HP Pavilion dv5z

Hardware Specifications

• AMD Turion(TM) X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processor ZM-80 (2.1 GHz)
• 15.4" diagonal WSXGA+ High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1680 x 1050)
• 3GB DDR2 System Memory
• 256MB ATI Radeon(TM) HD 3450 Graphics
• 250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
• Atheros 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN with Bluetooth
• SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support
• Webcam Only (no Fingerprint Reader)
• JMicron SD,MS/Pro,MMC,XD Card Reader

Output of "dmidecode"

BIOS Information
        Vendor: Hewlett-Packard
        Version: F.11
        Release Date: 08/06/2008

System Information
        Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
        Product Name: HP Pavilion dv5 Notebook PC
        Version: Rev 1

Output of "lspci -k"

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (ext gfx port 0)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 5)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
        Kernel driver in use: ahci
        Kernel modules: ahci
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
        Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ohci-hcd
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
        Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ohci-hcd
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
        Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ohci-hcd
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
        Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ohci-hcd
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
        Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
        Kernel modules: i2c-piix4
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
        Kernel driver in use: pata_atiixp
        Kernel modules: atiixp, ide-pci-generic, pata_acpi, ata_generic, pata_atiixp
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h HyperTransport Configuration (rev 40)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Link Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Series]
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
08:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1381
        Kernel driver in use: ath9k
        Kernel modules: ath9k
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
        Kernel driver in use: r8169
        Kernel modules: r8169
0a:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
        Kernel driver in use: ohci1394
        Kernel modules: ohci1394
0a:00.1 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. SD/MMC Host Controller
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
        Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
        Kernel modules: sdhci-pci
0a:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Standard SD Host Controller
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
        Kernel modules: sdhci-pci
0a:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. MS Host Controller
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600
        Kernel driver in use: jmb38x_ms
        Kernel modules: jmb38x_ms
0a:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. xD Host Controller
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3600

Configuration

AMD Turion X2 Ultra Processor

See CPU frequency scaling.

Radeon HD3450 (radeonhd)

I have not noticed any issues using the "xf86-video-radeonhd" driver. I have not tried the HDMI out with Arch, but under Ubuntu it would only work with the proprietary ATI driver.

Radeon HD3450 (fglrx)

I have not tested the fglrx driver under Arch. If you have experience with this driver, please feel free to update this section with your config.

Intel HD Audio

ALSA sound was discovered through hwdetect during the install. All necessary modules were loaded by the installer.

Realtek LAN

The wired connection worked after loading the "r8169" module.

Atheros 802.11n Wireless

Wireless works after loading the "ath9k" module.

Fingerprint Reader

My model did not come with a fingerprint reader. If you have experience with this device, please feel free to update this section with your config.

Troubleshooting

Framebuffer

None of the values given in the default "/boot/grub/menu.lst" for higher resolution framebuffers worked with the dv5z. In order to find the available modes I had to install hwinfo.

Mode 0x323: 1024x768 (+4096), 24 bits
Mode 0x324: 1280x1024 (+5120), 24 bits
Mode 0x346: 1400x1050 (+5632), 24 bits
Mode 0x356: 1152x864 (+4608), 24 bits
Mode 0x366: 1280x960 (+5120), 24 bits

ALSA

The Arch install process found and added my sound modules automatically via hwdetect. Despite this, I could not get any sound to play. Many people across multiple distributions seem to think this is an error with the 2.6.28 kernel, so this may be obsolete with future releases. Should you come across this issue, add the following line into "/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf"

options snd-hda-intel model=hp-m4 enable_msi=1