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    Issues with HP Pavilion DM1-3200SA

    Hey all,

    I've tried the IRC and got no response, so figured I'd try the forum.

    Getting the following issues with the laptop on Ubuntu 11.10 and hoping I can get some fast and helpful responses:

    1. Suspend/Hibernate Don't Work
    I travel a lot, so have a need for a suspend or preferably hibernate function. Right now, when I do suspend or hibernate from the Unity interface, the programs close as expected, but I just end up with a black screen with a blinking cursor (screen backlight still on). This persists for several minutes until I eventually hard-boot the machine.

    This is my most urgent and pressing issue, and it's really making this OS all but un-usable for me at the moment.

    2. Fn Key turns Wi-Fi Off, but not Back On
    When I press the F12 key to turn the wi-fi off, that works fine, but when I press it again, the networks menu in the system tray constantly shows my wi-fi card as 'device not ready'. The only way I've found to make it work again is to reboot the machine, even a logout/login doesn't seem to solve it.

    3. Frequent Crashes from Ubuntu Software Centre
    The software centre often crashes with no reason, I can work around this by using apt-get in a terminal window, but am wondering if these crashes are known about and if there is a fix for them.

    If anyone can help with the above, it'll be much appreciated.

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    Re: Issues with HP Pavilion DM1-3200SA

    I have this exact same laptop, running 11.10 more or less successfully.

    #1 Suspend
    I had this problem until I uninstalled the proprietary ATI driver and replaced it with the OSS version. This works well enough with Unity, and suspend/resume works fine.

    #2 Wifi
    I had no wifi at all until I installed http://media.cdn.ubuntu-de.org/forum....5.0.3_DPO.zip - now it works fine, including the hardware kill switch on/off. The one downside is that I have to rebuild the driver on every kernel update - no biggy.

    #3 works for me.

    My one remaining problem is the trackpad. It only just works, but jumps about a lot, and scrolling/gestures do not work at all, even with the synaptics driver installed.

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    Re: Issues with HP Pavilion DM1-3200SA

    Quote Originally Posted by lsmithso View Post
    I have this exact same laptop, running 11.10 more or less successfully.

    #1 Suspend
    I had this problem until I uninstalled the proprietary ATI driver and replaced it with the OSS version. This works well enough with Unity, and suspend/resume works fine.

    #2 Wifi
    I had no wifi at all until I installed http://media.cdn.ubuntu-de.org/forum....5.0.3_DPO.zip - now it works fine, including the hardware kill switch on/off. The one downside is that I have to rebuild the driver on every kernel update - no biggy.

    #3 works for me.

    My one remaining problem is the trackpad. It only just works, but jumps about a lot, and scrolling/gestures do not work at all, even with the synaptics driver installed.
    #2 is no longer an issue as I've found a workaround - disabling then enabling wireless via the networking menu makes it pick the device back up again.

    #1 - I can't really ditch the proprietary blobs as I play a lot of games which require 3D accel (Heroes of Newerth amongst others). I might try installing fglrx-unstable at some point and see if this is fixed in newer versions, as it sounds like it's related to the video drivers.

    As for the trackpad, I have two finger scrolling and left/right mouse click. Can't remember what I did to change it. The only thing I dislike about my trackpad is that I don't have spiral scrolling, and can't click a button with one finger and drag with the other.

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    Re: Issues with HP Pavilion DM1-3200SA

    Quote Originally Posted by Corporation View Post

    As for the trackpad, I have two finger scrolling and left/right mouse click. Can't remember what I did to change it. The only thing I dislike about my trackpad is that I don't have spiral scrolling, and can't click a button with one finger and drag with the other.
    That's odd. I can left-click and drag fine. If what you did to get gestures working comes back to you, please do tell.

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    Re: Issues with HP Pavilion DM1-3200SA

    Quote Originally Posted by lsmithso View Post
    That's odd. I can left-click and drag fine. If what you did to get gestures working comes back to you, please do tell.
    When I try to left click and drag with two fingers, it assumes I want to two finger scroll. That's the only gesture I have working btw.

    Confirming that new fglrx didn't solve the hibernation issue.

    Edit: I remember now what I did to get two-finger scrolling & right-click working. First of all, if you did anything to make the mouse work differently (like the type=expo or whatever it is), undo it.

    Then, follow the instructions here to build xerver-xorg-input-synaptics with the suse patches. This will fix synaptics driver for you.

    I also managed to fix the suspend/hibernate issue, you create a file in /etc/pm/config.d (doesn't matter what it's called) and put the following in it:

    SUSPEND_MODULES="hp_accel lis3lv02d"

    After this, suspend and hibernate both seem to work fine with fglrx proprietary blob drivers installed.
    Last edited by Corporation; November 28th, 2011 at 02:02 AM.

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    Re: Issues with HP Pavilion DM1-3200SA

    Hi Corporation,

    I have the same laptop and Ubuntu version. Unsurprisingly I have the same Linux issues you had.

    The hibernate problem is solved now. Thanks for that!

    About the mouse, I managed to get some improvement based on other threads I read from 10.04, but I still cannot select, which is annoying. Building the package, is not working.

    I get the following error from dpkg-buildpackage:

    1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- rejects in file conf/50-synaptics.conf

    Any idea what this means?

    Thanks

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    Re: Issues with HP Pavilion DM1-3200SA

    I don't know if you managed to solve the touchpad issues in Ubuntu 11.10 but i ran into the same trouble here today wen i bought a Pavilion dm1. I found a solution that it's easier than build a new server from scratch (actually i was trying that and i got stucked several times). I found the solution here in the forum. Here's a patch http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.p...7&d=1318883346 for your server and here's the steps to fix it:

    This is what I did and I hope it works for you too (obviously I can't guarantee anything):

    1. Download the attached file to your computers desktop
    2. sudo apt-get install dkms build-essential
    3. cd ~/Desktop
    4. tar jxvf psmouse-2.6.38-8-generic.tar.bz2
    5. sudo mv psmouse-2.6.38-8-generic /usr/src
    6. cd /usr/src
    7. sudo chmod -R a+rx psmouse-2.6.38-8-generic
    8. sudo dkms add -m psmouse -v 2.6.38-8-generic
    9. sudo dkms build -m psmouse -v 2.6.38-8-generic
    10. sudo dkms install -m psmouse -v 2.6.38-8-generic
    11. sudo shutdown -r now
    12. dkms status

    The output of the last command should look similar to this (with no errors):
    "psmouse, 2.6.38-8-generic, 2.6.38-8-generic, i686: installed"
    you must change the version of the file for the new one that is 3.0.0-12-generic. Thanks to the user Tomkear2006 to come out with this solution. The original thread and posts can be found here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...388164&page=23 post #265 contains the patch and #224 the instructions for a previous version.

    Hope with this you can solve the touchpad issues, it worked for me in Ubuntu 11.10 64bits.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Psycopatologic View Post
    I don't know if you managed to solve the touchpad issues in Ubuntu 11.10 but i ran into the same trouble here today wen i bought a Pavilion dm1. I found a solution that it's easier than build a new server from scratch (actually i was trying that and i got stucked several times). I found the solution here in the forum. Here's a patch http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.p...7&d=1318883346 for your server and here's the steps to fix it:


    you must change the version of the file for the new one that is 3.0.0-12-generic. Thanks to the user Tomkear2006 to come out with this solution. The original thread and posts can be found here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...388164&page=23 post #265 contains the patch and #224 the instructions for a previous version.

    Hope with this you can solve the touchpad issues, it worked for me in Ubuntu 11.10 64bits.

    Hi
    Thank you very much. It worked for me

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    Re: Issues with HP Pavilion DM1-3200SA

    I found out a solution for the right click in the touchpad

    right click does not work. But if you right click with two fingers!

    If you acivate scrolling with two fingers in the system settings that works fine too.

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    Re: Issues with HP Pavilion DM1-3200SA

    +1 @ Magalaan

    However in lubuntu I cannot find any settings for mouse side scrolling. The activation option you say appears in gnome settings in ubuntu ?

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