HPDV51124CA
Identification
Make: Hewlett Packard (HP)
Brand: Pavilion Entertainment PC
Model: DV5-1124CA (equipped with an 1.90 GHz AMD Athlon X2 QL-60 Dual-Core Processor)
Contact: marco.laverdiere (tip to find email address: Google service!)
What you want to know
Everything works pretty well out of the box with Intrepid (8.10), with 2.6.27-11-generic kernel, except for these minor annoyances:
- Suspend to ram
The kernel boot option i8042.reset has to be used for suspend to ram to work. It must be added to the Grub menu.lst file, in /boot/grub, as in the following:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic root=UUID=e805a537-55fa-4e4f-8f3d-866780911afc ro quiet splash i8042.reset
Once this option has been added, you have to reboot.
For more details, see message #15 in this thread for more details: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1047284&page=2
Also, I'm not sure if it has something to do with the suspend issue under Ubuntu, but just in case, it could be a good idea to do the BIOS upgrade, as provided by HP: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=2093&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=ca&lang=en&product=3828098
Finally, see these bug reports on the suspend issue with HP-DV5:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/332805
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/301353
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11368
- Wifi card
The internal card works out of the box (so there's nothing to install) with the quite new (when Intrepid was released) ath9k driver: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k
The only minor thing is that the wifi button, on the upper part of the keyboard, doesn't work. Not a big deal... Maybe it will work in a future ath9k version.
Also, I didn't manage to have ndiswrapper work with this card, using the Windows drivers provided by HP: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=2093&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=ca&lang=en&product=3828098
Good luck!