Jaunty on HP Probook 4510s

Posted by Herman on 6 July, 2009 Leave a comment (12) Go to comments

Walter and I got a new laptop from the office. Unfortunately, even though Ubuntu “Jaunty Jackalope” is really great, there are some small issues.

The screen detection doesn’t work properly sometimes and so it gives you a messed up resolution regularly (800×600). Although a login and logout fixes it, it is annoying.

Fixable with replacing you xorg.conf with the following configuration:

Section “Device”
Identifier “Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)”
Driver “intel”
Option “monitor-LVDS” “LCD-1366×768″
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “LCD-1366×768″
Option “Position” “0 0″
Modeline “1366×768″ 69.30 1366 1382 1416 1466 768 770 776 788 -hsync -vsync
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Device “Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)”
#Monitor “LCD-1366×768″
EndSection

Another problem is the sound just doesn’t work. But this can be fixed with the following addition to the modprobe configuration:

echo ‘options snd-hda-intel model=laptop’ >> /etc/modprobe.d/custom.conf

All credits for providing the solutions go to Walter and check his homepage for a little more information.

Overall I am very content about the laptop, not expensive and after these fixes it works splendid!

update: there are several models of the HP Probook 4510s and some even seem to have different chipsets. The model I bought has HP product code NA920EA.

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12 Comments.

  1. Rubi 13 July, 2009 at 8:39

    Hi!

    I’ve bought this laptop one month ago and I’m very happy with Kubuntu inside. I had the same problem with sound but not it’s all right.

    I would like to know if you could answer a question I have in mind for a week… Do the Intel Wifi 5100 chipset works?

    I think is a driver problem in Jackalope… but I would like to know if it happened to you, too…

    Thank you ;)

  2. Rubi 13 July, 2009 at 8:42

    Hi!

    I’ve bought this laptop one month ago and I’m very happy with Kubuntu inside. I had the same problem with sound but it’s working now.

    I would like to know if you could answer a question I have had in mind for a week… Do the Intel Wifi 5100 chipset works?

    I think is a driver problem in Jackalope… but I would like to know if it happened to you too…

    Thank you ;)

    P.S.: Sorry for the prior comment and for my poor english

  3. Herman 13 July, 2009 at 16:28

    Wireless works perfectly here. Out of the box.

    At least on the public wifi networks I passed by. You didn’t turn it off by accident with the button on the front left? ;-)

  4. Rubi 13 July, 2009 at 20:38

    hehehe… no… it must be since I’ve changed from network-manager to wicd…

    I’ll try to reinstall the package.

    Thanks a lot… ;)

    Now I know it is not a driver problem.

  5. Rubi 15 July, 2009 at 8:11

    Hehehe… No, the button wasn’t the problem.. it’s working now.

    Lesson 1: After wicd install, reboot.

    Best regards,

    Rubi.

  6. tsvetan 15 July, 2009 at 14:49

    Hi,

    I’ve bought a probook 4510s a month ago.
    Everything worked out of the box (except the external speakers) and up till now I have only two issues:

    1. My one is with an ATI card and sometimes hibernate and suspend halt the system.
    2. File copying under 64bit Jaunty was too slow (around 5Mb/s). This forced me to install the 32bit version.

    It will be interesting to know if you have noticed the same slow file copying issue. I’m curios if the cause is the ATI driver (because the only difference seems to be the graphics card) or you don’t experience such problems.

    10x
    Best Regards,
    Tsvetan

  7. Herman 15 July, 2009 at 21:57

    Tsvetan:

    Post your `lspci` output then we can compare. I will paste mine later this week, i dont have it with me at the moment.

  8. Rubi 16 July, 2009 at 11:24

    Tsvetan:

    Hibernate and suspend usually hangs the machine. There is a thread in ubuntuforums:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7514331

    (Some people think Compiz is involved in the error).

    I’ll try the file copy, I’ve installed Kubuntu 9.04 64 bits and I’ve not noticed that yet.

    My 4510s is NX607EA model number in HP.

    Bye…

  9. tsvetan 16 July, 2009 at 20:42

    @Rubi:

    Thank you. My one is NX417EA.

    @Herman

    Here’s the output of lspci:

    00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
    00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
    00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
    00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
    00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
    00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
    00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
    00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
    00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
    00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
    00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
    00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
    00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
    00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
    00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
    00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
    00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
    00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
    00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M92 LP [Mobility Radeon HD 4300 Series]
    01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc R700 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4000 Series]
    03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
    86:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 436c (rev 10)

    Best Regards,
    Tsvetan

  10. Herman 17 July, 2009 at 14:24

    My HP Probook has NA920EA as HP product code.

  11. Herman 17 July, 2009 at 14:26

    The lspci output on my NA920EA:

    00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
    00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
    00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
    00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
    00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
    00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
    00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
    00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
    00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
    00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
    00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
    00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
    00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
    00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
    00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
    00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
    00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
    00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
    00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
    02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
    85:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 436c (rev 10)

  12. Rubi 17 July, 2009 at 15:19

    lspci NX607EA : (I was feeling discriminated)

    00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
    00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
    00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
    00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
    00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
    00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
    00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
    00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
    00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
    00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
    00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
    00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
    00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
    00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
    00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
    00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
    00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
    00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
    00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M92 LP [Mobility Radeon HD 4300 Series]
    01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc R700 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4000 Series]
    03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
    86:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 436c (rev 10)

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