Recently, I bought a nearly new HP 2710p. I immediately formatted the HD and installed Ubuntu Hardy! I am very pleased that nearly everything works! Suspend and resume with accelerated graphics and rotation was something I really wanted with my TC1100. I was lucky that this machine was configured with and Intel 4965 AGN card and a WWAN card (which I have not yet activated). The 2710p is very much like a super-charged TC1100 with dual-cores and other modern conveniences like a fingerprint scanner and a smart-card reader. Mine did not come with the webcam though I don’t think I’ll miss the feature much. Battery life is very good and the design is very clean. Removing the annoying palmrest stickers required Goo-Gone, but the finish was unharmed. Here are some notes about getting this bad-boy configured in Ubuntu:
Some things that seem to be missing are:
- Wacom support, which I found HERE (gentoo hardware wiki)
- Screen Rotation: Make a script called rotate.sh
$ nano ~/rotate.sh
with the following contents:
#!/bin/bash
#script by Francisco Athens modified from Gentoo Wiki Intructions:
#http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_HP_Compaq_2710p#Brightness_and_Rotation
#get current setting
testrot=`xrandr -q |grep LVDS | awk '{print $3}'`
#test if screen is rotated in protrait mode
if [ "$testrot" = "800x1280+0+0" ];then
#optional kill any old xvkbd instances so that
# fresh one can load in the correct place in the screen
#killall xvkbd
xrandr -o normal
xsetwacom set stylus rotate 0
xsetwacom set eraser rotate 0
else
#killall xvkbd
xrandr --output LVDS --rotate right
xsetwacom set stylus Rotate CW
xsetwacom set eraser Rotate CW
#optional: put xvkbd on the bottom of the screen
#xvkbd -always-on-top -geometry 800x150+0-0
fi
chmod +x ~/rotate.sh
- Kernel Panic on lid close! This is a big issue, but I found the solutution HERE (Ubuntu Forums)
I edited my /etc/rc.local:
first make sure the path is correct
$ ls /proc/acpi/video/
there should be only one folder, so in my case for “C09A” add this line to /etc/rc.local:
echo "1" > /proc/acpi/video/C09A/DOS
before the “exit 0″ line
- Fingerprint Reader Support can be found HERE
- Current Ubuntu Hardy 2.6.24 iwl4965 driver appears to have problems connecting to TTLS/PAP 802.1x networks (sigh) as reported HERE (intel linux wireless forums).
