[opensuse] Laptop: HP Pavillion dv8t (opinions)
I'm looking at an HP Pavillion dv8t which I'll use exclusively to run openSUSE. Core i7 Nvidia GeForce GT 230M Intel Wireless-N Card Does anyone have any experience with this machine, or the specifications [specifically the Nvidia card, which seems very new]? <http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_can_series.do?storeName=computer_store&category=notebooks&a1=Category&v1=High+performance&series_name=dv8tqe_series&jumpid=in_R329_prodexp/hhoslp/psg/notebooks/High_performance/dv8tqe_series> I'm a quite experience Linux Systems Administrator, but I need something that will, at least basically, come up to speed easily so I can resume work (my former computer having suddenly died). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
I'm looking at an HP Pavillion dv8t which I'll use exclusively to run openSUSE.
Core i7 Nvidia GeForce GT 230M Intel Wireless-N Card
Does anyone have any experience with this machine, or the specifications [specifically the Nvidia card, which seems very new]?
I can't say anything about dv8t, but I've got a Pavilion dv9760ez right next to me - it's about two years old, and the graphics stopped working a few weeks ago. Today I took it apart, put it back together again, and voila! suddenly the graphics worked. I had forgotten a couple of tiny screws attaching the keyboard to the frame - seems to be a bad connection somewhere.
I'm a quite experience Linux Systems Administrator, but I need something that will, at least basically, come up to speed easily so I can resume work (my former computer having suddenly died).
I would buy a Lenovo. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (8.4°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 02/23/2010 09:33 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
I'm looking at an HP Pavillion dv8t which I'll use exclusively to run openSUSE.
Core i7 Nvidia GeForce GT 230M Intel Wireless-N Card
Does anyone have any experience with this machine, or the specifications [specifically the Nvidia card, which seems very ne I have an HP dv5t and my wife an HP xdh16 (x16t). My machine is about 1 1/2 yrs old and hers is about six months old. Mine has Intel graphics, hda intel sound chip and intel 5100 wifi adapter. Hers has intel core 2 duo processor, Nvidia GeForce GT 130M, hda intel audio, and intel 5300 wifi adapter. Both wifi adapters and sound cards work with the newer kernels and alsa driver. I had to get a newer kernel for my machine, my wife's worked out of the box (with the proprietary firmware). My intel graphics worked out of the box with OS 11.0 and her Nvidia card worked after I added the nvidia repo and downloaded the proprietary driver. Her microphone only worked after I did quite a bit of googling and found the settings for the particular audio chip. Her machine has a problem with suspend/hibernate which crashes x which I have not figured out yet, otherwise very happy with both machines. I have been buying only hp laptops (6 in total) since 1998 and I am fairly happy with the ease of installation and configuration with various flavors of Suse and the durability of the machines. It has gotten easier and easier to set up the hardware with each new version of Suse. !1.2 on my wife's machine was the easiest and quickest to date. Sounds like the machine you are looking at has a higher end/newer graphics card, I have no knowledge about it. Good luck with your purchase. Gustav
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On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 06:09 +0530, Gustav Degreef wrote:
On 02/23/2010 09:33 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
I'm looking at an HP Pavillion dv8t which I'll use exclusively to run openSUSE. Core i7 Nvidia GeForce GT 230M Intel Wireless-N Card Does anyone have any experience with this machine, or the specifications [specifically the Nvidia card, which seems very ne I have an HP dv5t and my wife an HP xdh16 (x16t)....
I ended up purchasing an HP DV7-3085DX due the fact that is was very close in specifications to the other model and a local retailer had one in stock. Installation of 64bopenSUSE 11.2 went very smoothly; everything so far: Video [including 3d], Sound, Wireless, Ethernet, USB, card reader, has "just worked". Installation was straight-forward, booted the first time, added the Nvidia repository using Yast's provided repo list, performed a "zypper up", and the next time I logged in I had hi-res 3d video running compiz. Very impressive; this was even more successful than my last install [a Toshiba P105-S6207 which also went very well, it only had some minor sound quality issues]. Kudos openSUSE, I'm back to work now. Specs: Intel Core i7 6GB DDR3 memory 17.3" LED-backlit high-definition plus widescreen display 500GB Serial ATA hard drive (7200 rpm) NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M (NB10P GE) graphics Intel WiFi Link 5100AGN (802.11a/b/g/n) awilliam@linux-yu4c:~> /sbin/lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DMI (rev 11) 00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 11) 00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor System Management Registers (rev 11) 00:08.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor Semaphore and Scratchpad Registers (rev 11) 00:08.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor System Control and Status Registers (rev 11) 00:08.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor Miscellaneous Registers (rev 11) 00:10.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link (rev 11) 00:10.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Routing and Protocol Registers (rev 11) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev 05) 00:1c.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 8 (rev 05) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0a28 (rev a2) 01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be2 (rev a1) 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03) 04:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host Controller 04:00.1 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller 04:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller 04:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller 04:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-Core Registers (rev 04) ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 04) ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 04) ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 04) ff:03.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller (rev 04) ff:03.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Target Address Decoder (rev 04) ff:03.4 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Test Registers (rev 04) ff:04.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Control Registers (rev 04) ff:04.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Address Registers (rev 04) ff:04.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Rank Registers (rev 04) ff:04.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Thermal Control Registers (rev 04) ff:05.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Control Registers (rev 04) ff:05.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Address Registers (rev 04) ff:05.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Rank Registers (rev 04) ff:05.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Thermal Control Registers (rev 04) -- openSUSE <http://www.opensuse.org/en/> Linux for human beings who need to get work done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Per Jessen