Comments on: Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn with an HP Compaq 6710b

By: mareeswaran

mareeswaran — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:22:09 +0000

hiii i’m having hp compaq 6710b laptop. i installed redhat enterprise 5.0. my vga is not detecting. can u please help me out where i’ve to download the driver and how i’ve to install that driver. i’m new to linux. one of my client wants to use redhat 5.0 only… please send me the reply to m.mareeswaran@yahoo.com

By: Blaise Alleyne

Blaise Alleyne — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:41:15 +0000

Not sure what your problem is, but I'd check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (be careful making changes to the file if you don't know what you're doing -- definitely backup your current copy). My touchpad section reads as follows:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
        Option          "HorizEdgeScroll"       "0"
EndSection

My bet is that Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0" is what you want!

By: Sofi

Sofi — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:55:16 +0000

hey i m having a problem with my HP Compaq 6710b touch pad…..everthing is working fine except the scroller,its nt at all working…..if any1 can help me plz kindly help

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By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:23:34 +0000

Hi! I need ur help urgently. I have gone through the Ubuntu forum threads and am still not able to solve my problem. I have a new HP Compaq 6720s laptop with Intel 965GM Graphics. Problem is the same xorg. Since I can only start Ubuntu 7.04 (I used alternate CD to install) in recovery mode (command prompt), I am unable to connect to internet to do ‘apt-get update’. My kernel is 2.6.20-15-generic and I am unable to upgrade it to 2.6.20-16. I edited the xorg.conf file ‘media to intel’ after doing the required sudo dpkg xserver-video-intel…

Is there anyways you can download and email the correct intel xorg and 2.6.20-16-generic package so that i can save it to my flash drive and try and update it from there.

I also tried installing Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 but the alternate cd just starts in text mode and the screen goes blank. pls help as i urgently require Ubuntu. many thanks…malcolm

By: Blaise

Blaise — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:20:58 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, Joy. I don’t think it’s necessary though, as Gutsy (which comes out in a month) seems like it will work ‘out-of-the-box’ (my brother’s been running the alphas on the 7610b).

Also, Ghost2003 is proprietary software, is not not? Using proprietary software in GNU/Linux really defeats the purpose of using a free operating system!

By: Joy

Joy — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:30:29 +0000

Good! what about public an image of your official ubuntu installation on 6710b? I mean image like Ghost2003.
Joy.

By: Rikiji

Rikiji — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:34:10 +0000

Thank you, I’m going to buy a Santa Rosa notebook and this tutorial will be really useful. Nice job!

By: Laurent

Laurent — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:27:52 +0000

Thank you very much for your help. Your advices exactly did the trick in my case.

By: Gabriel Carrillo

Gabriel Carrillo — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:35:01 +0000

Thank you very much for these posts! You pointed me in the right directions as to how to fix the color banding issue on my Dell Latitude D830…itś not quite resolve, however, as I use a 64bit version of Ubuntu rather than 32bit, but I´m following up with the original poster. Thanks again!