HP Laptops

[J-Red]

Hey, I just bought a HP Compaq 6710b without checking if it was fully compatable with Ubuntu... When trying to install feisty, I realized it wasn't. I kept getting xorg errors because the graphics card is incompatible and couldn't get it to work at all. I'm looking into returning the laptop and getting a new one, but I want to make sure it will work with Ubuntu first. i was looking into the HP Compaq 6715b (http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ca/en...-80292545.html) which is pretty much an identical laptop, except it uses an AMD Chipset and a different graphics card. Can anyone tell me if that laptop is compatible with Ubuntu? Or can anyone help me to install feisty on my HP Compaq 6710b? I haven't had very much luck with google, so I decided to post here. (haven't had much luck in IRC either...)

[Perfex]

Hmm can you post all of your problems .. how far its getting on the install, etc.
Have you tryed using the alternate cd?

I have a compaq v5000 quite a bit diffrent but linux ussualy is fine with most of HP's/Compaq

Edit: Found this post might interest you http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ht=Intel+965GM

[J-Red]

Thanks for that link, I'm thinking of just returnign the laptop because of all the issues that I'm having it, plus in that llink the guy says the monitor is blurry, and that would get really annoying really fast. Dose anyone know if that link I posted (the HP Compaq 6715b) does will with Ubuntu? I'm mainly worried about the video card.

[J-Red]

I'm confused as to what I should be looking at video-wise on the HP Compaq 6715b It says that the chipset used inside it is AMD M690T, but it says that the video card is an ATI Radeon X1250. Are either/both of those compatible with feisty?

[abrarey]

Hi I have the same problem, let me tell you J-Red that I have the 6715b notebook and the video card is not working.
I install Ubuntu with the Alternate CD, but the video is not working I've spend all the weekend triyng to fixit but nothing yet.
If someone knows how to get ATI X1250 works on feisty will be great, please some help.
I´ve tried with ubuntu live CD, SimplyMepis 6.5 that comes with restricted drivers available and with mint 3.0
Right now I´m downloading uberyl to tried.
Thanks in advance.
Sorry my english is no so good.

[HarshReality]

As of late ATIs graphics seem to be lacking in linux in general the net is littered with posts on the subject. I myself have never tried or subscribed to an ATI chipset and alwyas went for NVidia. But as far as HP laptops go the most common issue is with an older model and some newer ones making use of an ENE card reader which has less than no linux support at all.

Work of caution, if you try linux on ANY HP laptop they will be of no assistance at all (I used to work in a corporate office with the engineers) and when you reference linux and an HP/Compaq laptop in the same sentence they get red faced and angry.

[smylie]

Originally Posted by J-Red Hey, I just bought a HP Compaq 6710b without checking if it was fully compatable with Ubuntu... When trying to install feisty, I realized it wasn't. I kept getting xorg errors because the graphics card is incompatible and couldn't get it to work at all.Or can anyone help me to install feisty on my HP Compaq 6710b? I haven't had very much luck with google, so I decided to post here. (haven't had much luck in IRC either...)

Hi

I've got the HP6710b and can confirm it all works fine under ubuntu. There are a couple of issues though:
- you can't use the default install live cd. (can't load X). I had to use the alternate install cd to install. However, I've been told that the normal live cd will work if you set the graphics to run in 640x480 vesa mode (before it boots up).
- one installed you can't run X with the default kernel as the standard fiesty kernel isn't recent enough. You need at least 2.6.20. This at least is easily fixed by doing an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade + rebooting.
- the current intel video driver in the feisty repos doesn't *quite* work - it's half a pixel off, leaving the screen blurry. This is also relatively easily fixed. See link http://blog.smylie.co.nz/?p=4

However, once you've fixed those issues, the laptop actually runs really well. Suspend works out of the box, and compiz fusion runs happily.

Let me know how you get on.

Regards
Dave Smylie

[zzak]

I've got a Compaq Presario V6000. (Just another HP machine)
But it has the nvidia chip set.
Feisty Fawn installed OK, but, X didn't work.
Had to go to http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html
and downloaded his "Envy" program. Also got his FAQ.
Ran it and it worked like a charm.

Envy also does ATI chips

[Old *ix Geek]

I recently bought an HP dv6000 laptop, and Feisty runs like a charm on it.

[abrarey]

I must admit that it takes me a lot of time, but I made it.
The ATI x1250 can works on Feisty.
When you boot the CD and the xserver fails and display the message you select no.
then in the console you type in this order:
* sudo -s
* killall gdm
* apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
* depmod -a
* aticonfig --initial
* gdm start

After that the xserver loads and you can install ubuntu.

When you install Ubuntu doesn´t load the restricted drivers so the same problems show up, but you can do the same and it works.

My laptop HP 6715b now works great, I´m focusing right now how to enable 3d effects when I get some news I will postit here.