HP Compaq 6830s

Linux compatibility

Everything works out of the box apart Wi-Fi and audio controller (no sound).

Wi-Fi

Configured in the same way of Fujitsu Amilo Pro v3515

This option in the kernel boot line is necessary in order to make wifi and bluetooth working

pci=routeirq

without this option trying to use wifi makes the touch pad much less responsiveness and not really usable.

Audio (no sound)

Even raising up all the standard and extra volumes in the mixer the audio board is silent. The audio board is

lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

and in some web sites people claims everything works using this option in the kernel boot line:

irqpoll

I have tried it without any other options and the notebook starts to have such long latencies that using it or just the touch pad became insane. Audio was still not working.

In some Ubuntu related web sites I found I have to add this line into /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base file:

options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1

Unfortunately this option by itself does not work at all. I hope a real solution would be found early.

CPU

root@salvador-laptop:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0 and 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 15
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T5670  @ 1.80GHz
stepping        : 13
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cache size      : 2048 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 2
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 10
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
                  pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm
                  constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 
                  ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm ida
bogomips        : 3590.94
clflush size    : 64
power management:

Hard disk

root@salvador-laptop:~# hdparm -i /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Model=FUJITSU MHZ2250BH G2, FwRev=8909, SerialNo=K617T892YWYU
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?16?
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=488397168
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
 DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
 AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: unknown:  ATA/ATAPI-3,4,5,6,7

 * signifies the current active mode
root@salvador-laptop:~# hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   2362 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1181.31 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  166 MB in  3.01 seconds =  55.18 MB/sec

PCI devices

root@salvador-laptop:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 95c2
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
86:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 436c
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