Comments on: Ubuntu 8.10 on an HP Pavilion dv7

By: genus_001

genus_001 — Tue, 03 May 2011 21:20:48 +0000

By: Philippe-Pierre

Philippe-Pierre — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:52:05 +0000

Well, it’s done — I’ve installed Debian Lenny on two different hp pavillion laptops, and actually you’ve been of good advice, genus_001, it went smoothly on both machines — as well as FreeBSD on one of them, along with Debian.

Thanks again.

Phil

By: Reports from the home counties « Motho ke motho ka botho

Reports from the home counties « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:19:55 +0000

[...] machine is a Celeron D, with 1Gb of memory, the Radeon X1300 and about 160Gb of storage space. The aforementioned dv7 has had both Ubuntu and Windows on it in comparable amounts, but the rumor mill says it will be [...]

By: Philippe-Pierre

Philippe-Pierre — Mon, 24 May 2010 07:04:22 +0000

Great!

Thank you very much, genus_001.

I really hope that the laptop I was talking about will allow booting from grub _as installed on the mbr_, which is what’s important for me.

We’ll see…

By: genus_001

genus_001 — Sun, 23 May 2010 16:51:01 +0000

I have a dv7-1245dx that has had gnusense and ubuntu installed on it, I’m writing this from it(on ubuntu)… grub installs and loads just fine…

By: Philippe-Pierre

Philippe-Pierre — Sun, 23 May 2010 08:24:12 +0000

Hi all,

I have a question for those who installed successfully whatever Linux distro on a pavilion dv7:

Could you install grub on the mbr?

From what I read, I thought that these hp pavilion are “tattooed”, and prevent linux or bsd from booting if grub or any boot loader is installed on the mbr…

I know that things may change depending on the exact model, but in a few days I’ll try to help a friend installing debian on a
HP PAVILION DV7-1299EF laptop.

So please to let me know, guys.

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:29:46 +0000

Everything works perfectly with Mint 8, which is a modified version of Ubuntu 9.10, except for the Wireless LED not changing color, the remote control keys are not assigned properly so only some work, and the “MediaSmart” button still registers a “v”.

There is supposed to be a way to re-assign the remote keys and the MediaSmart button, but I am not that familiar with Linux yet.
Found where to change the MediaSmart button, but can’t change it.
No idea how to change the remote key mapping to make it work with a specific media player. Any ideas?

The IR works well as does the wireless.
Using Mint 8 64-bit with Gnome, KM Player.

By: Mohamed MST

Mohamed MST — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:59:48 +0000

i like ubuntu very much
thank you man

By: alex

alex — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:01:00 +0000

Hi everybody,

Finally decided to go for Ubuntu on my HP dv7 works fine but as its been said,the wireless doens`t work.

Anyone got solution for the problem please,please post…

cheers,alex

By: Genus_001

Genus_001 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:04:39 +0000

As of the Karmic Koala, the video and sound are 1000% better on this laptop! The only issues I have are the IR port doesn’t work, although I think that it is supported, i just havent really looked into it since the update, and the “MediaSmart” button still registers a “v”.