HP Pavilion dv5-1000 Series [Linux Laptop Wiki]

Device	Compatibility	Comments
Processor	Yes
Screen	Yes
HDD	Yes
Optical Drive	Yes
Graphics	Yes
Sound	Yes	See notes
Ethernet	Yes
Wireless	Yes	See notes
Bluetooth	Yes
USB	Yes
Firewire	Not Tested
Card Reader	Not Tested
ExpressCard Slot	Not Tested
Fingerprint Reader	Not Tested
Camera	Yes	See notes

matthew, Monday 05 of January, 2009 [02:05:02]

Thanks Lilliverden for the suggestion. I made the suggested post-video change but it didn't fix my problem (though it did change it a bit I think–I need to test some more).

vaibhav, fwiw, I hate the touch pad on this thing. I'll admit I'm no huge fan of touchpads in general because I have a problem with accidentally touching them in ways that makes stuff screw up but this one is particularly troublesome for me. Interestingly it comes with an on off switch–as if HP knew the thing was problematic. But turning it on and off each time you need to type vs use the mouse is a big hassle. I'm not sure why this touch pad seems so much worse than others but I find it particularly problematic. It's my wife's computer and she has the same problem despite having last used a dell inspiron laptop with a touchpad (which she like and I also didn't like–though it wasn't half as bad as this one).

Vaibhav, Monday 05 of January, 2009 [05:09:06]

Thanks matthew for the highlighting the sensitivity of the touchpad. Was wondering if the sticky touchpad surface also causes trouble while moving the pointer.

mahesh kumar, Sunday 04 of January, 2009 [06:25:18]

what are the details
we can ge through it if we buy te product .
can we get vista cd & recovery cd free from the company.

Lilleverden, Sunday 04 of January, 2009 [14:01:08]

When you buy a HP, you can burn your recovery CD/DVD with the recovery software that are included, always remember to do this when you buy a HP or any other PC!

Matthew, Wednesday 31 of December, 2008 [04:12:26]

I've got the DV5t-1000. I installed Linux Mint Felicia (based on Ubuntu 8.1 Intrepid Ibix). Maybe I'm making some dumb mistake but the web cam doesn't seem to work. Neither suspend nor hibernate work. Everything else works great. If others are getting the webcam to work on this one I woudl love any pointers.

Lilleverden, Wednesday 31 of December, 2008 [05:31:50]

Suspend hibernate
you are right, i never put mine in suspend, i have not tried this yet, but try this

if resume from standby still gives you a black empty screen with only the cursor then edit the following file:

sudo gedit /etc/default/acpi-support

go to POST_VIDEO=
and set it POST_VIDEO=false

in the same file nVidia suggests to disable use of VBE to restore power states for improved stability on resume:

Some distributions use a tool called vbetool to save and restore VGA adapter state. This tool is incompatible with NVIDIA GPUs’ Video BIOSes and is likely to lead to problems restoring the GPU and its state. Disabling calls to this tool in your distribution’s init scripts may improve power management reliability.

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/169.07/README/chapter-18.html

In order to accomplish with these suggestions make sure this line shows as follows:

# Should we save and restore state using the VESA BIOS Extensions?
SAVE_VBE_STATE=false

By the way I myself have found no problems in keeping SAVE_VBE_STATE true and actually it seems to be also a workaround for some resume problems.

Lilleverden, Thursday 25 of December, 2008 [13:58:25]

Hey
me again an update on stuff

I could wait for answers so i just went ahead installing Ubuntu 8.10
Results
Wireless = Works

HDMI = Works
First you activate Nvidia drivers, then you connect HDMI cable, then you open terminal and type “gksudo nvidia-settings” then you choose the settings you want( i choose Twinview and clone ) then apply, then save config. this was a hassle cause i could save the config file. tried sudo nvidia-setting, you could change, but not save the config, so when you restarted you had to do it all over again.

Surround Sound with Express-dock = works
You have to open the volume control and then choose settings, and enable IEC958 switches, then choose close, then choose the Switches tab, and enable IEC958

Bluetooth mouse and keyboard = works

Network cable = works full speed 1000 mbit

Notice = when having mkv file playback there is a lot of jagged lines, almost like interlaced… any suggestions?

Sorry for my terrible English

Lilleverden, Wednesday 24 of December, 2008 [18:36:45]

Hey
I have a 1095eo, an have downloaded ubuntu 8.10. however i have some issues before i install, i use my laptop as a media center, i use Bluetooth mouse and keyboard. and i use the express dock

Qusetions:

Will i get digital sound with ubuntu?`(surround)
Will the esata connection work?
Can the laptop be closed when it boots up and detect bluetooth devices at login?
And Will HDMI work at login?

Many questions

ahhzzy, Wednesday 17 of December, 2008 [16:57:45]

I purchased a HP Pavillion dv5-1000us in aug of 2008 for school. Model i have has the intel x4500hd wifi sound all work and i get 1280×800 on the 15.4 display though im stuck at 4:3 and 1024×768 with my acer 16:10 20 inch lcd. Im running ubuntu 32 bit ver 8.10 with a 2.6.27 kernel.

Paul Swanson, Tuesday 16 of December, 2008 [08:49:52]

I have a HP Pavilion dv5 (1075er). The latest Ubuntu 8.10, with all updates, works very well on it with noticeable exception of resume from suspend being broken, although hibernate does work. There is a bug report for this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/301353

The installation of Ubuntu will be easiest if you do it connected to the Internet via an Ethernet cable; video, sound (and volumes), web cam, hot keys, card reader, touch pad, etc.. will all be detected and functioning.

I haven't tried the HDMI or eSATA connections.

Sergio Romano, Wednesday 03 of December, 2008 [15:15:59]

I bought this laptop, it also worked out of the box with Kubuntu 8.10 (linux kernel 2.6.27). WebCam works, sound works, wireless works, kde 4.1 works

Nardus, Friday 26 of September, 2008 [09:26:48]

Opensuse 11

This notebook work out of the box. I wiped the disk and installed Opensuse. I do not dual boot, so be careful if you need Vista. The notebook don't ship with media, it is all on the hard driver for recovery.

Got some issues with kde4.1 and nvidia. But this seems to be an nvidia driver issue and hopefully be fixed in the near future. You can turn desktop effects off, to get past the nvidia driver problems.

The HP WebCam works !!!!! :)

The only thing that does not work yet is the wireless stuff. But this is also claimed to be working in the new 2.6.27 branch. Opensuse is on 2.6.25

I love my HP……

vaibhav, Friday 05 of December, 2008 [18:49:11]

Hey Guys ,
Thanks for your post/comments about the hpdv5 laptop.
I am thinking of buying a laptop and install linux on it, trying to decide between dell studio 15 and hp dv5 with wsxga+ screen. Any comments on the graphichs and the touch pad for hpdv5 which is very polished and I think would bother me because my fingers dont slide smoothly over it.

Thanks in advance.

Vaibhav

~matrix, Thursday 18 of December, 2008 [22:26:07]

My notebook is dv5-1116el, all hardware works with linux!
not tested: firewire, ExpressCard Slot

follow this link for a mini howto ;-)
http://0x6d6174726978.blogspot.com/2008/12/hp-dv5-1116el-with-linux.html

Name	HP Pavilion DV5-1000 Series
Processor	Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 2.8Ghz
Screen	15.4” WXGA Widescreen
RAM	1GB
HDD	250GB
Optical Drive	DVD+-RW
Graphics	NVIDIA Geforce 9200M
Network	Ethernet, Intel Wifi Link 5100 802.11abgn, Bluetooth

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