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methuselah

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Registered: 2007-10-02

Posts: 570

My new install on a HP Pavilion dv9920us... just a few problems

So I recently got a new HP Pavilion dv9920us notebook, and installed the new Arch x86_64 overlord using the ftp CD (so fast). The Install worked perfectly, I used the new nvidia driver and the testing packages with no major problems.

These are my HP stats... 4GBs DDR2, 2.00 GHz AMD Turion X2 TL-60 Dual-Core Mobile Processor, 512 KB + 512 KB L2 Cache, NVIDIA GeForce 7150M...more info here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docu … 28&lang=en

What I need to get working:

1.) suspend/hibernate
2.) integrated microphone (integrated webcam picture works)
3.) playback of webcam video (works, but in a fast-forward playback with no sound)
4.) nvidia black screen problem with tty1-6

Problem #1) Suspend and Hibernate.

After my install, I followed these 4 guides for my laptop:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cpufrequtils
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pm-utils
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CPU … cy_Scaling
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … aptop-Mode

Following the Pm-Utils wiki guide, I edited my sudoers file with this added on:

username  ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pm-hibernate
username  ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pm-suspend

... Then I was able to run "sudo pm-suspend" and "sudo pm-hibernate" and suspend/hibernate and resume properly.

My only problem was that my Gnome Power Management (the battery plug-in on the panel) would not suspend or hibernate without making this loud beeping noise with an error notice and a link to this hal quirks page: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsien … index.html

I had the same problems from the Gnome System-->--Shut Down-->--Suspend and Hibernate buttons, and the screensaver settings.

Well, no luck with my laptop being on the quirks list. So then I read through everything on that hal site, and I felt that the site didn't give enough info for me, as a newbie, to know how to modify the quirks on my own. There wasn't a well written guide like the Arch wiki's.

Then I upgraded to the new kernel26 2.6.26-2 hoping it might work better with the new features, and now "sudo pm-suspend" and "sudo pm-hibernate" don't work anymore. They both just go to a blank black screen that can not be resumed.

I've thought about compiling the kernel26-ice in AUR but I wasn't too sure if I wanted to do that. I've had bad luck with kernel compilation in the past.

Problem #2 and #3) My laptop webcam/microphone. Sort-of working with the new 2.6.26-2....

When I say my webcam sort of works, what I mean is that with the Gnome webcam app "Cheese"... I can see my face, and the LED light goes on. The picture is good, and the photo works, but when I try to record with the webcam video, it plays back in fast-forward and with no volume. I haven't tried it in a webcam chat yet... so I'm not sure of how the microphone volume works with streaming video. The video playback problem could just be the app "Cheese"? I've been reading through the forums and google to find a better webcam app other than "Cheese" and haven't seen any that looked like they were better than Gnome's, any suggestions?

The "Cheese" app also has a few buggy issues to it that I'm going to see it they have been filed, like: the drop down menus not showing, and the streaming picture not restarting after recording a video.

Problem #4) Nvidia and the ttys.

For some reason my virtual consoles tty1-tty6 don't show any font... it's just a blank black screen. They still work, I can log in and run commands, I just can't see what I'm typing or what is printed out on the console. I've also seen that other nvidia users have this problem too... is their a fix yet?

Besides those 4 problems, and a wifi card that's not supported (bcm4322 AG pre-n)... everything else seems to work good. I even have some of my multimedia keys working with System-->--Preferences-->--Keyboard Shortcuts.

Thanks for any help and info,
-c.

metal

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From: Russia,Moscow

Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 45

Re: My new install on a HP Pavilion dv9920us... just a few problems

1) See errors in logs.
2) Check mixer, may be your microphone turn off.
4) Wait fix from nvidia or switch to free driver, but you lose 3D. May be can help something like vga=normal in kernel boot parameters.

methuselah

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Registered: 2007-10-02

Posts: 570

Re: My new install on a HP Pavilion dv9920us... just a few problems

Thanks for trying to help.

For problem #1.) My error message is this:

Class suspend failed for gart0

... and this:

PM: Some devices failed to power down, aborting hibernation

I made my user account a member of the group "power", and have also compiled the newer pm-utils 1.1.2.4-1 and installed it, and have add this quirks line to my /usr/lib/hal/scripts/hal-system-power-suspend:

QUIRKS="--quirk-vbe-post --quirk-vbemode-restore --quirk-vbestate-restore"

... and I still get that error.

When I researched the "Class suspend failed for gart0" error on google, I found a few pages discussing a patch for fixing that problem on the 2.6.26-rc4, but I've seen no patch to download, and it sounded as if the patch hadn't fully fixed the problem.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/8/181
http://zefir.890m.com/kernel-testing/
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-List … 12125.html
http://archives.free.net.ph/message/200 … c4.pl.html

... I'm still new to Linux (2 years), and I think I'll wait until someone else fixes this in a kernel update (since 2.6.26-2 is still in testing), or I'll compile kernel2.6.26-1-ice and just use tuxonice.

For problem #2. and #3.) When I use the volume setting of 0: HDA Nvidia (Alsa mixer), the channels for Master, PCM, Docking Mic, External Mic, and Internal Mic are all un-mutted and at about 75% volume... ICE958 and IEC958 Default PCM are both checked in Switches.

When I use the setting of 1: Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa) (OSS Mixer) Volume and Digital-1, they are both un-muted at 80% Volume and 100% Digital-1.

I still get no volume on the playback of the webcam's recorded video, and it still only plays in fast-forward. I checked my webcam model (Bus 004 Device 002: ID 064e:a110 Suyin Corp webcam), and it is fully supported by the linux-uvc page: http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/

... again, I don't really use the webcam/microphone, so it's not really important... but I did want to start using the webcam/microphone as a free telephone, so any fix would be cool.

As for problem #4.) I will wait for the nvidia driver to be fixed, I was hoping there was already a way to fix the tty screens to show the white text of the console instead of having an all "black-blank" virtual console screen (that still actually works... just blindly).

Any more help on these subjects would be cool, thanks.
-c.

metal

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From: Russia,Moscow

Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 45

Re: My new install on a HP Pavilion dv9920us... just a few problems

1) I'd try 2.6.27-rc1 from kernel.org. If it has this error then good thing is bug report to developers. Usually, they react very fast.
2) Try execute cheese from terminal, may be write something interesting.  HDA audio is very tricky, there are different options for detecting place of audio devices. Something like 'model=laptop position_fix=1'.
4) They fix it in each release, in last too

methuselah

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Registered: 2007-10-02

Posts: 570

Re: My new install on a HP Pavilion dv9920us... just a few problems

Thanks again, if this suspend issue doesn't get fixed in the next few updates, I'll just compile either the kernel26-ice or the kernel26-zenmm... both of them have the tuxonice patches which I have wanted to try.

I tried running cheese while in terminal and it didn't give me any helpful info. Maybe someone that has the same webcam will post some info on how to fix my sound and recording problems.

I really like my nvidia 7150m, this is my only complaint with it... I barely use the virtual consoles after an install... so I guess it's not that major of problem.

methuselah

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Registered: 2007-10-02

Posts: 570

Re: My new install on a HP Pavilion dv9920us... just a few problems

Thanks again, if this suspend issue doesn't get fixed in the next few updates, I'll just compile either the kernel26-ice or the kernel26-zenmm... both of them have the tuxonice patches which I have wanted to try.

I tried running cheese while in terminal and it didn't give me any helpful info. Maybe someone that has the same webcam will post some info on how to fix my sound and recording problems.

I really like my nvidia 7150m, this is my only complaint with it... I barely use the virtual consoles after an install... so I guess it's not that major of problem.

Using the new nvidia beta 177.13 and my console problem is fixed. Still working on the other things.

DarkJoker

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Registered: 2008-08-06

Posts: 16

Re: My new install on a HP Pavilion dv9920us... just a few problems

sorry for the off topic:

methuselah the quickplay buttons work in archlinux??

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methuselah

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Registered: 2007-10-02

Posts: 570

Re: My new install on a HP Pavilion dv9920us... just a few problems

sorry for the off topic:

methuselah the quickplay buttons work in archlinux??

cumps

Yes and No, the volume slider, mute, stop, play and pause work "out the box" with the Gnome Keyboard Shortcuts located in the System-->--Preferences-->--Keyboard Shortcuts of the Gnome Menu.

The dvd, quickstart button, fastforward and rewind buttons are recognized with the Gnome keyboard Shortcuts, but they don't work with Linux, so I hill have to link them:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hotkeys
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acpi_hotkeys