HP Pavillion DV5000 Series

From ArchWiki

Jump to: navigation, search


Contents

[edit] Introduction

Covers the basic installation of arch linux including xorg and a basic GUI,on HP Pavillion DV5000 Series, specifically DV5250CA.

[edit] What works out of the box

Synaptic Touchpad

Remote control

Ethernet card

[edit] What works with configuration

Media keys

ipw3945

[edit] What doesn't work

Texas Instruments 5-in-1 card reader

[edit] Install

  • Boot into the arch linux install cd
  • Partition harddisk
    • Remember to leave 2gb unpartitioned for HP Quickplay
  • Install arch

[edit] Xorg

Installing Xorg 

pacman -S xorg
pacman -S xterm

To setup xorg easily use hwd. 

pacman -S hwd
hwd -xa

To setup the intel graphics card 

pacman -S xf86-video-i810
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device Number 1"
	Driver		"i810"					# xf86-video-i810 Package
	BusID		"PCI:0:2:0"				# Reported by lspci
	Screen		0
EndSection

[edit] KDE

pacman -S kde

This will take a while, after its done add kdm to the daemons array 

nano /etc/rc.conf
DAEMONS=(kdm)

reboot and you should have kde running

[edit] Sound

pacman -S alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-oss
modprobe snd-hda-intel
modprobe snd-pcm-oss

add snd-hda-intel and snd-pcm-oss to the modules array 

nano /etc/rc.conf
MODULES=(snd-pcm-oss snd-hda-intel)

Now add your user to the audio group 

gpasswd -a username audio

To save alsa preferences when you log out 

alsactl store

Add alsa to the daemon array 

nano /etc/rc.conf
DAEMONS=(alsa kdm)


reboot and try playing a file, remember to unmute alsamixer

[edit] Wireless

This laptop uses ipw3945 

pacman -S ipw3945
pacman -S wifi-radar

Now add ipw3945 to the modules array and ipw3945d in the daemons array, in /etc/rc.conf 

nano /etc/rc.conf
MODULES=(snd-hda-intel snd-pcm-oss ipw3945)
DAEMONS=(ipw3945d alsa kdm)

!Remember to add ipw3945d before the network daemon to ensure it loads correctly


reboot and you should see ipw3945 loading at boot text


Wifi-radar makes it easy to switch between networks while roaming, only draw back is that it must be run using sudo 

nano /etc/sudoers
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
username    ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/wifi-radar

to test 

wifi-radar

and thats all for the wireless and this guide :)

--Azimuth 19:34, 16 March 2007 (EST)

Retrieved from "http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HP_Pavillion_DV5000_Series"
Personal tools