HP ProBook 4520s

I would like also ask you all, if someone was able to configure the clickpad so that it works as close as possible to normal touchpad. Out of the box (almost 1,5 year ago), it was not possible to right click or drag anything and a multi touch caused unpredictable clicks nad jumps of the cursor. I was able to configure some multi-touch features, so now I have right-click emulated by two-finger tap, middle-click by three finger tap, and scroll by two finger drag (I can live with this). I can drag files/windows by one finger double-tap-hold-and-drag gesture, but this is not so comfortable, because when you need longer grag than the width of the clickpad allows, it is not possible (you have to release the dragged object and then double-tap-hold-and-drag again, which is possible when you are dragging a window, but not when you are dragging a file). The “normal” way, i.e. press the left button, hold it and drag with another finger does not work (or I was not able to configure it). I was not also able to disable touch sensitivity of the button area (which is probably the reason why the “normal” drag could not work).
If someone figured this out, I would be very grateful for description how to do it.

I chnage my hp os from 7 to linux by use of the cd that were with it.how can i come back to windows 7 again? F11 dosent work

I use a 64-bit system (Linux Mint XFCE - Debian testing based) and would like to ask other 64-bit users, if they have working bluetooth. It used to work on a 32-bit version of the same distro, but does not on 64-bit. The bluetooth seems to work until you actually try to connect a device. There are no warnings or error messages, the drivers load fine, the bluetooth manager comes up and shows both in/out traffic. Only that you can not see any device from the notebook, nor the notebook from other devices (both set to visible of course). Trying both default Debian testing kernel and Liquorix one with the same results.

Everything other works mostly fine out of the box, I only had to configure the clickpad to get the right and middle button functionality (throughd multi-touch gestures only, which is not always ideal), and I have sometimes problems with sound through the hdmi output, but that seems to be a pulse audio updates problem.

I am a amature in using linux. please guys help me to get it use it with full efficiency as i am using the windows 7. please guys help me…

I've got another problem with Gnome-shell and Ubuntu 11.10. Watching videos is pretty unpleasant as there's slight screen tearing in action scenes. Is there a bug report for this?

watch this bug to know when the touchpad will be fixed:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38303

I have hp probook 4520s dual boot win 7 and ubuntu 11.04 but ubuntu dont boot it not works???? how I can fix that

Well, I've got a dual-boot setup with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.04 on this machine (version with 2310m and hd 3000 graphics) and it works great. Only it seems that Ubuntu is draining the battery a little faster than Windows and yesterday (about a week since I bought the laptop) Ubuntu froze on me. Don't know if it's the computer's fault or the 11.04, because lot's of things don't work on it quite right.

Oh yeah, face recognition works when screen lock is activated (it even recognizes me with glasses on, while HP software on Windows did not) but doesn't work when booting up. Doesn't initialize.

So, if anyone has ideas regarding the battery drain, I'd sure would like a note. Thanks!

Thibault, thanks for the link to correct Ralink RT3090 driver. I'm writing this comment using wireless network in Ubuntu 10.04 64bit.

thank you

I have Ubuntu 11.4 installed on the HP 4530s - everything works apart from the fingerprint reader.
Plugged in printer and it recognised it straightaway.
Also had OpenSuse on it before I put Ubuntu on it.

Hi all!

I am planning to buy one of these laptops and I need confirmation about the wireless card, which is a “combined Broadcom 802.11b/g/n 1×1 Wi-Fi and 2070 Bluetooth 2.1+EDR”. Unfortunately I don't know the chip nor the PHY version. By the way the laptop itself is a Core i3-380M with Intel graphics version and I'm going to run Ubuntu 10.10 or 11.04 on it.

If possible, please explain the circumstances of a successful test eg. b43, brcm80211 or Broadcom STA driver, 2.4GHz and 5GHz channels, Bluetooth, monitor mode.

I'm also intrested in the fingerprint reader. Could any of you get it to work?

Thanks!

I had only 1h30 of autonomy at first but since I installed laptop-mode-tools and Catalyst I have 3h30.

I just purchased this laptop, and I have installed Mint 10 Gnome. The right-click on the touchpad isn't working, and the wifi card did not configure. I thought this was unusual for Mint since it is based on Ubuntu, and most of the Ubuntu posts report success with the NIC. All FN keys work, Bluetooth works, wired Ethernet works. I haven't tried the mic or webcam yet.

If it makes a difference, I'm running the 64-bit version. If anyone has any ideas to help with these issues, please let me know. Thanks!

I have two issues:

1) The Touchpad is just awful. I've tried installing the PSMouse package but it won't build. Without some way of getting the right click to reliably work it FUBAR'd.

2) It won't shut down. I assume this is a bad driver (wireless maybe?) but I've not got the skill to troubleshoot it. Shame as the over laptop is pretty nice.

For the record I'm using Ubuntu 10.10.

I run VirtualBox on it.. It had enough cores to do virtualisation in it's sleep. BUT there are virtualization instructions in the CPU that you can enable in the bios ..

does this laptop support virtualization?

Has any one tried to run KVM on it ?

tested with Opensuse 11.3

the networkcard has a problem with suspending .. seems a driver problem
i could not get the webcam to work. will test wwan later..
The Fingerprint scanner on my other laptop did not work either. there are drivers for Lenovo laptops…

Ubuntu 10.10 works great. All Fn-s, Card reader and bluetooth are OK. The only problem is right-click on touchpad.

With OpenSuse everything was recognized, except the fingerprint reader.
On ArchLinux, I had to disable some modules to have the wifi working (adding !rt2800pci !rt2x00pci !rt2800usb !rt2x00usb in rc.conf). However I have no right click with the touch-pad. I had wifi and touch-pad troubles with Ubuntu Koala.

I had a problem with wifi using ubuntu 10.04, since the network card (Ralink RT3090) is installed with the wrong driver (RT2860). I just needed to install the correct driver (dependency on dkms.
If “unclaimed” with lshw -C network, you need to delete and re-install the deb.

Hi! has anybody try to configure fingerprint reader in HP Probook 4520s? I tried Debian 5.0, Fedora 14, Gentoo and OpenSolaris. And…I can be possible that the battery only works for 2h?

best regards

I installed Kubuntu 10.10 and the WLAN and Bluetooth don't work… In Ubuntu 10.04, it works all great without any problems.

I just bought the Hp probook 4520s, and installed ubuntu 10.04 lts… no problems, it took care of every thing, such as the blue tooth, wifi, etc.. the ATI drivers installation came as a pop-up, installed that also; no problems

I'm trying to install Kubuntu 10.04 and I encounter a couple of problems. The LiveCD works, but somehow not much else. After the installation Grub did not start up. I had to manually install Grub all over again from the LiveCD. After that, the kernel started booting, but then I would get a blank screen. Apparently, the automatic mode setting from the kernel (2.6.32) somehow is incompatible with the graphics card. After disabling it in the kernel command line (nomodeset), the console now starts, but the Xorg server somehow turns off the backlight… Still working on it.

I have just bought the HP Probook 4520s. I have been using Kubuntu 9.10. Default graphics settings does not work and had to disable acpi=off and added vga=771 to the boot options (F7) on boot screen. Useful guide can be found at http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3099811.0

I hope it helps others - my kubuntu now works like a charm ;)