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HP zv5000
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1 4748 08-08-2006
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Description: AMD 64-bit Processor, 512 MB RAM 100GB HD, DVD Burner / CD Burner, 3 USB, 1x Firewire, 17" widescreen, S-Video, SmartCard reader, harmon kardon speakers, NVidia GeForce Go 440 AGP

Decent support with Ubuntu Hoary....Warty will not work...too new. Currently not able to run nvidia-glx (6629) drivers in full screen mode due to incompatibility with the newest drivers and xorg. Funny lil' hack to get the touchpad working. For some reason i had to add:

modprobe -r psmouse;
modprobe psmouse;

to the gdm init.d script in order for my touchpad to get recognized, sound works, wireless will probably work with ndis wrapper and the 64-bit windows drivers (Broadcom 4306), USB storage devices are autodetected w/ ubuntu, I didn't look into getting the SmartDigital Card reader to work but I think it's possible....overall ubuntu rocks the house...can't wait til a couple months down the line when the hardware support gets better for my brand new beast :)
Keywords: hp zv5000 amd 64
/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 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
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 C ontroller (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: Unknown device ac54 (rev 01)
0000:02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac54 (rev 01)
0000:02:04.2 System peripheral: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8201 (rev 01)


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Old 08-08-2006, 06:02 AM   #1
Ian_Hawdon
 
Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: openSUSE 10.3, Ubuntu 7.10 Server, Fedora Core 3
Posts: 299
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.13-15-default
Distribution: SuSE 10.0



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Most things work. followed guide at: http://web.purplefrog.com/~thoth/zv5000/

My zv5000 has different hardware then the one in the article, (My screen is 1280x800)

The xorg.conf he provides does the business when edited for my hardware.

The modem DOES (i repeat) DOES work when using the smartlink drivers and ALSA

Ndiswrapper also performs nicely.

BUT, i only run the 32bit version of the OS, mainly because some vital programs (flash player) hasn't been developed for 64bit yet, but once Micro$oft release Wimbloze Vista, I'm sure people will start developing 64bit software, and i will be able to have a second attempt :D
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