[juneau-lug] Re: HP Pavilion dv9000z

  • From: Jamie <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:20:10 -0900

How bout the wireless - made it talk yet?  Which driver?

James Zuelow wrote:
> Yeah, the geek factor of the laptop is pretty high.
>
> But it's not all roses --
>
> The nVidea nForce chipset isn't fully supported.  So I need to disable some 
> parts of ACPI to get it to boot and remain up.  And I still get the 
> occasional lockup.  The solution is to turn off ACPI completely, but then I 
> lose important things like powernow support.
>
> The headphones do not work.  There is a headphone jack and a s/pdif jack.  
> Neither work.  I do have sound from the main speakers, but the alsa system 
> only sees one master volume level - no right/left, and the microphone level 
> is permanently set at 0.
>
> Everything else seems to work fine.  During this week I'll test the ieee1394 
> system thoroughly, as there's no point in having the DVD burner if I can't 
> pull video off of my miniDV recorders.
>
> The only way cool thing so far is that the remote control is hardware based, 
> not Windows based.  So I can turn the machine on from 10 feet away and make 
> Grub choices with the remote buttons.  Now if I can figure out how to get the 
> remote to open the display and select a DVD from the other room.  Maybe I 
> need an Aibo...
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