budman7

I have a dv6000.
I haveonly been able to get Mepis 6.5 and Sabayon to work with it.
Most distros I have tried don't even see that the chip is there, despite it being found in lspci.

__________________
Go RedWings
How to know if you are a geek.
when you respond to "get a life!" with "what's the URL?"
- Birger

New users read The FAQ

cyzyco

The list is:

Fedora 8 test2 - w/ pci=usepirqmask (when I try change the clock with UTC the computer freeze)
Mepis 6.5
Sabayon

jairo.serrano

Ok i have a dv6220la Working at 75% with OpenSuse 10.3,

Options at kernel boot:

• Nvidia - Work after noirqdebug
• Sound - Partial, Mic not work at all
• Wireless - not work
• Webcam - nor work
• Never shutdown complety - the system stay awaiting someting

Other distro are frustrating when the system lockdown complety

netdaemon862

Everything works on my Dv6000z using archlinux x86_64 kernel version 2.6.22.9 . No webcam on this system.

With kernel options set as noapic noirqdebug

nvidia works - used the nvidia-96xx drivers

wireless works - just installed the bcm43xx firmware

suspend 2 ram and disk works - just used the kernel's default stuff set
resume=/swapfile (or whatever your swap partition is)in grub in the kernel line after installing pm-utils

microphone works - confirmed by sending voice clip through amsn

I'v heard of a hack to get the webcam to work. I can't remember where I saw it though. With this setup my system *never* locks. USB works the whole time I'm up, and very rarely does it not shutdown all the way. firmware 3A btw.

jairo.serrano

how you do, for update the bios from linux? traditional patch? or trick with freedos?

netdaemon862

what i did was get someone to build a ubcd4win for me, and i flashed from there =)

Dark_Stang

I have Ubuntu up and running wonderfully on my dv6636nr here. Everything (webcam, graphics card, wifi card with some tweaking) works, with the exception of the media keys in Amarok. I need to figure out how to get those working.

Here is the link to my howto.
Ubuntu on DV6636NR - Ubuntu Forums

__________________
Two levels higher than a newb.
(I can search google)

classicfomoco

I have aHp dv6000 series notebook with quickplay. apparently, the dv6000 series does not play dvds without running windows because it does not have a linux partition in the hard disk. At least, that's what HP told me. is there any way to create on so i don't have to start windows to play dvds?
-scott

Dark_Stang

*puts in Saturday Night Live Best of Chris Farley DVD*

MPlayer is playing this dvd just fine for me. I think the guy from HP that you got to talk to either...
1. Didn't know what you were asking about.
2. Doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
My guess would have to be 2, or both.

__________________
Two levels higher than a newb.
(I can search google)

classicfomoco

Well, when my computer is off, and i press the quickplay button, it just starts up windows. i don't know how to make it play DVDs without starting windows