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HP Pavilion zv5270us
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2 5714 11-30-2004
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Description: Processor:
AMD® Athlon™ XP-M processor 3400+ (2.2GHz) with PowerNow!™ technology

Operating system:
Windows XP Home (pre-installed)

Memory:
512MB DDR SDRAM (2 x 256MB) at 333MHz

Graphics card:
NVIDIA® GeForce™ 4 440 Go (d) with 64MB DDR (dedicated)

Hard drive:
80GB Enhanced IDE (4200 rpm) [gigabyte is defined as 1,000,000,000 bytes, accessible capacity may vary]

Primary CD/DVD drive:
DVD+R/RW and CD-RW combo drive

Display:
15.4" WXGA High-Definition (j) (Widescreen (1280 x 800) Display

Wireless connectivity:
54g™ 802.11b/g g (K) (WLAN with 125HSM/SpeedBooster support (l)

Digital media:
5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for Secure Digital cards, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro or SmartMedia cards

External ports:
3 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0, 1 FireWire (IEEE) 1394, 1 notebook expansion port

Communications:
Integrated 10/100Base-T Ethernet LAN (l) ((RJ-45 connector)

Dimensions:
11.18" (L) (w/out hinge) to 11.59" (L) (w/hinge) x 14.25" (W) x 1.8" (H)

Weight:
7.9 lb. lb

Sound:
16-bit Sound Blaster® Pro-compatible audio, Internal Harman Kardon® speakers, AC audio link, Volume control button and mute button
Keywords: pavilion zv5270us zv5270 zv5200 zv5000
/sbin/lspci output: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Host Bridge (rev a4)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 LPC Bridge (rev a6)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce3 SMBus (rev a4)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 1.1 (rev a5)
0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 1.1 (rev a5)
0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 2.0 (rev a2)
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Audio (rev a2)
0000:00:06.1 Modem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00d9 (rev a2)
0000:00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce3 IDE (rev a5)
0000:00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
0000:00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 AGP Bridge (rev a4)
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go 64M] (rev a3)
0000:02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
0000:02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1620 PC Card Controller (rev 01)
0000:02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1620 PC Card Controller (rev 01)
0000:02:04.2 System peripheral: Texas Instruments PCI1620 Firmware Loading Function (rev 01)


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Old 10-05-2004, 12:18 AM   #1
khermans
 
Registered: Sep 2001
Distribution: Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo
Posts: 162
Thanked: 0
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $1,650.00 | Rating: 3

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.8-gentoo-r5
Distribution: Gentoo Linux (2004.2)



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After getting this laptop just two weeks ago, I have had nothing but trouble with it so far under Gentoo linux in native x86_64 mode. Let me count the ways I hate this laptop (or myself for being an insufficient linux kernel hacker):

1) ACPI / IRQ hogging issue seems to be due to a hardware flaw of a timer pin internally being set incorreclty (no idea here). This causes eth0 to fail after a few minutes and system needs ot be rebooted due to running out of IRQs. You may notice an hda error in dmesg or /var/log/messages when this happens. I had to resort to genkernel to get this problem to go away (avoided - not resolved).

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic....&highlight= http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic....&highlight=

2) Touchpad is not working. No idea whether it is currently supported or not. I have also failed to get my USB mouse working under 64 bit native mode, even though 32 bit mode worked fine.

3) The internal onboard Broadcom 4306 b/g wireless does not seem to have any drivers for 64 bit mode. NDIS wrapper seems to be futile as well.

4) Xorg is having trouble with the official "nvidia" driver, and it fails to load because of an issue with GLX, even if I take it out from xorg.conf. The "nv" driver also has problems with GLX, but even worse, if you get Xorg up and running it kills the ability to get back into a console by using CTRL + ALT + FX, since the refresh never seems to get back to normal all you have is a garbled screen. VESA is the only thing working thus far...

Info seems to be scarce on this laptop. It is my hope that someone will try running linux on this thing other than me, have the same issues, and see this thread. Be sure to send me an email when you do or post a reply so that I can see your frustrations or resolutions as well!!!

Kristian Hermansen

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=238865
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Old 11-30-2004, 11:00 PM   #2
Psycho
 
Registered: Feb 2002
Distribution: Gentoo / SuSE 9.1 Pro (both A64)
Posts: 159
Thanked: 0
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $1,850.00 | Rating: 6

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.9
Distribution: Gentoo


Expanding on Kristians post above.

I've gotten the touchpad working pretty well by using the alps patch available in the synaptics package. I don't have the scroll bar working, but tap to click is OK.

I also have a USB Logitech 'Click!' wheel mouse working fine under Xorg 6.8.0-r4

Using PowerNowK8 with userspace 'on-demand' and powernowd with acpi is working nicely, 800Mhz @ 37 C when demand is low.

The IRQ hogging issue is common enough that I have heard they were discussing kernel level solutions. I'm hoping for an 'enable fix for buggy xxx bios' or something like that. It's not actually causing any problems, other than response time suffers very occasionally. It does not drop my network connection or require a re-boot.

The dvd+r/rw drive has a bios update available that makes it dvd +/- R/RW
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