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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Ongoing X Issues w/ hp zd7000

The NVIDIA X server module is still not loading - or is not loading correctly - on the hp pavilion zd7000.

Additional Information

NVIDIA GPU Selected for Revolutionary HP Notebook — a press release from nvidia.com that talks about the NVIDIA chipset used in the zd7000
Linux on zd7000 — a detailed summary of what worked and didn't / tips & tricks for getting Linux working on the zd7000 [the page sez "Last update: 08/24/2004" – didn't realize this machine was that old 8-|
opensuse – NVIDIA The_hard_way
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/ — current release(s) of the xorg X-server.
Re: openSuse 11.1 Beta NVIDIA driver available — A post about the NVIDIA driver / x-server download site
nv Vs. nvidia in xorg.conf at LinuxQuestions.org

Labels: hp, linux, nvidia, pavilion, x, zd7000

posted by pd wilson # 04:10

Friday, March 20, 2009

xorg.conf file for hp pavilion zd7000

#
#  X-server configuration file.
#
#  Place this file at /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restart the X server 
#  in order to start using the provided configuration.
#
#  This is the xorg.conf file that fixes the X-server config 
#  problems on the hp pavilion zd7000 laptop running OpenSuSE 11.0
#
#  The source of this file is/was: 
#    http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jpatota/linux/knoppix/xorg.conf
#
#
Section "ServerLayout"
 Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
 Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
 InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
# PS/2 Mouse not detected
# Serial Mouse not detected
        InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
 Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "true"
 
EndSection

Section "Files"
 RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
 ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
 FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc:unscaled"
 FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi:unscaled"
 FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi:unscaled"
 FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
 FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Speedo"
 FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/PEX"
# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
 FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
# FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/latin2/75dpi"
# FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
 FontPath     "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
 FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
 FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
EndSection

Section "Module"
# Comments: see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=346408
 Load  "dbe" # Double Buffering Extension, very important.
 Load  "dri" # This shouldn't be available choice if user has selected driver vga, vesa or nv.
 Load  "glx" # GLX Extension.
 Load  "freetype" # Freetype fonts.
 Load  "type1"  # Type 1 fonts
 Load  "record" # Developer extension, usually not needed
# Load  "extmod" # This is okay, but if you look into "man xorg.conf" you'll find option NOT to include DGA extension with extmod, and for a good reason.. DGA causes instability as it access videoram without consulting X about it.
 SubSection      "extmod"
  Option          "omit xfree86-dga"
 EndSubSection
# Load  "speedo" # Speedo fonts, this module doesn't exist in Xorg 7.0.17
# The following are deprecated/unstable/unneeded in Xorg 7.0
#       Load  "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor, this should be never present, as it gets automatically loaded.
# Load  "GLcore" # This should be never present, as it gets automatically loaded.
#       Load  "bitmap" # Should be never present, as it gets automatically loaded. This is a font module, and loading it in xorg.conf makes X try to load it twice.
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier  "Keyboard0"
 Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
 Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
 Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
 Option "XkbLayout" "us"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier  "Serial Mouse"
 Driver      "mouse"
 Option      "Protocol" "Microsoft"
 Option      "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
 Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
 Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
 Option     "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
 Driver      "mouse"
 Option      "Protocol" "auto"
Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
 Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
 Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
 Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
 Option     "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "USB Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
 Option  "SendCoreEvents" "true"
        Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option          "Buttons"               "5"
EndSection

# Auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Monitor0"
 Option "DPMS" "true"
 HorizSync    30 - 64
 VertRefresh  50 - 100
 Modeline "1440x900" 97.54 1440 1472 1840 1872 900 919 927 946
EndSection

Section "Device"
 ### Available Driver options are:-
# sw_cursor is needed for some ati and radeon cards
        #Option     "sw_cursor"
        #Option     "hw_cursor"
        #Option     "NoAccel"
        #Option     "ShowCache"
        #Option     "ShadowFB"
        #Option     "UseFBDev"
        #Option     "Rotate"
 Identifier  "Card0"
# The following line is auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config
 Driver      "nv"
 VendorName  "All"
 BoardName   "All"
# BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
 Option "MetaModes" "1440x900"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Screen0"
 Device     "Card0"
 Monitor    "Monitor0"
 DefaultColorDepth 16
  SubSection "Display"
  Viewport 0 0
  Depth 24
  Modes "1440x900"
 EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
 Mode 0666
EndSection

Labels: config, file, hp, linux, pavilion, x, xorg.conf, zd7000

posted by pd wilson # 02:46

NVIDIA X-server problems with hp pavilion zd7000

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jpatota/linux/knoppix/index.html

A week or so ago I managed to munge the X-server configuration on the hp pavilion zd7000 linux laptop I've been using for about a month now. The X-server quit working after some set of package installs and/or system updates wherein I was trying to get the correct NVIDIA™ display drivers installed such that I could use the various "transparency" and "translucency" settings on the shiny new KDE 4.x desktop.

The fix given on the page Configuring and Running Knoppix on the HP Pavilion zd7000 works, even though the OS distribution listed as the application environment for the fix is given as KNOPPIX. and the distro I have on the hp is OpenSuSE 11.0.

For the record, the fix is/was:

Download the xorg.conf from http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jpatota/linux/knoppix/xorg.conf and install it as /etc/X11/xorg.conf –

I have posted a copy of the xorg.conf file recommended above at http://blogs.earthside.org/earth_tech/2009/03/xorgconf-file-for-hp-pavilion-zd7000.html.

I have downloaded the file in question, and am uploading attached to this post as an "enclosure" …

Or, "just–in–case" the enclosure doesn't enclose, I will paste a copy of the file into a subsequent posting on this blog.

Labels: config, hp, knoppix, laptop, linux, nvdia, opensuse, x, zd7000

posted by pd wilson # 02:05

Thursday, July 19, 2007

erratta: KNOPPIX audio is working

http://blogs.earthside.org/earth_tech/2007/07/audio-problems-on-hp-pavilian-a220n.html

This is to correct a statement I made previously in a post on this log [earth tech] about KNOPPIX and the audio capability on the HP Pavilion a220n.

The audio input does in fact work under the KNOPPIX 5.0.1 LiveCD release. I missed this because, while the audio output worked fine once the audio sub-system was enabled via the KDE Control Center | Sounds & Multimedia | Sound System control panel, the mic input levels were defaulting to zero, so no singal was being captured.

Links:

Labels: a220n, audio, errata, hp, kde, linux, pavilion, sound

posted by pd wilson # 05:44

Sunday, July 15, 2007

More about KNOPPIX and the HP a220n

The X log file on the HP Pavilion a220n running KNOPPIX:

uploads/Xorg.0.log.TXT

This file is found at /var/log/Xorg.0.log on the system while the system is running.

Labels: config, hp, knoppix, linux, pavilion, x

posted by pd wilson # 09:47

Full dmesg Output for a220n under KNOPPIX

Capture of the output of the command dmesg performed under KNOPPIX on the HP Pavilion a220n:

uploads/a220n-KNOPPIX-dmesg-output.txt

Here is the output of uname -a for this same system:

Linux Knoppix 2.6.17 #4 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 10 13:53:45 CEST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

Labels: a220n, dmesg, hp, knoppix, linux, pavilion

posted by pd wilson # 09:07

Audio Problems on HP Pavilian a220n under Debian Linux

This is an excerpt from the output of the lsmod command run under KNOPPIX on an HP Pavilion a220n desktop computer:

snd_intel8x0           31260  3
snd_ac97_codec         88352  1 snd_intel8x0
8250_pnp               12288  0
snd_ac97_bus            6016  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            38176  0
snd_mixer_oss          17536  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                73220  4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              22148  2 snd_pcm
shpchp                 37032  0
i2c_nforce2             9856  0
snd                    44768  10 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer

For some reason neither KNOPPIX 5.0.1 nor the Debian install to the hard disk [provided by the KNOPPIX LiveCD via the knoppix-installer command] seem to be able to get the audio input functionality of the sound card working.

Audio output works okay when the Sound System is enabled via the KNOPPIX control panel, but does not appear to work under the Debian instantiation of KDE.

No version numbers captured yet from the Debian kernel, or the versions of KDE involved (which are different between the Debian install (with updates) and the KNOPPIX distro.

Labels: a220n, audio, debian, hp, knoppix, linux, pavilion, sound

posted by pd wilson # 08:48