HP Pavilion tx2000 Hardware solutions !!!

[Goldford]

I suppose it would be possible, but it would be quite an undertaking, and it would change as updates come out. It would be difficult to maintain and hardware differences would pose a problem....
I have thought about it myself, but I do not have enough time, and wouldn't have time to troubleshoot all the problems that would arise from it.
It really doesn't take a whole lot of time to get most of it working.
Mainly plug into an ethernet jack and update everything.
Then use hardware drivers to get graphics and wireless.
Then put the line

options snd-hda-intel model=hp

into /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

to get sound working.
to get the tablet working follow my tutorial:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...47#post5469447

and that gets most everything working....
When Intrepid comes out, I may undertake such a task if I have time, but I doubt I will...

Kory

Thanks Kory,

I will give it a try sometime soon.

Greig

[getifax]

Thanks, following your guide I was able to get 99% of my precious tx2000 up and running.

The last 1% that still bugs me is:

When I add the "noapic nolapic irqfixup" parameters to the kernel, suspend and resume works like a charm, but now the processor scaling is acting up. The Ondemand governor just jumps straight to the highest frequency and stays there and the Conservative governor just climbs down to 800MHz no matter what the load.

Any one else noticed this behavior?

Well i guess nobody else is helping us out here bud. i got the same problem, and yeah it's pretty much the last thing i'm still losing swimming time over. i tried removing some of the parameters... the one that seemed to fix the suspend issue was irqfixup, i used just that one and i could suspend no problem. unfortunately the processor was also churning when I used just that one.
i've uninstalled powernowd and installed cpufreqd and tweaked the parameters... the same thing is happening, with the progression that when the cpu overheats every couple seconds (default was 55 celsius, i upped it to 64) it drops it down to 800 for a little while. i might just need to fix the settings, or i might just need to do something way more elegant to make my laptop stop behaving like a candyraver. the other thing you can do is set the cpu frequency manually with cpufreq-set. which feels kind of like knocking out & then building a wall a few times a day instead of just using the door.
does anybody else here know what to do about this? We're tryin to save the planet here.
i limited it to 1.80 rather than its default 2.2 GHz using $ cpufreq-set -u 1800000. so now it just uses that speed as much as possible, even though cpufreq-info says

$ cpufreq-info
cpufrequtils 002: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2006
Report errors and bugs to linux@brodo.de, please.
analyzing CPU 0:
  driver: powernow-k8
  CPUs which need to switch frequency at the same time: 0 1
  hardware limits: 800 MHz - 2.20 GHz
  available frequency steps: 2.20 GHz, 2.00 GHz, 1.80 GHz, 1.60 GHz, 800 MHz
  available cpufreq governors: conservative, powersave, userspace, ondemand, performance
  current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 1.80 GHz.
                  The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  current CPU frequency is 1.80 GHz.
analyzing CPU 1:
  driver: powernow-k8
  CPUs which need to switch frequency at the same time: 0 1
  hardware limits: 800 MHz - 2.20 GHz
  available frequency steps: 2.20 GHz, 2.00 GHz, 1.80 GHz, 1.60 GHz, 800 MHz
  available cpufreq governors: conservative, powersave, userspace, ondemand, performance
  current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 1.80 GHz.
                  The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  current CPU frequency is 1.80 GHz.

Also to the guy having trouble installing ndiswrapper... while it is certainly invigorating to wade steeltoe-first into the exciting world of installing pgp keys, you may alternately be interested to learn that i'm using the package "ndiswrapper-utils-1.9" without having had to do that. you might just need to specify that name. or maybe it's just the time factor of the now version of everything being better than the then version. in any case $ apt-cache search ndis will tell you what related packages are available.

in general here's a summary of my success at the intersection of hp pavilion tx2110ca and ubuntu "hardy heron" 8.10 x86_64:
details: 2.2GHz Turion 64 processor, 3GB RAM.
broadcom bcm4328 a/b/n/g wireless: works with ndiswrapper and this driver.
wacom touchscreen: haven't touched it.
webcam: haven't looked at it.
fingerprint scanner: what?
nvidia MCP51 sound: sudo echo "options snd-hda-intel model=hp" >>/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
geForce 6150 Go: using the proprietary driver 'cause the mouse cursor disappeared one time after i hibernated and then user switched. i think there's another fix but what ev.
suspend/hibernate: add "noapic nolapic irqfixup" to the boot options like the man says.
in general: mostly working except the cpu frequency governor is on crystal meth ever since i changed the boot options. Anyone got a fix?

-getifax

[Obituaryfreak]

Hi I tried not to post a new thread but I couldn't find my answer in the SOMEHOW RELATED posts ,so I`m posting this..
I have an HP 2070ee Tablet with the Interpid installed on it which has been running smoothly for 4 month using its internal wireless card. Its not even listed under the connection list in Network Settings and yet not connected in the lspci with the following result:
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150 Go] (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev f1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
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Here is my uname -a output : 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:39 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
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and iwconfig output:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

pan0 no wireless extensions.
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The funny thing is it doesn't even exit when I left click on the two monitors.
I checked the HP web site for the Broadcom drivers and the featured ones were:Broadcom 802.11 a/b/g WLAN Broadcom 802.11 b/g WLAN Broadcom 4321AG 802.11a/b/g/draft-n Wi-Fi Adapter Broadcom 4322AG 802.11a/b/g/draft-n Wi-Fi Adapter
which are supported on my laptop.
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Besides I must say that I tried the ndisgtk to install the drivers (bcmwl6.inf),but was of no success it still says Hardware present:No).
Theres even no log in the dmesg output which mentions the ord WIRELESS.

2 more things which may help
he output of my lshw is :
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 1
logical name: pan0
serial: 72:21:be:e6:5b:b7
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A multicast=yes
1st thing is it doesn't show any thing about the wireless card and only shows the Ethernet card
and the 2nd thing is that the ethenet card as you can see is featured in Disabled status which is really freaking me out cuz I`m using my Ethernet connection right now sending you this thread!
please leave me a note because I`m completely nuts at the moment.

[Obituaryfreak]

I have been using Ubuntu for 2 years and I have installed it in many laptops and desktops including: HP, IBM, Dell, Acer, Toshiba & many assembled PC's

I have never find problems with drivers as much as what I had with the HP Pavilion tx2000

OS: Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) AMD64


I wanted to tell people how I managed to get through all of them (YES ALL)

1.VGA
Problem: Not Working Perfectly (Driver Problem)
Solution:Go to synaptic and install the "nvidia-glx-new" package. It will work fine after you restart the laptop.

2-Audio:
Problem: Not Working (LED indicate that it is mute)
Solution: in Terminal write the code

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base 

Write at the end of the file in new line:

options snd-hda-intel model=hp 

Save the file and the sound will work after reboot

3.Lightscribe:
Problem: Not Working (Need Driver and Application)
Solution: Download the following packages and install them:
Driver: lightscribe-1.12.37.1-linux-2.6-intel.deb
Software: lightscribeApplications-1.10.19.1-linux-2.6-intel.deb
Additional Links:
Template Label Gallery
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4.Fingerprint:
Problem: Not Working (Detected but does not work when you log in)
Solution: You need three packages & since one or two of them are not available in Synaptic you can get them here: http://legacy.madman2k.net/comments/105
The packages are: libfprint, pam_fprint and fprint_demo.
Then Write in the Terminal:

tar -xjf libfprint-0.0.4.tar.bz2
cd libfprint-0.0.4
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install 

and repeat it again for pam_fprint and fprint_demo.

5-Wireless:
Problem: Detected but not working at all
Solution:
A.install ndiswrapper packages:

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common 

B.Download this driver
C.Open the Terminal and write:

sudo cabextract SP34152.exe
sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -m
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
sudo gedit /etc/modules 

Write at end of that file: "ndiswrapper" and It should be working without reboot


6.WACON "Touch Screen"
This is very new & I worked very hard to find it BUT after finding it and fighting to install it I found that neko18 wrote a new Thread all about it and it was the first topic in front if me when I came to post mine.
Link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=765915
"Thanks & I wish I have found your topic an hour ago."

7.Monitor Rotation:
Problem: Not working
Solution:I need more time to check it fully
I Found this helpful link: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2

Thank you

dude your wireless solution doesnt work for me
its been 3 days with no wireless and only ethernet cable(stuck in ma room)
and its too frustrating...
My laptop is hp tx 2070 ee tablet pc...
and I`m nuts..

[brainsqueezer]

Nobody had overheat problems?

If so please tell. I have created a discussion group on this topic at http://groups.google.com/group/tx2000-overheat.

[correaa]

Nobody had overheat problems?

If so please tell. I have created a discussion group on this topic at http://groups.google.com/group/tx2000-overheat.

Yes, I had when I switched to Jaunty. But later I realized that it was a combination of Jaunty power management AND a dusty fan.
Initially I tried to open the laptop case to clean the fan but I couldn't. Later I tried blowing very hard through it and everything solved. It used to reach 92 Celsius and Ubuntu shuting down. Now after cleaning it is (at most) ~80 Celsius.

[Favux]

Hi brainsqueezer and correaa,

Some TX2500 users said installing guidance-power-manager through Synaptics helped.

And marranzano went to the extreme of changing his dsdt on post #554 here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=845911&page=56 This may apply to our TX2000's.

[Favux]

Hi everyone,

We figured out how to get auto-magic rotation (swivel hinge) for the TX2000 (works for TX2500 and TX2z too). See HOW TO on post #225 here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=996830&page=23 And a little more info. on the first page HOW TO.

[brainsqueezer]

Anybody had problems with latest nvidia drivers (185.18.31)?

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=137772

[themattbeballin]

I'm kinda resurrecting an older thread here.. But my sister has a HP Pavilion TX2000 machine...

She ended up taking her first Linux class as part of her PC Operating Systems class and when she gets home says, "You're putting Linux on my PC."

Well. I gotten to the part about the fingerprint reader... The link that is provided does not work.. is anyone able to provide an alternative so I can get her computer back to her sometime in the near future.. She used this fingerprint reader CONSTANTLY in Vista and I'd hate to deprive her of it.

-Matt

EDIT: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 03:00:45 CDT

I also could not seem to get through with the Wacom touchscreen either... This laptop is a true pain in the ***. lol.