HP_Compaq_6910p
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Introduction
* Screen: 14.1", 1280x800 * Video: Intel GMA x3100 * Processor: Core2duo T7300, 2GHz * LAN: Intel 1Gps * WLAN: Intel Pro Wireless 4965 AG * Bluetooth (Broadcom) * Smardcard Reader (Ricoh) * Fingerprint Reader (AuthTec) * SIM-Card Reader for optional GPRS/UMTS modem under battery * Firewire * 56k Modem (Broadcom?) * TPM: Infineon * Touchpad: Synaptics Touchpad
It has some similarities with HP Compaq 6710b.
Description of the hardware
Output of lspci:
| Code: #lspci |
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) 00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965 MEI Controller (rev 0c) 00:03.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965 PT IDER Controller (rev 0c) 00:03.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965 KT Controller (rev 0c) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HBM (ICH8M-E) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) 02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b9) 02:06.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b9) 02:06.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 03) 02:06.3 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 20) 02:06.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev ff) 10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61) |
Output of lsusb:
| Code: #lsusb |
Bus 003 Device 009: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard Wireless (Bluetooth + WLAN) Interface [Integrated Module] Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 005 Device 008: ID 08ff:2580 AuthenTec, Inc. AES2501 Fingerprint Sensor Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub |
Processors:
| Code: #cat /proc/cpuinfo |
processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz stepping : 10 cpu MHz : 1995.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm ida bogomips : 3994.25 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz stepping : 10 cpu MHz : 1995.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm ida bogomips : 3990.08 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: |
Relevant output of sensors-detect:
| Code: sensors-detect |
# sensors-detect revision 4609 (2007-07-14 09:28:39 -0700)
Do you want to probe now? (YES/no): yes
Probing for PCI bus adapters...
Sorry, no known PCI bus adapters found.
Do you want to scan the ISA I/O ports? (YES/no):
Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78' at 0x290... No
Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78-J' at 0x290... No
Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79' at 0x290... No
Probing for `Winbond W83781D' at 0x290... No
Probing for `Winbond W83782D' at 0x290... No
Probing for `Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595'... No
Probing for `VIA VT82C686 Integrated Sensors'... No
Probing for `VIA VT8231 Integrated Sensors'... No
Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' at 0xca0... No
Probing for `IPMI BMC SMIC' at 0xca8... No
Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no):
Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f
Trying family `National Semiconductor'... No
Trying family `SMSC'... Yes
Found unknown chip with ID 0x3600
Probing for Super-I/O at 0x4e/0x4f
Trying family `National Semiconductor'... No
Trying family `SMSC'... Yes
Found unknown non-standard chip with ID 0x7a
Some CPUs or memory controllers may also contain embedded sensors.
Do you want to scan for them? (YES/no):
AMD K8 thermal sensors... No
Intel Core family thermal sensor... Success!
(driver `coretemp')
Intel AMB FB-DIMM thermal sensor... No
...
|
Note: Kernel-modules which you compile are automatically added when building the kernel or using update-modules. You do not need to add them manually as sensors-detect suggests.
Further Hardware Infos
ACPI Thermal Zones
Using Kernel 2.6.26:
* T0 -> CPU Fan speed (88 -> 100% (full speed, dangerous), 82 -> 80%, 68 -> 60%, 60 -> 40%, 50 -> 20%, 40 -> 0% (Off)) * T1 -> CPU Temprature * T2 does not exist * T3 -> Mainboard/Chipset Temprature * T4 -> ??? * T5 -> CPU Fan speed (100 (full), 90, 70, 50, 30, 0 (Off)), no idea what the difference to T1 is
Special Keycodes
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Configuration
make.conf
For CFLAGS, see the CPU section.
| File: /etc/make.conf |
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 vesa" |
LIRC_DEVICIES="" ?
CPU
See this HowTo.
Graphics
See this guide.
Note: This guide adds an 'Option "Monitor-LVDS" "Your Monitor"' to the device section. At least for me I had to remove this since XOrg did not detect any LVDS device.
intelfb and native framebuffer resolution
Note: XOrg does not depend on the BIOS mode settings and works out of the box with native resolution. This is only abotu the console (framebuffer, e.g. during boot).
The highest resolution you can set as a bootparameter is 'vga=0x318' (1024x768 @ 24bit) for the VESA mode. The intelfb supports modesetting with 'intelfb:mode=1280x800-32@60' but tries to set only the external CRT connector and fails, ignoring the internal LCD of the laptop.
Eventually the 915resolution patch helps: Intel GMA/Native resolution But I prefer a lean system. Another solution could be a special modenumber for the resolution (does anyone know if such exists?), an updated BIOS (current version for intel: F.13), or a fix for the intelfb kernel driver (tested with 2.6.26, not working).
Xorg lockups after updating to evdev
If programms using DRI lock up your X-server after upding to evdev input driver, unmerge xf86-input-mouse and xf86-input-keyboard. See Gentoo Bug #207106 for further informations.
Kernel Configuration
Works with gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r9.
| Linux Kernel Configuration: gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r9 |
Processor type and features --->
Subarchitecture Type (PC-compatible) --->
Processor family (Intel Core2 / newer Xeon) --->
[*] Symmetric multi-processing support
[*] Multi-core scheduler support
(2) Maximum number of CPUs (2-255)
Power management options --->
[*] Power Management support
ACPI Support (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support --->
<M> AC Adapter
<M> Battery
<M> Button
<M> Video
<M> Fan
<M> Processor
<M> Thermal Zone
Networking --->
Wireless --->
<M> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)
<M> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack
<M> IEEE 802.11i CCMP support
<M> IEEE 802.11i CCMP support
<M> IEEE 802.11i TKIP encryption
Device Drivers --->
<*> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support --->
<*> Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support
<*> Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support
<*> Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support
<*> Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers --->
<*> AHCI SATA support
[*] Network device support --->
[*] Ethernet (1000 Mbit) --->
<*> Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support
Sound --->
<*> Sound card support
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture --->
PCI devices --->
<M> Intel HD Audio
|
WLAN
See this guide.
Note: For people in europe: Wifi 'Channel 12' and 'Channel 13' do not work because the default setting for the frequencies is restricted to the US laws. The setting ieee80211_regdom=64 is supposed to fix this, but adding mac80211.ieee80211_regdom=64 to my kernel boot parameters did not change anything.
Known problems
Sound
The sound is stereo but both speakers are actually placed at the right side of the laptop, eventho it looks like there is also something on the left. Thus the output always sounds like only the right speaker is working, but actually both work. This is a hardware limitation and not a software problem.
Lid close
Warning: You may expect kernel panic on a lid close with 2.6.23-r9
I have found a workaround for this bug [1] Try
| Code: |
echo 1 > /proc/acpi/video/C098/DOS |
If it will help, add it at the beginning of /etc/conf.d/local.start file.
Note: With gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r3 there is no ACPI Video section in kernel configuration. It looks like this problem with lid close has been fixed, so there is no necessary to modify the file above.
Faulty ACPI slowly wearing out the HDD
The recent ACPI implementations for power saving in combination with some firmwares can cause very high 'load_cycle_count's that can slowly wear out the harddrive. Please inform yourself on how to check if your 6910p is also affected here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695 (Note: Not every HP Laptop has the problem)
Warning: Sample output from smartmontools:
| Code: smartctl -a /dev/sda |
smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Momentus 5400.3
Device Model: ST9120822AS
Serial Number: (removed)
Firmware Version: 3.BHD
User Capacity: 120,034,123,776 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 7
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Tue Jun 24 17:07:21 2008 Local time zone must be set--see zic m
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
See vendor-specific Attribute list for marginal Attributes.
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
was completed without error.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 25) The self-test routine was aborted by
the host.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 426) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x53) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 67) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x0001) SCT Status supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 114 100 006 Pre-fail Always - 78124088
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0002 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0033 100 100 020 Pre-fail Always - 912
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 073 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 25160653
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 888
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 034 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0033 100 100 020 Pre-fail Always - 761
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 063 044 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 37 (Lifetime Min/Max 26/37)
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 542
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 066 066 000 Old_age Always - 68804
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 037 056 000 Old_age Always - 37 (0 17 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 067 065 000 Old_age Always - 3483966
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 489 -
# 2 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 20 -
# 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3 -
# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 2 -
# 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 1 -
# 6 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 489 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. |
Suspicious Values: Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate, Load_Cycle_Count (~78 per hour, too much :-( ), Hardware_ECC_Recovered. Please note that this does NOT nessecarily indicate that the harddrive will fail soon. Someone with knowlege of S.m.a.r.t. and how to interpret these values form Segate needs to clarify this first.
Note: These are the values for my drive. The problem eventually may NOT affect every HP Notebook. So someone with a 6910p please verify if the problem occours also for his drive and if not, delete this note including the sample output, and if the problem occurs, just delete this note.
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