Archive for the 'hp dv2000' Category
This was posted as a comment - if anyone knows the answer please put it in a comment on this post.
David Rivkin said, on March 25th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Does anyone know what CMOS Image Sensor is used in this HP Pavilion series? I know the controller is the Sonix but I am not sure [...]
my hp dv2000 laptop has a nvidia geforce go 7200 as is evidenced by the following command output
lspci | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce Go 7200 (rev a1)
In 7.04 when trying to run multiple bittorrent downloads I was getting the error Couldn’t listen - (98, ‘Address already in use’).
This can easily be fixed by starting the Gnome configuration editor, then drilling down to the gnome-btdownload settings folder in “Apps”, then set the value of max_port to 6889. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-btdownload/+bug/57039 for more [...]
Vide my previous post, there is also a Gnome ALSA Mixer package called gnome-alsamixer, which is a bit nicer to use.
The sound on my HP dv2000 was pretty quiet since I upgraded to Ubuntu 7.04, even if the volume control was maxed out; this was annoying especially when playing music. The way to fix this is to run alsamixer in the terminal as sudo. It looks like the screen snap below. Just use the left [...]
I discovered that the specific model for my laptop is the dv2024tx. Here is the page from HP.
well this is a bit crap - i hope the extended warantee i purchased with my hp laptop is still valid. stupid windows!!
Linux.com | ChangeLog: Run Linux, lose warranty
Well thanks again to Zac Barton I now have the USB web cam in my dv2000 working.
I tried a number of different drivers, but in the end it was the linux-uvc driver that did the trick. Here are the commands used to get it installed
cd
svn checkout http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/linux-uvc/
cd linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk/
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe uvcvideo
Then run Ekiga and [...]
The best how-to on installing the nVidia binary driver for Dapper
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~djm/ubuntu/#nvidia-driver
