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HP Compaq nx5000

Issue 129

From Issue #129
January 2005

Dec 01, 2004  By Don Marti
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With the nx5000, HP gets closer than anyone has yet to a general-purpose business PC running Linux.
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Fortunately, for our ability to test HP's Linux support, we found one thing that didn't work—the front-panel volume and mute buttons. We got through to a Linux support person quickly, but the nx5000 he had seemed not to have the same load as the review unit, and the solution that got the review unit working didn't work for him. The solution was to run LinEAK, which was installed but not running in our KDE session.

Finally, right before we sent the laptop back, one person was able to get the nx5000 to lock up twice in one day simply by editing a file with Vim in a Konsole window. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace wouldn't work to kill X, and we weren't able to duplicate the problem.

With the nx5000, HP gets closer than anyone has yet to a general-purpose business PC running Linux. If you want to make your company's Linux desktop migration a treat of working in café and enjoying media instead of a chore, get one to evaluate. Dorm-room or small-apartment dwellers can consider this as a good main computer and entertainment system.

Don Marti is Editor in Chief of Linux Journal.

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l cant fine of my laptop drivers*hp compaq nx5000

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Submitted by sandra darkson (not verified) on Fri, 01/23/2009 - 12:42.

please help me to fine these drivers for my laptop
1.graphics
2.sound drivers
3.windows
thank very much...hope to hear from u very soon..

I can help you!!!

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 12:16.

I can help you... i can send you a CD with all those drivers I have the same computer, I can make a back up and send it to you, I just need your adrees to ship it to you.

Tin

drivers hp compaq nx5000

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Submitted by haboub01 (not verified) on Tue, 11/13/2007 - 02:38.

I need the driver of the network nx5000 for my laptop , please lead me to it.

Would SuSE 9.2 Pro work?

Paul's picture
Submitted by Paul (not verified) on Wed, 12/15/2004 - 17:31.

Hi,

Would SuSE 9.2 Pro installed over the top of the 9.1 install work?
Do you know if HP will start using 9.2 in the future?

Paul

nx5000 - my experience

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Submitted by jlarry on Fri, 12/10/2004 - 02:10.

First, My unit is almost identical to th review unit, except its 1.6GHz and has bluetooth.

I bought this because a review said everything worked. Well, not out of the box, but indeed everything does work. IrDA (SIR only), bluetooth, modem, wifi, ethernet, serial, parallel, USB, Firewire, S-video out.

There's no internal Microphone, but the modem is a complete voice/fax/data modem, and most of the source code (maybe all?) is available from the vendor. Similarly, the Atheros Wifi driver is mostly source-code available (there is one piece the US FCC will not allow to be released as source code). Again, the vendor will steer you to it. Also, the modem driver daemon works quite well with the standard intel8x0m module, so the proprietary modules aen't really necessary. Note that HP has provided the module source code where available, ready to rebuild, in usr/src/kernel-modules.

LinDVD seems to have trouble with 1400X1050, but the open-source player works OK. However, the lock-ups really happen. I think it is a video memory allocation problerm, but don't have any real evidence.

Fedora Core 3 works OK, except for xorg - which is a guaranteed lock-up. The older XFree86 SuSE supplies has the problem very rarely.

All in all, I'm very happy with the computer, but I've spent a LOT of time trying to find the elusive lock-up.

RE:nx5000 - my experience

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 04/26/2006 - 12:07.

Hi,

Can you send me any kind of directives concerning S-Video out and irda configuration. I have Debian Testing installed on my laptop.

--
Chris

Hot swap??

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Submitted by Bustoff on Thu, 12/09/2004 - 17:44.

Don,

When you say swap the CD/DVD for the battery, is that a hot swap with some KDE/Gnome software knowing what is going on? Or worse yet, do you need to power down the machine to swap? Also, when using two batteries does the battery monitor show them both or does it simply add up both battery times and treat them as one battery?

Thanks,
Ron

about how to buy a battery for my hp compaq nx 5000

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Submitted by mystov (not verified) on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 10:40.

Please i am from morocco i have a portable hp compaq nx 5000 i want to buy a new battery by internet but i don t know how . please help me
thanx

RE: The Compaq FTP server: A link worth remembering

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Submitted by compaq battery (not verified) on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 21:16.

If you need a new laptop battery, I suggest you could puechase one from http://www.batteryfast.com , which would shipping to yu fast and the quality is satisfy satisfied.:)

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