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# HP Compaq 6510b

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The HP 6510b is a compact yet powerful laptop with a high-resolution screen (if you pick the WXGA+ version). It has been labeled "Novel SuSE Enterprise certified" by HP, which should mean Linux runs fine on it.

## Hardware specifications

- Intel Core 2 Duo T7100 / T7300
- 2 GB of DDR2 533 Mhz SO-DIMM
- 14.1" 1280x800 WXGA / 1440x900 WXGA+ TFT
- Intel GMA965GM chipset with X3100 onboard GPU
- IPW3945 a/b/g wireless LAN miniPCI with wireless hardware switch
- Broadcom Tigon Gigabit LAN adapter
- Infineon TPM
- AuthenTec AES2501 fingerprint reader
- built-in Bluetooth
- cardreader (supporting SD, MemoryStick, ea.)
- 4x USB 2.0
- 1x FireWire 400 4-pin connector

## Setup

### CPU Frequency Scaling

See the main CPU frequency scaling article.

### X3100 onboard GPU

Feature-wise this is an awesome GPU. Opensource drivers that support 3D out of the box. However, it has a problem many of the Intel GPUs have: it will stick to VESA resolutions in the framebuffer. Since the only fitting resolution is 1024x768, that is what you'll when using a framebuffer (on boot, and in a command line environment). You can check what modes the GPU supports like this:

    [stijn@lysithea ~]$ cat /sys/class/graphics/fb0/modes
    U:1024x768p-75

As you can see this is the only resolution. According to the uvesafb FAQ, if that's all you get, not even uvesafb can fix it up for you. For earlier chipsets (865 and 915 for example) tools like `855resolution` and `915resolution` are available, but the latter does not support the Intel G965M yet.

There are modified PKGBUILDs and patches to fix that, but the URLs provided on this page before do not exist anymore. They allow you to set the 1440x900 resolution, but one needs to dig far deeper into the system to get the system booting in that resolution, it seems.

### IPW3945 ABG wireless LAN

See Wireless network configuration#iwlegacy.

The radio switch is hardware (it sits on the tactile strip), which is pretty convenient. Just touch it and the radio gets enabled. The switch could also be pretty shitty at times, as it will disable radio if you scrape away some dust from the tactile strip.

### Broadcom NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit LAN

No setup required, it just needs the tg3 module.

### Suspension and hibernation

See Suspend and hibernate.

### FireWire

FireWire is supported out of the box, however, for FireWire HD support, you might need to load the sbp2 module (that is, if you are using the common stack, since a new one is in the works and already present in the kernel). You have the common stack if you run stock Arch kernels.

### AuthenTec AES2501 fingerprint reader

See fprint.

### Tactile strip

This laptop sports a fancy tactile strip, providing some extra buttons as well as volume control (toggling mute and changing volume). I have not tried yet to get hal working for my multimedia keys yet, the present solution works fine. Enter keytouch: The HP NC6320 settings (pre-supplied by keytouch) seem to work just fine for muting & adjusting the volume. The 'Help' key (left to the radio switch) fires up your DE's help center if everything goes well, the button to the right is recognised too (you have to configure it though ;-)). As a fancy plus, you'll get a nice OSD when you mute/unmute or change volume.

### lspci output

    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)
    00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contoller #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.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (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 82801HEM (ICH8M) 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)
    02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b6)
    02:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 02)
    10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
    18:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)

### lsusb output

    Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
    Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
    Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
    Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
    Bus 003 Device 003: ID 08ff:2580 AuthenTec, Inc.
    Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
    Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
    Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard
    Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

The AuthenTec device is the fingerprint reader, the Hewlett-Packard one is the Bluetooth module.

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