Installing Fedora Core 6 on HP dv9000z

Last updated: 17 December 2006

General Hardware Specifications of dv9013cl:

This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.19.2

NOTE: This version of the kernel seems to fix many of the ACPI problems being reported on other pages.

Basic Installation of Fedora Core 6:

• Why to use FC6: because it's available!

• Obtaining FC6: save yourself some heartache, download the DVD version.

• Installing is relatively painless

• Used init level 3 until I started figuring things out.

Setting up additional features for FC6

• Set up yum and get updated immediately

• Any other additional features you can think of

Unresolved issues

• Much of the internal chip information is hidden by the nVidia chipset. Will recompile the kernel with I2O support to see if the kernel can pick up any additional information.

• ACPI isn't handled properly

• Computer locks at random. Workaround is to add acpi=off to the boot params

• powernow-k8 MP systems not supported by PSB BIOS structure

Configuration Files

Add Livna and FreshRPMS repo files to yum.repo.d (links below)

More Specific Information:

Output of lspci:

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)

00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)

00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)

00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)

00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)

00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)

00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)

00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)

00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)

00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)

00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)

00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)

00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)

00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)

00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3)

00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)

00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)

00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1)

00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev f1)

00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)

00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)

00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 UART (rev 01)

07:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832

07:05.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)

07:05.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)

07:05.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)

BIOS information reported by dmidecode:

# dmidecode 2.7

07:05.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)

SMBIOS 2.33 present.

20 structures occupying 690 bytes.

Table at 0x000F2000.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes.

BIOS Information

Vendor: Hewlett-Packard

Version: F.1A

Release Date: 10/25/2006

Address: 0xE7220

Runtime Size: 101856 bytes

ROM Size: 1024 kB

Characteristics:

ISA is supported

PCI is supported

PNP is supported

BIOS is upgradeable

BIOS shadowing is allowed

ESCD support is available

Boot from CD is supported

Selectable boot is supported

Print screen service is supported (int 5h)

8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)

Serial services are supported (int 14h)

Printer services are supported (int 17h)

ACPI is supported

USB legacy is supported

AGP is supported

Smart battery is supported

BIOS boot specification is supported

CPU information reported by dmidecode:

Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 35 bytes.

Processor Information

Socket Designation: Socket S1

Type: Central Processor

Family: Opteron

Manufacturer: AMD

ID: 82 0F 04 00 FF FB 8B 17

Signature: Extended Family 0, Model 8, Stepping 2

Flags:

FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)

VME (Virtual mode extension)

DE (Debugging extension)

PSE (Page size extension)

TSC (Time stamp counter)

MSR (Model specific registers)

PAE (Physical address extension)

MCE (Machine check exception)

CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported)

APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported)

SEP (Fast system call)

MTRR (Memory type range registers)

PGE (Page global enable)

MCA (Machine check architecture)

CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported)

PAT (Page attribute table)

PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension)

CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported)

MMX (MMX technology supported)

FXSR (Fast floating-point save and restore)

SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions)

SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2)

HTT (Hyper-threading technology)

Version: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile TL

Voltage: 1.6 V

External Clock: 200 MHz

Max Speed: 1600 MHz

Current Speed: 1600 MHz

Status: Populated, Enabled

Upgrade: None

L1 Cache Handle: 0x0005

L2 Cache Handle: 0x0006

L3 Cache Handle: Not Provided

Serial Number: Not Specified

Asset Tag: Not Specified

Part Number: Not Specified

Troubling information reported by dmidecode:

Handle 0x0012, DMI type 32, 20 bytes.

System Boot Information

Status: <OUT OF SPEC>

• anything else you feel is relevant or may be useful

Contact Information:

• duane _ berry @ excite.com

Contributors:

• your_name@goes.here

Links:

• Return to Linux on Laptops

• The official nVidia unix support page

• FWIW nVidia provides ID codesfor it's chipsets

• Additional nVidia support can be found at: Livna

• Download the latest kernel from:The Linux Kernel Archives

• Manufacturer info is at: HP

• FreshRPMS

Plus other useful things I may have forgotten will be added when I remember.

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