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Models covered
COMMERCIAL NAME: HP Pavilion dv6000

Sub-models (LIST OF MODEL REFERENCE NUMBER) options :
- Video card NVIDIA ?GeForce 8400M GS
- Screen size: 15.4" wide 1280x800 (16:10)
- Wireless card: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
- 160GiB Disk and 2x1GiB Ram size, optical device lightscribe DVD Multirecorder
- Bluetooth, built-in webcam, two microphones, no fingerprint reader.

Overall Status

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

Important Note

This page was written while attempting to install Debian GNU/Linux amd64 testing Jessie about commencing freeze period. Using only free software, and only the main repository (no contrib and no non-free). This page should probably be applicable to other Pavilion models in the dv6500 series.

Experiencing weird behaviour and crashes.

The h-node.org information to have into account. There is a page for a very similar laptop: https://h-node.org/notebooks/view/en/4/Pavilion-dv6530-el/1/1/Hewlett-Packard/undef/2007/undef/undef/undef/undef/undef

Configuration

Display

h-node.org has a positive report on a very similar video card to the one in this laptop. (https://h-node.org/videocards/view/en/3/NVIDIA-Corporation-G86--GeForce-8400M-GS---rev-a1-/1/1/undef/undef/undef/undef/undef/GeForce%208400) The only difference is that here we have the G86M not the G86.

• Sometimes there is a fatal crash with a line mentioning the Nouveau driver. You can get rid of this problem at the expense of installing non-free software.

This laptop has a Nvidia card with dedicated memory. Configuration instructions can be found in NvidiaGraphicsDrivers. After installation of the nvidia driver crashes occur only when returning from "suspend" state and it is no longer a fatal crash. The background image changes to a black and white pattern.

I think it is also important to remember that Jessie is not yet a stable release, so maybe everything changes as Jessie matures.

Audio

• The sound volume keeps turning up and down all the time. This is very annoying, but I have learned this is due to hardware failure and is very common is this series. Using GNOME this problem can be solved simply disabling the multimedia keys by going to System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Sound and Media.

Mouse

The touchpad works flawlessly, even supporting the multitouch function. I am able to use two fingers to scroll up and down.

Power Management

• Power management works well. When returning from sleep/suspend sometimes there is a fatal crash with a line mentioning the Nouveau driver. After installing and configuring the Nvidia driver this crash is no longer fatal, all it does is change the background image to a black and white pattern.

WiFi

The WiFi will not work with only free software. To make it work it is necessary to install the firmware (https://wiki.debian.org/iwlegacy).

Bluetooth

• Bluetooth works out of the box. With Jessie and GNOME Shell there is no need to install anything. All needed before use is to pair with a device. More on https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser.

Webcam

• The webcam works out of the box. And it records video with sound as well.

Modem

• (not covered yet)

System Summary

This laptop running only on free software loses a great deal of his abilities.

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port [8086:2a01] (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2834] (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2835] (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:283a] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:283f] (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2841] (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 [8086:2849] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2830] (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2831] (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2832] (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:2836] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801HM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2815] (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller [8086:2850] (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:2829] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:283e] (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G86M [GeForce 8400M GS] [10de:0427] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection [8086:4222] (rev 02)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 01)
09:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (rev 05)
09:09.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 22)
09:09.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 12)
09:09.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 12)

lsusb

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

root@HP:~# lsusb -v | grep -E '\<(Bus|iProduct|bDeviceClass|bDeviceProtocol)' 2>/dev/null 
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 064e:a101 Suyin Corp. Acer CrystalEye Webcam
  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
  iProduct                1 HP Webcam
      (Bus Powered)
  bDeviceClass          239 Miscellaneous Device
  bDeviceProtocol         1 Interface Association
  (Bus Powered)
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 EHCI Host Controller
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 UHCI Host Controller
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 UHCI Host Controller
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 UHCI Host Controller
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 EHCI Host Controller
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 UHCI Host Controller
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
  bDeviceClass            9 Hub
  bDeviceProtocol         0 Full speed (or root) hub
  iProduct                2 UHCI Host Controller

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

Resources

Attachments

Some configuration files and sample outputs.

Useful Links

https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/HP/PavilionDv6568se/etch

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