linux on hp dv6000 amd laptops

[d.w]

I confirm that iommu=off noirqdebug does the trick. SMP works, USB 2.0 works, the NVidia driver works, and I no longer need noapic! Thanks!

-- greg

Hi. For which kernel (or distribution) does the iommu=off noirqdebug kernel parameter work for you?

I have a dv9043ea and I have experienced the same problems as you all. I could solve (almost all) of my problems when I started using Archlinux and their stock kernel. All i had to to is to use the pnpbios=off kernel-parameter. Usb2, nvidia, everything works (see my output of /proc/interrupts) except for one thing.

dw@localhost:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 66824 151 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 168 1 IO-APIC-edge i8042
8: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
9: 23 13 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
10: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi sdhci:slot0
11: 2 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci1394
12: 122 2 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 2820 1 IO-APIC-edge libata
15: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge libata
16: 11894 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi libata
17: 89 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi libata
18: 11 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
19: 14976 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb2
21: 97 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi HDA Intel
22: 14650 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi nvidia
NMI: 0 0
LOC: 66865 66868
ERR: 0
MIS: 0

Everytime I completely shut down this notebook and start it again, there is a tsc sync error happening on first boot attempt. So I have to manually power down the notebook and start it again. Then it works. Unfortunately, the notsc option did not do the trick.

So I'm very interested which kernel I should use to have _everything_ working. Thx.

[Greg Lindahl]

I'm running the 2.6.18 kernel from FC6. See

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/dv6110us.html

-- greg

[d.w]

I'm running the 2.6.18 kernel from FC6. See

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/dv6110us.html

-- greg

Hi Greg. Thanks a lot for your answer. I tried with the FC6 Live-CD but unfortunately I wasn't even able to boot with this kernel parameters. X wouldn't start and I wasn't able to get into a virtual terminal so no logs,....

Bernhard

[netdaemon862]

I suggest compiling a 2.6.20 kernel if you havn't already. Seems it detects the wireless natively, the HP firmware extracted from the bcmwl564.sys does not seem to work. Any ideas?

[whenelvisdied]

Hey all,

This thread has been very useful in getting me thinking about boot params for making my laptop work, and I appreciate everyone's input and advice.

Unfortunately, I still have hangs maybe 60 % of the time. I've tried almost everything, though not systematically from this thread. Here's my specs:

HP dv6000z CTO NB
Ubuntu edgy 32-bit
kernel=2.6.17-10-i386

Even with noapic, I get hangs at some of the same places others have mentioned. I have tried iommu=off, and the same thing happens, also nosmp. The only thing that definitively lets me boot is acpi=off and that shuts down my NVIDIA and wireless capability, as well as god knows what else.

First question--where do I see my bootlog? I've never figured this out--which file is it?

Maybe my next task is to try every option recommended here systematically and see if one works--as it is, I've only tried boot params that seemed to fix problems similar to mine, but maybe that's being too obvious.

[whenelvisdied]

Hey all,

This thread has been very useful in getting me thinking about boot params for making my laptop work, and I appreciate everyone's input and advice.

Unfortunately, I still have hangs maybe 60 % of the time. I've tried almost everything, though not systematically from this thread. Here's my specs:

HP dv6000z CTO NB
Ubuntu edgy 32-bit
kernel=2.6.17-10-i386

Even with noapic, I get hangs at some of the same places others have mentioned. I have tried iommu=off, and the same thing happens, also nosmp. The only thing that definitively lets me boot is acpi=off and that shuts down my NVIDIA and wireless capability, as well as god knows what else.

First question--where do I see my bootlog? I've never figured this out--which file is it?

Maybe my next task is to try every option recommended here systematically and see if one works--as it is, I've only tried boot params that seemed to fix problems similar to mine, but maybe that's being too obvious.

So, here are the two lines that my laptop hangs on:

PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE Controller 000:00:0d.0

and sometimes the line immediately before that, which is:

ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0

Also, when it does load, I get a line in my ubuntu load page (graphical) that says:

Activating Swap..... FAILED

[fdmarco3]

Hi everybody, i have a problem trying to set my wireless card on HP Pavilion dv6000 with amd64 x2 in kubuntu+ kernel 2.6.20. I first tried using BCM43XX module + fwcutter, but it seems not to work, then tried ndiswrapper, but.. nothing.So i gave a dsmeg in konsole and i think the problem is there since it is saying:

bcm43xx: Cannot register irq0.

Someone knows what does it means and what to do to solve that situation?

thanks in advance.

[fdmarco3]

Forget my first post, i have followed the suggestons of the first post and it's all ok now. i had a problem setting acpi=off at boot options, so removed that and the wifi works with ndiswrapper. thanks anyway

[whenelvisdied]

Well, I've loaded it a half dozen times with the following boot parameters written into menu.lst:

noapic nolapic pci=routeirq

The swap issue was an unrelated problem that is also now solved.

Here are my specs:

HP Pavillion dv6000z
Amd turion 64 X2
Nvidia GeForce Go 7200
Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10 386
Ndiswrapper for wireless (which works)
"Nvidia" driver from the nvidia website, which also works.

[fdmarco3]

Someone tested the dv6000 webcam?Does it work?