HPDV4000

Revision 10 as of 2006-05-11 07:12:44

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Current Issues

DAPPER ISSUE SUMMARY

Latest test: Dapper Beta with all updates 11 May 2006

Bluetooth: my phone could see my Dapper laptop, but the laptop couldn't see in the discoverable phone with hidd --search. No gnome frontend available.

Hibernate: sometimes works but sometimes seems to freeze with a blank screen whilst hibernating

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

Yes

3D Acceleration

Yes

Yes

External monitor works?

Untested

No

External monitor - mirrors

Untested

Untested

External monitor - extend desktop

Untested

Untested

Power Management

Battery detected?

Yes

Yes

Hibernates?

No

Sometimes

Sleep

No

Yes

Dim monitor on battery

Yes

Yes

Blank monitor on inactivity

No

Yes

Lid Close

No

No

Cpu frequency scaling

Yes*

Yes

Sound

Sound works?

Yes

Yes

Correct volume?

Yes

Yes

Hardware volume switch

Yes

Yes

Headphone jack

Yes

Yes

Mic jack

Yes

Untested

Networking

Wired NIC

Yes

Yes

Wireless NIC

Yes

Yes

PCMCIA NIC

Untested

Untested

Firewire

Untested

Untested

Bluetooth

Yes

No*

Modem

Untested

Untested

Infrared

Untested

Untested

Touchpad & Mice

Touchpad

Yes

Yes

Touchpad - Doubletap = double click

Yes

Yes

Touchpad - Scroll down side

Yes/No*

Yes

External mouse - USB

Yes

Yes

External mouse - Serial

Untested

Untested

Docking Station/Port Replicator

AC through replicator

Untested

Untested

USB

Untested

Untested

Serial

Untested

Untested

Parallel

Untested

Untested

External Monitor - VGA

Untested

Untested

External Monitor - DVI

Untested

Untested

Modem

Untested

Untested

NIC

Untested

Untested

PS/2

Untested

Untested

Additional Hardware

Fingerprint reader

Untested

Untested

CD/DVD drive

Yes

Untested

PCMCIA cards

Yes

Yes

Parallel Ports

Untested

Untested

Card reader(s)

No

Partial (SD cards work, MemorySticks don't work)

Function and other keys

Fn key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Breezy?

in Dapper (current development)?

+ Space

Nothing

Yes

Yes

+ Esc

Nothing

Yes

Yes

+ F1

Help

0x80 0x81 0x8a

Yes

Yes

+ F2

Print

0x1d 0x19 0x99 0x9d

Yes

No

+ F3

Web Browser

0x80 0x81 0x96

Yes

Yes

+ F4

External display

<none>

No*

No

+ F5

Sleep

0xe0 0x5f 0xe0 0xdf

No*

Yes

+ F6

Lock

0xe0 0x18 0xe0 0x98

No*

Yes

+ F7

Brightness down

<none>

Yes

Yes

+ F8

Brightness up

<none>

Yes

Yes

+ F9

Media - play/pause

0xe0 0x22 0xe0 0xa2

Yes

No

+ F10

Media - stop

0xe0 0x24 0xe0 0xa4

Yes

No

+ F11

Media - skip back

0xe0 0x10 0xe0 0x90

Yes

No

+ F12

Media - skip forward

0xe0 0x19 0xe0 0x99

Yes

No

+ 1

Nothing

Yes

*

+ 2

Nothing

Yes

*

Other special keys

Key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Breezy?

in Dapper (current development)?

Wireless Hotkey

Switch Wireless on/off

<none>

Yes

Yes

DVD

Launch DVD app

0xe0 0x72 0xe0 0xf2

No

No

Audio

Launch Music player

0xe0 0x3c 0xe0 0xbc

Yes

Yes

Notes

*CPU frequency scaling:the applet shows 800MHz / 46% - are you supposed to be able to change it? Does it mean my CPU is running at half speed?

*Touchpad - scroll down side: It worked to begin with but at some unidentified point today stopped working, and logouts or reboots don't help. No idea why.

*External display: Fn-F4 doesn't trigger anything or even attempt to switch displays. There is no keycode output by showkey for this: I guess the BIOS intercepts or something - it's the same for Fn-F7/Fn-F8 which control the brightness, and the wireless on/off key.

*Sleep - Fn-F5 doesn't trigger any action

*Lock - Fn-F6 is supposed to lock the machine (I think) but actually it ejects the CD drive instead! Quite handy. On Dapper, it no longer ejects the CD drive, but doesn't do anything at all.

*Fn-1, 2 etc. bring up a small text box on bottom right of Nautilus window if it has focus - not sure what this is.

*Screen res in Dapper: OK in install (after user selecting available modes during install); wrong in Live

USB mass storage devices work fine.

Video: totem-gstreamer DVD playback is slow and jerky (even with DMA enabled); totem-xine is fine - not sure if this is problem with this laptop's hardware, or totem-gstreamer in general.

Vodafone 3G card: I have one of these 3G PCMCIA cards and it works on Breezy with a bit of modules config, and on Dapper all that's needed is a pppd script to connect.

Hibernate (suspend to hard disk) option is offered by GDM and hibernate shutdown completed, however on starting ahead freezes after re-loading memory snapshot, and have to power off to and reboot normally. This works fine with SuSE 10.

Sleep (suspend to RAM) option not offered from GDM.

I don't believe there's a friendly way to configure external monitors for laptop in Ubuntu (either xinerama or mirror) and I haven't tried attempting it by editing xorg.conf. The laptop can manage to drive two monitors in 'mirror' config with OpenSuSE 10.

It's a shame the built-in cardreaders don't work, but I don't think there are any linux drivers around for these things anyway.

  • How happily wrong am I! They work fine on Dapper!