CompaqEvoN1020v

Current Issues


Unable to test docking station for Dapper, as do not have one. On install of Dapper Beta, both 8139cp and 8139too modules were loaded. This seemed to cause massive amounts of software interupts to be generated - [ksoftirqd] was sitting at around 50% cpu usage. Dropping the eth0 interface with ip link set eth0 down, and rmmodding both modules, then modprobing the 8139cp driver and then bringing up eth0 fixed it.

Second boot did not have these issues. On third boot all seems fine - even though both modules are loaded. Install did find network and aquire dhcp lease.

Powernowd does not work on boot. This is fixable.

Hardware details

in Breezy?

in Dapper (current development)?

Installation works?

yes

yes

Hardware Information

Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

in Breezy?

in Dapper (current development)?

Screen

yes

yes

Correct resolution?

yes

yes

Correct refresh rate?

yes (is LCD)

yes (is LCD)

3D Acceleration

yes, but v.slow

Untested

External monitor works?

Yes

Untested

External monitor - mirrors

Yes

Untested

External monitor - extend desktop

Untested

Untested

External monitor - tvout

yes, but need atitvout, and set from command line

Power Management

Battery detected?

yes

yes

Hibernates?

Untested

Untested

Sleep

Untested

Untested

Dim monitor on battery

not in console, untested in X

not in console, untested in X

Blank monitor on inactivity

Yes

yes

Lid Close

Yes

yes

Cpu frequency scaling

yes, but needs festering to work, then further festering to work well

Untested, but suspect similar to breezy

Sound

Sound works?

yes, on install!

yes, on install!

Correct volume?

yes

yes

Hardware volume switch

yes

yes

Headphone jack

Yes - think its hardware as mutes speakers

Yes - think its hardware as mutes speakers

Mic jack

Yes

Untested

Networking

Wired NIC

yes - out of box perfect

yes, but required festering, see above.

Wireless NIC

Haven't tested system optional one, but is usb + ornico wavelan, should not be a problem, didnt work without festering to get pcmcia rt2500 working

pcmcia rt2500 works with rt2500.ko module automagically installed

PCMCIA NIC

Untested

Untested

Firewire

Appears to detect, but causes issues with network

Appears to detect, no issues with network

Bluetooth

Detected, mission to get working, and then patchy

Detected

Modem

no (winmodem)

no (winmodem)

Infrared

Working, required festering

Untested

Touchpad & Mice

Touchpad

yes

yes

Touchpad - Doubletap = double click

yes

yes

Touchpad - Scroll down side

Untested

Yes

Touchpad - Two finger sychronous spaced tap = middle mouse button

Untested

yes

4-way button - Scroll up/down

Untested

yes

4-way button - left/right

Untested

Left = back in firefox, right = forward in firefox

External mouse - USB

yes

yes

External mouse - Serial

Untested

Untested

Docking Station/Port Replicator

AC through replicator

yes

Untested

USB

yes

Untested

Serial

Untested

Untested

Parallel

Untested

Untested

External Monitor - VGA

yes

Untested

External Monitor - DVI

Untested

Untested

Modem

Untested

Untested

NIC

Untested

Untested

PS/2

Untested

Untested

Additional Hardware

Fingerprint reader

N/A

N/A

CD/DVD drive

yes

yes

PCMCIA cards

Yes

yes

Parallel Ports

Untested

Untested

Card reader(s)

N/A

N/A

Function and other keys

Fn key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Breezy?

in Dapper (current development)?

+ Space

Untested

Untested

+ Esc

Untested

Untested

+ F1

Untested

Untested

+ F2

Wireless on/off (can be either bluetooth or wifi, depends on addon board)

Works

Works

+ F3

Sleep

Untested

Untested

+ F4

Monitor switcher

Couldn't seem to get working

Untested

+ F5

Untested

Untested

+ F6

Untested

Untested

+ F7

Dim screen

Yes

Yes

36157

+ F8

Brighten screen

Yes

Yes

36157

+ F9

Play/Pause

Yes, with fester

Untested

+ F10

Stop

Yes, with fester

Untested

+ F11

Skip back

Yes, with fester

Untested

+ F12

Skip forward

Yes, with fester

Untested

+ 1

Untested

Untested

+ 2

Untested

Untested

Other special keys

||<|2> Key ||<|2> Operation ||<|2> Keycode ||<-2> Works? ||<|2> Bug #

in Breezy?

in Dapper (current development)?

Key

Untested

Untested

+ Scroll

Num lock

Works

Works

Notes

Setting the numlock (by Fn+Scroll) turns on the number keypad - appears to be done in hardware, will be seen in grub if on then.

Something really odd: /proc/cpuinfo reports that one of the flags is ht - hyperthreading... on a laptop - am going to try to enable it and see what happens - dosen't work, reports being 'Disabled'. - Reason is because the config-2.6.16-20-686 file has CONFIG_X86_HT_DISABLE=y

To get powernowd working: modprobe p4-clockmod, restart powernowd To get powernowd working better: edit line 13 of /etc/init.d/powernowd, replace OPTIONS="-q" with OPTIONS="-q -u10 -l7 -p150 -n" -not seeming to work atm, will report back later - works. Just need to wait for cpu usage to drop Smile :) -q = quiet -u10 = CPU upper usage limit before upping freq -l7 = CPU lower usage limit before dropping freq -p150 = polling frequency in msec (default is 1 sec, which is far too slow to react to window changes that require the cpu to kick up a gear) -n = Include nice'd processes in calculations - not sure why its there, but probably something todo with making windowing feel responsive.

Window movement seems far more snappy than on breezy. Is currently running the 686 kernel, not the stock 386 kernel.

I've used a different version of this laptop with the N1020v badge, but with different specs - 1.6GHz Celeron, 256M Ram, 30G HDD, 14" screen, touchpad has no 4 way hat switch below it, has IBM style pointing stick in keyboard + two buttons below space bar + touch pad with two buttons below that. Appeared to have same motherboard - had same network card/modem/irda/cdrw+dvd/inbuilt floppy/firewire and requisite backport. Fitted same docking bay as well.

LaptopTestingTeam/Old/CompaqEvoN1020v (last edited 2012-01-21 09:58:55 by vpn-3091)