

<vote HP-Pavilion-dv2-1000-series-Rating check=ip>
How do you rate this laptop with Linux?
* Excellent
* Good
* Fair
* Poor
* Unusable
</vote>
====== HP Pavilion dv2-1000 series ======
===== Introduction =====
This is a template for a future guide to running Linux with the HP Pavilion dv2-1000 laptop. If you have the HP Pavilion dv2-1000 and are running Linux on it please consider editing this page or adding a comment below with your compatibility details. By contributing you will help other people running this laptop or trying to make a decision on whether to buy it or not.

This page is just for discussing using Linux on the HP Pavilion dv2-1000. For a general discussion about this laptop you can visit the [[http://www.lapwik.com/hp_pavilion_dv2-1000|HP Pavilion dv2-1000 page on LapWik]].
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===== Specifications =====
For full specifications see the [[http://www.lapspecs.com/wiki/hp+pavilion+dv2-1000|HP Pavilion dv2-1000 specifications page]].

|Name|HP Pavilion dv2-1000 series|
|Processor|AMD AthlonTM Neo Processor for Ultrathin Notebooks MV-40 (1.6 GHz, 512KB L2 Cache)|
|Screen|12.1" WXGA Widescreen|
|RAM|Up to 4GB|
|HDD|160GB to 500GB|
|Optical Drive|None (external only)|
|Graphics|ATI Radeon X1250 \\ ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410 \\ |
|Network|10/100 Ethernet \\ 802.11b/g \\ 802.11a/b/g/n|
===== Linux Compatibility =====
^Device^Compatibility^Comments^
|Processor|OK| |
|Screen|OK| |
|HDD|OK| |
|Optical Drive|OK| |
|Graphics|OK| |
|Sound|OK| |
|Ethernet|OK| |
|Wireless|OK|Linux kernel > 2.6.29|
|Bluetooth|N/A|OK with USB dongle|
|Modem|N/A| |
|USB|OK| |
|Card Reader|OK|Including boot \\ from SD Card|
|Webcam|OK| |
===== Notes =====
This is actually a family of laptops, encompassing all dv2-10//xx//**yy** models.  For example, the unit I have made the initial tests and reports on is a dv2-1010ez.  The general characteristics of the entire family are basically the same.

Be careful, some models in this family have Bluetooth and some do not.  The 1010ez that I tested does not.
===== Summary =====
At the time of this writing (September 2009), many of the components in this laptop are still new enough that support for them in Linux distributions is not yet uniform.  The AMD Athalon Neo CPU, ATI Radeon graphic adapter and Atheros AR9285 wireless adapter are all touch-and-go.  The only distributions I have found so far which seem to support everything "out of the box" are openSuSE 11.2 Milestone 7, which is obviously still in the test phase, and Zenwalk 6.2.  I will post more complete details about various distributions in the comments section below.