[wellylug] HP Pavilion ZV6100 and Ubuntu

Martin Wagner da.cappo at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 9 09:55:21 NZDT 2009


Ray Smith schrieb:
> Hi,
> I recently inherited my wife's old HP ZV6100. I promptly liberated it
> from Windows and installed Intrepid. The install was painless and
> everything worked except for the broadcom wireless. I connected to the
> net via the LAN adapter and the wi-fi issue resolved after the initial
> update.  Even the ATI diver worked out of the box. I was impressed.
>
> I am, however, having some interesting issues that pop up
> intermittently. First and most annoying is that the touch pad stops
> registering taps. The cursor will respond but the taps and buttons
> will not select anything.
> Secondly, this happens every time, if you use the volume buttons near
> the touch pad they don't release. The volume applet just keeps flashing.
> Third... It's really dodgey when it tries to come out of suspend mode.
>
> The most impressive bit with this little project is the fact that I'm
> running on just 512mb of system RAM and it runs smoothly. I'm running
> Gnome Do and Docky with no problems.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions for the above annoyances please let me know.
> Thanks,
>
> -- 
> Ray Smith
> Masterton
> New Zealand
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>   
hi ray,
maybe http://www.linux-laptop.net/ this site can help you
cu
martin



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