HP nc6120

[James Gray]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 05:59, Rainer Gutkas wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> As I think abaout a while to do a shift in my hardware, because I now
> own my beloved Powerbook for 6 years and it gets for me a bit slow and
> I'm still not happy with my notebook not supporting flash and sun's java
> sdk.
> I thought I ask if its true that Ubuntu fully supports the HP nc6120 as
> I read in the Ubuntu-User-Manual from Marcus Fischer.

I have an nc6230 which is a little different: Centrion 1.86GHz thing, Ati 
X300 graphics (with dedicated 64MB VRAM), built-in bluetooth, IR, USB2, 
Intel Pro Wireless2200BG.

Despite documentation out of Europe saying everything works out of the box 
with Ubuntu (Hoary), I've had some minor problems:

1. Suspend (to disk & ram), or sleep modes results in the graphics card
   getting all screwed up.  The system will resume, but with a blank screen. 
   This is a problem with the Ati card, and known by HP and Ati.  Tried both
   the binary and xorg driver - no joy.  Works fine in Windows, so it's a
   driver issue that will eventually get fixed (I hope!).

2. Bluetooth - haven't got it working.  I can load the kernel modules and
   start the daemons, but it wont see anything - specifically my Motorola
   V600.  Could be a problem between the keyboard and chair - ie, it smells
   like a pure configuration problem, the hardware is supported.

3. Modem - never got it to work.  It's one of these evil Winmodems and the
   latest drivers wont compile against a standard Ubuntu kernel.  So unless
   I roll-my-own vanilla kernel, the modem will stay dormant.

4. IR port - not tested, so no idea if it works or not.

Other than those 3 minor problems (can't vouch for IR, so don't consider 
that a problem).  *Everything* else works!
 
- I've got the TV (S-Video) out working, the external VGA in clone and
  "xinerama" modes working (with the Ati binary driver - fglrx)

- 3D acceleration makes for good frame-rates in Q3 and other 3D games.

- Sound worked out of the box (although I had to wait for Breezy until it
  would detect that headphones were plugged in and mute the speakers...
  little did I know I was subjecting everyone on the train to a Q3
  frag-fest :P)

- CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive works.

- All USB2 ports work at USB2 speed.

- Wifi worked out of the box, although the Breezy kernel update included the
  newer driver which makes WPA possible and supports the FBL (funky blue
  LED) :)

- Volume up/down and mute buttons work (after adding a few
  "xmodmap -e 'keycode ??? = FOO'" type statements to ~/.xinitrc

The nc6230 are "reasonably" cheap too - but I don't know what your budget 
is.  My boss skimped a bit and ordered the 1024x768 screen but you can 
source it with higher resolutions.

HTH,

James
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