Installing Ubuntu 11.04 - Natty Narwahl on HP Pavillion - dv5247eu

Last updated: 26.October.2010

Early State of Natty Narwahl - Updated from Ubuntu 10.10

Current Kernel: 2.6.36-1-generic

General Hardware Specifications of HP dv5247eu:

Hardware Components
Status under Linux
Notes
AMD Turion 64 Mobile Processor ML-34 - 1,8GHz Works No special procedure required during installation.
15.4 WXGA High Definition BrightView Widescreen (1280 x 800) Works No special procedure required during installation.
ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M IGP graphics Works No special procedure required during installation. 3D Acceleration works.
1536 MB DDR 333 MHz (1 x 1024 MB and 1 x 512 MB) Works No special procedure required during installation
HD: 120 GB 4200 rpm Works No special procedure required during installation
Modular Floppy Drive Unknown Not present. USB floppy drive should work but not tested
Integrated Network Card Works No special procedure required during installation
Internal 56k Modem Unknown Untried; could be unsupported
Super Multi DVD Writer (+/-R +/-RW) with Double Layer support Works Read/write with no problems. No special procedure required during installation
Internal Broadcom Wireless Networking Works Needs firmware for the card to work, after that nothing special is required.
6-cell Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery Works No special procedure required during installation
3D Sound Blaster Pro compatible sound 16 bit integrated Works No special procedure required
External Soundblaster MP3+ Works No special procedure required.
Multi-card Reader Does not Work Not working / fully tested
Hibernate/Suspend Works No special procedure required

This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.36-1-generic

Basic Installation of Ubuntu 10.10 upgraded to 11.04:
Setting up Ubuntu 11.04 over 10.10
Unresolved issues
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