screen resolution if borked, but

Travers · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 142

What is so hot about DPMS?

die_vms_die · Apprentice Joined: 16 Nov 2002 Posts: 189 Location: MS

The 1.0-7664 nvidia drivers release June 1, 2005 currently ~amd64 seem to have proper info on this machine's screen.

The NVreg_Mobile=0 setting is NO longer needed.
Finally got 1280x800 and DPMS

I'm a physicist ,but think seti is nuts.
I leave the machine running FAH, when emerge ain't cranking away.

DPMS, Display Power Management Signaling, can turn the LCD & backlight off.
Benefits being lower electric bill, and backlight not burning out.

Holding down the ugly lid switch thing turns off backlight,lcd is still active, whereas the DPMS "off state" seems to turn off the display in addition to the backlight.

DPMS works for CRTs too. Standy and suspend states are actually useful there too, monitor comes back on quick.

Travers · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 142

Sweet, I'll add DPMS stuff into my ACPI scripts!

mikkoloo · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 12:14 am Post subject:

mikkoloo · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 12:18 am Post subject:

and another thing about this laptop. My laptop (zv5470EA) got the PC87591 chipset acording to sensors-detect.

cylamanae · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 126

Help Im running the same laptop... The nvidia driver that im loading is 1.0.7174. I have also tried to run the driver 1.0.6629 without it working correctly. I have done everthing in this forum to get the video to work. My video is not showing the full screen the right side is missing about half an inch. The bottom is not working correctly also. It is all blurry. If any one has any ideas Please help. It was working correctly till i decided to reinstall....

Thanks in advance.

Calvin

Travers · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 142

Try removing all framebuffer support from your kernel. (Device drivers--->graphics)

cylamanae · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 126

I have no frambuffer support enabled within my kernel. I get the nvidia logo and all but its just not using the whole screen.

Thanks for the help so far.

mikkoloo · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:57 pm Post subject:

I had the same problem, I think this will solve it:

cylamanae · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 126

Hmm that has not helped Im going to try recompiling my kernel later tonight. If any one has any more ideas any help would be apreaciated.

Thanks

Calvin

mikkoloo · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:34 pm Post subject:

I really dont think that has anything to do with the kernel. I had the exact same thing and the problem is prolly that you get a 4:3 rez unscaled. I'd use the tool for finding out the resolutions and try with that.

cylamanae · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 126

Thanks for all ur help I figured it out. The problem was in the xorg.conf file and all but it was just something really small that I over looked. I had the display set at "1024x768" not 1280x800.

Thanks

Calvin

Travers · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 142

Curious, here's my xorg.conf:

mikkoloo · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:20 pm Post subject:

Some other things ive come across using this laptop.

PCMCIA is kinda broken for me on AMD64 native. EXCEPT if i use kernel 2.6.11 patched to 2.6.12-rc5 and further patched with mm2 patches for this kernel. This is the only kenrel i found working with this laptop and pcmcia together with my WiFi card (orinoco_cs).

When using the current (>6629) nvidia driver and RenderAccel in xorg I discovered a lot of lockups, esp together with the composite extension. If you have the same problem, downgrading the driver might help.

I still have problems with this old driver and fullscreen gaming (quake3). I think I need modes for the lower resolutions for that. If someone knows how to get them, please post a reply.

Cheers.
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HP pavilion zv5470EA: AMD 64 3400+, 512 Mb RAM, 80 Gb HDD, nvidia GeForce4 440 Go 64M, Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS (orinoco gold) WiFi. Creative Webcam Pro (ov511)

cylamanae · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 126

Mayby someone can help me. I am trying to get wireless to work I am getting the following error. I have followed the steps to the mark.

/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start
* Starting wlan0
* Configuring wireless network for wlan0
* no access points found
* Couldn't find any access points on wlan0
* Failed to configure wireless for wlan0

I am like 3 feet away from the wireless router. Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks

freelight · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 3:24 am Post subject:

Is there a way of getting the scrolling part or the touchpad to work as it should? I tried emerging synaptics and using that driver a while back, but it didn't work at all.

mikkoloo · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 10:04 am Post subject: