Thursday, April 2, 2009

Arch64 on the HP Pavilion dv6404ca

Last updated April 2, 2009

1.8 GHz AMD Turion ™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-56
- Works
- No special procedure required during installation.

15.4" WXGA High-Definition Brightview Widescreen (1280 X 800)
- Works
- No special procedure required during installation

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 (Uses up to 287 MB)
- Works
- Download nvidia Linux driver using pacman

Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (FireWire)
- Works
- No special procedure required during installation

Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN
- Works
- No special procedures required during install (forcedeth)

Internal 56k Modem
- Doesn't Work
- Don't care... who uses dial-up anymore?

LightScribe Super Multi 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support
- Works
- Lightscribe functionality is untested

Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 02)
- Works
- Use the Broadcom-wl driver from the AUR

5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader
- Works
- Make sure to load hald in your DAEMONS config

nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
- Works
- Follow the ALSA config in the Arch Beginner's Installation Wiki

VGA and TV-Out
- Untested
- Unable to test currently

USB 2.0 Integrated Webcam w/microphone
- Works
- No special procedure required during installation

This laptop is operating with Kernel version 2.6.28-ARCH