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DebianOn is an effort to document how to install, configure and use Debian on some specific hardware. Therefore potential buyers would know if that hardware is supported and owners would know how get the best out of that hardware.

The purpose is not to duplicate the Debian Official Documentation, but to document how to install Debian on some specific hardware.

If you need help to get Debian running on your hardware, please have a look at our user support channels where you may find specific channels (mailing list, IRC channel) dedicated to certain types of hardware.

Models covered
HP Pavilion 15-n090sa
- GPU: AMD ATI Radeon HD 7600G
- Screen size : 15"
- Wireless card: Qualcomm Atheros [insert exact model here]
1 TB HDD, 8GM DDR3 RAM, has an optical drive [insert exact details here]

This guide was not written during a live install.

Overall Status

Core Components

[ATTACH]

Boot Standard Kernel:

{OK}

Legacy BIOS install

{OK}

UEFI install with GRUB on main hard disk

/!\

UEFI install with GRUB on separate storage device

[?]

LAN network card:

{OK} See note below about firmware-realtek

Detect CD/DVD:

[?]

Detect hard drives:

{OK}

Extra Features

CPU Frequency Scaling

[?]

Hibernation

/!\

Sleep / Suspend

{OK}

Display

X-(

Wayland

X-(

Xorg

{OK}

- OpenGL

[?]

- Resize-and-Rotate(randr)

[?]

Switch to External Screen

[?]

Mouse

{OK}

- Built-in (Trackpoint)

{OK}

- Built-in (Touchpad)

[-]

Modem

[?]

Wireless/Wifi

{OK}

Keyboard's Hotkeys

[?]

Bluetooth

/!\

Legend :
{OK} = OK ; {X} Unsupported(No Driver) ; /!\ = Error (Couldn't get it working); [?] Unknown, Not Test ; [-] Not-applicable
{i} = Configuration Required; X-( = Only works with a non-free driver and or firmware

Important Note

Dual boot: untested (worked on Stretch but on BIOS and must press F9 on boot to select "Notebook Hard Drive" after which the GRUB menu would appear.

Do not boot in UEFI mode! Grub will not install [insert exact error message here] However, it may work if you install grub to another disk but this is untested.

To boot into Legacy BIOS mode during install: - Do not use GPT for hard disk; instead, use the ms-dos table. (Default configuration if already running Windows 8).

- When the computer turns on, as soon as the screen backlight turns on, press the F10 key.

- On the boot options page, enable Legacy BIOS support

- [Insert exact procedure here]

- When booting from a live USB, press F9 and do NOT select the USB option with UEFI, but rather the other USB option.

- Continue installation as normal

During install, Wifi is confirmed to work. Ethernet is UNTESTED but assumed to work.

Configuration

Display

Without firmware-amd-graphics (nonfree), the display works, but you cannot change the screen brightness, and sometimes, if you switch virtual terminals with Ctrl+Alt+F[1, 2, 3 ... ], the colours become garbled. To fix this, install the firmware.

If using GDM (on Wayland) as the login manager (which is the default for GNOME), then GDM will not work. Installing firmware-linux-nonfree fixes this issue.

I have previously ran Buster with only Xfce and LightDM; for this configuration, the login will still work. However, the above issue about garbled colours and screen brightness still exists. For Xfce, firmware-amd-graphics is sufficient to fix the issue and the whole firmware-linux-nonfree is not needed.

Audio

Make sure you enable over-amplification in your desktop's settings to allow the speaker to be on full volume.

Mouse

No issues.

Power Management

Hibernation doesn't work properly. It will close the desktop session and turn the screen black but then stay like that. You then have to shut the laptop down from the power button. I would recommend shutting down or suspending instead.

Wifi

No issues.

Ethernet

On boot the kernel gives an error message about ethernet [to be inserted here], and an installation of firmware-realtek (nonfree) fixes this. However, without the firmware, ethernet still works.

Keyboad hotkeys

Screen brightness controls work after the installation of firmware-amd-graphics (nonfree) or firmware-linux-nonfree.

Volume controls work on Xfce after the Pulse Audio plugin (installed by default) is added to the panel.

Volume controls work on GNOME (maybe by default) but if not, then this command fixes the issue: 

gsettings reset org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys volume-up

System Summary

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Root Complex [1022:1410]
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Trinity [Radeon HD 7600G] [1002:9908]
00:01.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Trinity HDMI Audio Controller [1002:9902]
00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Root Port [1022:1414]
00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Root Port [1022:1415]
00:10.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB XHCI Controller [1022:7814] (rev 09)
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1022:7804]
00:12.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB OHCI Controller [1022:7807] (rev 11)
00:12.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller [1022:7808] (rev 11)
00:13.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB OHCI Controller [1022:7807] (rev 11)
00:13.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller [1022:7808] (rev 11)
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller [1022:780b] (rev 16)
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller [1022:780d] (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge [1022:780e] (rev 11)
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH PCI Bridge [1022:780f] (rev 40)
00:15.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Hudson PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0) [1022:43a0]
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 0 [1022:1400]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 1 [1022:1401]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 2 [1022:1402]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 3 [1022:1403]
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 4 [1022:1404]
00:18.5 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 5 [1022:1405]
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0032] (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 07)
05:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5229 PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:5229] (rev 01)

lsusb

lsusb -v | grep -E '\<(Bus|iProduct|bDeviceClass|bDeviceProtocol)' 2>/dev/null 

Couldn't open device, some information will be missing
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 05c8:0361 Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd (Foxlink) SunplusIT INC. HP Truevision HD Webcam
  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
  iProduct                2 
      (Bus Powered)
Couldn't open device, some information will be missing
Couldn't open device, some information will be missing
Couldn't open device, some information will be missing
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 
Couldn't open device, some information will be missing
Couldn't open device, some information will be missing
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 
Bus 005 Device 004: ID 04f3:0219 Elan Microelectronics Corp. 
  bDeviceClass            0 
  bDeviceProtocol         0 
  iProduct               14 
Couldn't open device, some information will be missing
Couldn't open device, some information will be missing
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         3 
  iProduct                2 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Single TT
  iProduct                2

USB Host controllers entries (without OHCI, UHCI, EHCI) are removed too.

Resources

Attachments

Some configuration files and sample outputs.

Credits

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