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# HP Pavilion DV9757

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This laptop is the one easiest computer so far I have been installing linux on! Nearly everuthing works out of the box or by only making a few easily accomplished trix.

Specifications:

Processor Intel C2D T7500

Memory 4096 Mb (2x2048) DDR2

Hårddisk 500 Gb(2x250 Gb) 5400rpm

Graphic card nVidia 8600M GS

graphic memory 512/1791

graphic ports HDMI/VGA/S-video

Screen 17" Brightview 1440x900

Soundcard HD Audio

drive DVD+-RW DL LS

PC-express/ PC-mini Yes/Yes

Wlan-Network-Bluetooth 11g/10-100/Yes

USB/Firewire/Modem 4/Yes/Yes

Webcam

Fingerprint scanner

Card reader 5-in-1

1 x Microphone -in Jack

2 x Headphone -out Jack

1x Line in Jack

Pointer Touchpad

Preinstalled operative Vista Premium

Battery time 2,5 Hours

Weight 3,6 Kg

## Preinstallation configuration

The computer is preinstalled with 2 harddisks of which 1 is partitioned into 2 parts; 1 small part where the installation resides. If you - like me - wants to keep vista you can follow these easy steps:

1. Finish the installation that starts the first time you start the computer

2. Then run the command diskmgmt.msc in vista

Using that tool you can modify the partitionsize where vista is installed and make room for Archlinux.

After that you reboot with your Archlinux live-cd in the dvd-drive and install linux on the free part of disk 1 and on disk 2.

Install your boot-manager in MBR on first disk and open up for windows as one option

3. Continue to configure as usual.

## Video

     pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils

add to modules in /etc/rc.conf

## Xorg

Works without problem with nvidia driver

Vga-out works in twin view or - as I prefer - xinerama using 2 x-servers. This could be configured with the nvidia-tool in kde.

TV-out works with nvidia setting

## Audio

Works out of the box

## Wifi

     pacman -S ipw3945

add to modules in /etc/rc.conf

## Webcam

See Webcam Setup.

## Bluetooth

    pacman -S bluez-libs bluez-utils

## Card Reader

not tested yet. Detected in dmesg

## Pointer

Works out of the box. Works better with synaptics though

     pacman -S synaptics

add module synaptics to xorg.conf

## Remote controle

See LIRC.

## Finger print reader

See fprint.

## Quick play function keys

All are detected by dmesg and can be configured!

## Function keys for sound

Works out of the box

Category:

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