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| Name | HP ProBook 4525s |
| Processor | AMD Phenom II Quad-Core mobile processor P920 (1.6 GHz, 2MB L2 cache) AMD Phenom II Triple-Core mobile processor P820 (1.8 GHz, 1.5MB L2 cache) AMD Turion II Dual-Core mobile processor P520 (2.3 GHz, 2MB L2 cache) AMD Athlon II Dual-Core processor P320 (2.1 GHz, 1MB L2 cache) / P340 (2.2 GHz, 1MB L2 cache) AMD V-series processor V120 (2.2 GHz, 512KB L2 cache) |
| Screen | 15.6” (1366×768) Widescreen |
| RAM | Up to 8GB |
| HDD | 250GB to 500GB |
| Optical Drive | DVD+-RW Blu-ray |
| Graphics | ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v |
| Network | 10/100/1000 Ethernet Broadcom 802.11b/g/n |
| Device | Compatibility | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Processor (P820) | Yes | Tested on SLED 11 and Fedora 13 and SimplyMEPIS 8.5 (Debian 5.0) on the same HP ProBook 4525s WK400EA laptop. |
| Processor (P340) | Yes | Ubuntu 10.10 |
| Screen | Yes | Using 0x3EF or 0x3F0 VGA mode for console frame buffer probably is the best. |
| HDD | Yes | |
| Optical Drive | Yes | Reading and writing media. LightScribe function is not tested yet. |
| Graphics (530v) | Partial | The ATI HD 530v driver is presented on HP site for SLED 11. Graphics work on Debian 6 |
| Graphics (4250) | Yes | On Ubuntu 10.10 |
| Sound | Yes | |
| Ethernet | Yes | |
| Wireless | Yes | With the proprietary Broadcom-Wlan drivers of ubuntu 10.10. Only Managed and Ad-Hoc modes are supported with this driver. |
| Bluetooth | Not Tested | |
| Modem | Not Tested | |
| USB | Yes | the ports are quite tight |
| ESATA | Yes | |
| Card Reader | Not Tested | |
| ExpressCard Slot | Not Tested | |
| Webcam | Yes | Tested on SLED 11. It seems the video capture system has small frame rate on some resolutions. |
Some (but not all) desktop effects are disabled in KDE 4 on the SimplyMEPIS because XOrg is running with
VESA driver.
Graphics work fine under Ubuntu 10.10 (HD 4250) with shipped OpenSource driver and with proprietary driver.
OR
The Ubuntu 10.10 CD doesn't select the right video settings, making the screen completely white and therefore unusable. (which graphics card?)
The touchpad is very unusable because the area above the buttons moves the cursor as well. That makes it very difficult to position left clicks correctly or dragging windows over the desktop.
And when using the keyboard, touchpad is sensitive and suddenly makes unwanted klicks.
Laptop works fine (at least mine) under Linux, but the (not to disable) touchpad is annoying.
Discussion
I tested my 4525s with pinguy (ubuntu based), slackware, and finaly opensuse.
there are drivers for the trackpad on opensuse 32bit version, so it works great now. only problem is that Im not to found of opensuse, but it will have to due. And for the record: I removed the hp tools and system recovery partitions for good. i hate to have that crap on my hard drive.
i had the same problem - but just copied the restore partition, not the HP_tools. HP Tools are for instant boot ( EFI ) the other partition is for rebuild the system. i used paragon backup and recover under windows ( free ) to put the partition on a nas, then create a logic free to use it with debian which builds several needed partitions in it.
MS Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Debian 6 ( squeeze ) amd64
I used Ubuntu 10.10 amd64
What's ugly is that it comes with 4 primary partitions on the disk.
If you want to setup dualboot with the preinstalled windows, you have to delete a partition to create an extended partition where you can create more partitions.
I tried to remove the HP_TOOLS partition and recreate it in the extended part, but now the recovery-mode doesnt work anymore.
But that's not that important, as the preinstalled windows is anyways crowded crapware.