Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I found this article quite helpful while installing Suse on my own zt3000 notebook. I have almost everything working! It is quite exciting. I like the rest of your site as well. Take care, and thanks!
Just a comment for everyone reading this. if you buy a ZT3xxx series machine and have the GSA-4040N cdrom drive (which according to HP is a + drive only), you can install the GWA-4040N (as I did on my zt3350) and turn it into a +/- RW drive. I dont have any issues reading or burning + or - media too :)
Umm about the above comment, think I forgot to mention that it was the firmware that I'd updated to make the change. the version was B107 incase you wanted to know.
Hi, The page is wonderful with explanations. Can you post some info on HOWTO suspend2RAM? Like did you use X or in vt? Many thanks. (I read some of your posts in x1000forums.com)
Hi Once again,
Your partiton table shows :
hda1 100M ext3 (/boot)
hda2 15G NTFS (C:)
hda3 15G ext3 (/)
hda4 30G extended
hda5 512M Linux Swap
hda6 30G vfat (D:, /mnt/shared)
-----------------------------------------
Total > 90GB
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Whereas your notebook is probably 60GB? Or am I missing something?
My power switch sometimes does not work properly when hibernate and turn back on without pressing hard and holding down for sometimes 10 or more seconds ?
Any thoughts ?
Sorry, you don't include any details on what OS. Even still, I haven't done anything with hibernation in Windows or Linux, so I doubt I can help you much.
In fact, I do! I'm using a 20.1" Widescreen LCD right now (1680x1050) in addition to my LCD. There were some quirks with this, so I'll try to get a new section up about this along with links to some xorg.conf files.
I haven't tried, but I've heard it might be possible. I'll probably be trying soon as I will be getting a new digital camera soon that takes SD cards and I'll probably want to be able to read them. I'll update when/if I get it working.
Just to update, I found that the SD card reader works in FC5 (and probably older) by modprobing two modules.
modprobe wbsd; modprobe mmc-block; After that, inserting an SD card should just work. I'd like to figure out how to get this loaded on boot, so I'll update the article once I know.
i found this text a little bit helpfull. but i have to admit, that everything works in ubuntu 6.06. Wifi, cad reader, ati hardware acceleration... realy etherything :)
To be honest, everything works in FC5 now as well. You have the advantage of trying Linux out on the laptop 4 years later than I did when much of this hardware support was in its infancy. I currently have the Wireless working w/ the bcm43xx driver, the SD card reader working with the wbsd driver, and I've used ATI fglrx drivers on other platforms with no problems - I just haven't tried them out here yet (package available from livna RPM repository).
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Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I found this article quite helpful while installing Suse on my own zt3000 notebook. I have almost everything working! It is quite exciting. I like the rest of your site as well. Take care, and thanks!
I will include a link to your report into the TuxMobil.org Linux laptop and notebook survey.
Hi there I wanted to know if you have gotten the fan to work on your laptop when you're in linux
Just a comment for everyone reading this. if you buy a ZT3xxx series machine and have the GSA-4040N cdrom drive (which according to HP is a + drive only), you can install the GWA-4040N (as I did on my zt3350) and turn it into a +/- RW drive. I dont have any issues reading or burning + or - media too :)
enjoy.
div-x@rogers.com
Umm about the above comment, think I forgot to mention that it was the firmware that I'd updated to make the change. the version was B107 incase you wanted to know.
sorry for the mess-up.
Hi, The page is wonderful with explanations. Can you post some info on HOWTO suspend2RAM? Like did you use X or in vt? Many thanks. (I read some of your posts in x1000forums.com)
Many thanks for the suspend script
Hi Once again,
Your partiton table shows :
hda1 100M ext3 (/boot)
hda2 15G NTFS (C:)
hda3 15G ext3 (/)
hda4 30G extended
hda5 512M Linux Swap
hda6 30G vfat (D:, /mnt/shared)
-----------------------------------------
Total > 90GB
----------------------------------
Whereas your notebook is probably 60GB? Or am I missing something?
The extended partition contains the last two partitions. It is necessary as you can only have 4 primary paritions.
My power switch sometimes does not work properly when hibernate and turn back on without pressing hard and holding down for sometimes 10 or more seconds ?
Any thoughts ?
Sorry, you don't include any details on what OS. Even still, I haven't done anything with hibernation in Windows or Linux, so I doubt I can help you much.
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A great site where one can enjoy the thought of a great mind long departed. Cheers for the good work!
can you get WPA (WPA2) to work with wireless card?
Yes, I have WPA working fine using wpa_supplicant.
Has anyone tried to get the 2nd monitor output to work as it does in Windows as a secondary monitor?
John
Excellent site... thank you for the insite... I am using Ubuntu and I use powerpoint/Impress BIGTIME?
In fact, I do! I'm using a 20.1" Widescreen LCD right now (1680x1050) in addition to my LCD. There were some quirks with this, so I'll try to get a new section up about this along with links to some xorg.conf files.
thnx! I appreciate the help BIGTIME!
Anyone got the SD Memory card reader to work (I'm using Fedora Core 4)..Thx!
I haven't tried, but I've heard it might be possible. I'll probably be trying soon as I will be getting a new digital camera soon that takes SD cards and I'll probably want to be able to read them. I'll update when/if I get it working.
Hallo you! Great web site. I found exactly the information I was looking for. I will recommend your page to all my
friends!
Just to update, I found that the SD card reader works in FC5 (and probably older) by modprobing two modules.
modprobe wbsd; modprobe mmc-block; After that, inserting an SD card should just work. I'd like to figure out how to get this loaded on boot, so I'll update the article once I know.
i found this text a little bit helpfull. but i have to admit, that everything works in ubuntu 6.06. Wifi, cad reader, ati hardware acceleration... realy etherything :)
To be honest, everything works in FC5 now as well. You have the advantage of trying Linux out on the laptop 4 years later than I did when much of this hardware support was in its infancy. I currently have the Wireless working w/ the bcm43xx driver, the SD card reader working with the wbsd driver, and I've used ATI fglrx drivers on other platforms with no problems - I just haven't tried them out here yet (package available from livna RPM repository).
Just a small info for laptop. In kernel 2.6.18 some bugs have been thrashed out so that suspend2RAM works flawless.
see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6075
for more details.
I have a line on my monitor on my zt3000....Please help me remove it
Great touchpad configuration, very usefull.