Ubuntu 8.04 & HP dv2500t - It Works out of the Box

Early this morning I loaded to the Whole HD, Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron.
My unit has the nVidia 8400M GS GPU. ALL the hardware workded except the finger print reader which I never used anyway. Webcam, Wireless the works. Configure Wine and install the 3 must have windows apps and I am a happy camper. So long Microsoft!

 

how can you install it, but not install the boat loader. I hate the ubuntu boot loader.

 

Good! That's very nice. My Vostro works similarly, although I have to install a wireless and nVidia driver...

 

my inspiron worked out of the box, Just updated Nvidia graphics and I was set.

 

I had only one problem on my dv9700t - that was with the NVIDIA driver installer. After I installed the driver through the restricted drivers manager, all the fonts became oversized. To fix this, I had to add the line ' Option "UseEdidDpi" "False" ' under ' Section "Device" '. Everything else worked fine. I think it might be a KDE issue, not an Ubuntu problem, though. It was an issue in Gutsy, and is still an issue in Hardy.

 

All I have to do is install the wireless driver and the ATI driver, very easy.

 

Im like OP, all my stuff works out of the box on a dv2500

even the BT and the Quicklaunch button lights.

Talk about simple and easy. thats how easy an OS should be!

Though my Vista loads faster than ubuntu..

 

Exactly what I'm thinking... My hardware all works too, except I have to install the nVidia driver, which is nothing... Except, FF3 on Linux is considerably slower than on Windows. I haven't installed Linux yet after my horrible crash on the boot loader, but I will soon, probably tomorrow.

 

I find Ubuntu runs faster and loads faster for me on my HP nx6325 that is my view, I feel that Vista is just waste of code and really there is no use for bloated OS like Vista. If you look around the web Vista is being compared to Windows ME.
A OS does not need to be bloated full of crap just simple streamlined that is all you need.

 

You may want to try out Opera 9.5 beta, it's amazingly fast.

 

I'm having problems with my graphics card on Ubuntu 8.04 (Geforce 8400M GS in a dv2500t). I've tried using both Envy and the restricted drivers manager to install the drivers, but when I restart, it says Ubuntu is running in low graphics mode.

 

I was having quite a few problems with Firefox 3 Beta 5, so I just installed Firefox 2. The package is called "firefox-2" IIRC.

 

did you launch launch nvidia-settings as root (sudo) and set the configuration, resolution, refresh, etc to it writes to the xconfig file?

 

Mine worked fine.... i had to download something to enable compiz though

 

How is your power management working with compiz loaded? I've been unsuccessful using suspend and hibernate with compiz running on my dv9000t.

 

i cant use hibernate either, when i try booting up after hibernating it just shows me a blank screen and nothing loads. It also gives me errors just before hibernate shuts down

btw what do we use to access the webcam?

 

Mine shows up in the Kopete configuration menu. I'm guessing Kopete just activates it when I want to use it, though I've never actually tried video chatting with it.

 

My webcam isn't working in aMSN, but I found this.

http://wiki.mediati.org/R5u870

I don't have the time to look into this at the moment, but if you do let me know how it turns out.

 

I installed something called Cheese, its very simple but fun webcam program. Check it out

 

In which order did you use them?
Anyway try this:

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common

add the following line:

Code:

DISABLED_MODULES="nv nvidiafb nvidia_new nvidia_legacy" 

Save, reboot, it should now work.

 

i installede the graphcis driver for my card (8800M) but it gives me a warning msg thing but wahtever.... i can't seem to get my wireless to detect any connections.... and bluetooth doesn't work with my mx5500 logitech keyboard/mouse :/

 

Are you getting power management without Compiz? I'm getting fully functional suspend and hibernate (even the wireless card works when I turn it back on).