HP dv6424 Compatibility w/ Ubuntu Feisty

My hardware specifications can be found in my signature. Additionally I have some "accessory" devices or functions:
- Broadcom wireless card
- integrated microphone
- integrated webcam
- lightscribe capable optical drive
- the typical HP touch media buttons

I know that the Broadcom would require the ndis-wrapper package, but can anyone tell me whether or not I will have the functionality of the other devices when running Ubuntu 7.04?

 

I have a DV9420US. When I put GRUB in the MBR, I lost them media buttons. So I reloaded from backup DVD(s). Now the media buttons work. To boot Ubuntu, I make an ISO boot CDRW.

I'm fighting with the Broadcom card..... I need to work on the other things you listed too. Want to start them after I get the Broadcom working.

 

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Come on, man, you've been around the Linux forum for a while. I figured you would've gone with Intel like we usually suggest.

 

Well, Future Shop gave me $500 credit towards another laptop on display, but all the laptops with Intel CPUs were Toshibas of cheap contruction and Acers of poor construction and cooling. Besides, I'm not running any 64-bit software. That's when things really get ugly. :/ Thanks for the link anyway.

 

What are you talking about, 64bit software getting ugly? AMD was the first to have 64bit execution. And both Intel and AMD chips run 64bit software at pretty much the same speed as 32bit software, depending on the specific program. Intel's chips are just faster than AMD's in the current generation, period (except in servers-type apps, but that's a different conversation...) But anyway, your webcam might not work, but the rest should be decent, from my experience.

 

I wasn't questioning the ability of the CPU, just the availability and compatibility of drivers and games. Fact is, this HP laptop is not at all suitable for Linux; even getting everything to run in a 32-bit environment would take many hours, and time is something I have little of as I am starting a new university term in engineering> very difficult.

 

Oh come on, engineering isn't that bad. If I can find time to do it, you can.

But you could just dual boot. Use ndiswrapper to get the wireless working, and you should have a pretty usable system. If anything else doesn't work, you can take it slowly as it happens.

 

Well, I just wiped Vista off my disk and installed XP MCE, and when I'm done installing all my programs I'll pop in the trusted Ubuntu disk.

Btw, I am in UW co-op engineering, which is the best (and hardest) engineering course in Canada. It is particularly difficult.

 

Yeah, I'm doing a 5 year non-stop (plus 3 co-op rotation) combined masters program at my university. I get about a 3 week summer vacation and 3 week winter vacation, and go to school or work the rest of the time. It is also a particularly difficult schedule (notorious in the region), so I know what you're talking about. I was really just giving you a hard way to go.

 

I'm going to wave my social life good-bye.

 

Hi everyone, i would like to know if anyone could help me with installing linux onto my HP dv6424ca as i'm running into trouble, i am a bit experienced eith linux as i used to used mandrake before, i made a boot cd of ubuntu 64bit and 32 bit, mandriva 64bit and 32bit, suse 32bit and all have the same problem, when i'm booting up the cd it's fine then i choose to install and it tells me that it's loading the kernel after wards it says loading a couple of things in text format and ok but then it comes up to a point that it says it can't access a certain memory range, it continues ahead and when it was trying to detect some hardware it stays frozzen on the text screen, all the linux cd;s i've mentioned above have this problem, tried to run live cd's as well but same prob, there definately is a hardware detection issue somewhere and i think that it's something to do with a section of my ram memory that's reserved and linked for my nvidia geforce 7200 videocard as it uses shared system ram, does anyone have any ideas as i see that you guys were talking about the HP dv6424ca, if it helps when installing suse it comes up to a point to verify the cpus and says the model and info of the cpu then it said something which i'm trying to remember, i think it said id 1 id 2 mismatch but then it said corrected and stayed frozzen there, i also tried to install with the command line to disable apic and local apic, same thing, any input at all would help!

Thank You!

 

i posted the same thing 2 times cause i didn't see it disaply, sorry!