HP Pavilion zd7140

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Another work in Progress - by PhrakTure I am currently running Arch on this laptop, 98% problem free... and no I have not yet configured the media card reader, as I have no use for it. If anyone really has a problem, let me know (PM from forums).

Modules

  • Ethernet: 8139too
  • Wireless: ndiswrapper using BCMWL5A pkg[dead link 2020-03-29 ⓘ] PKGBUILD[dead link 2020-03-29 ⓘ]
  • Audio: snd-intel-8x0 / snd-pcm-oss
  • Video: nvidia [1]

Other

  • Composite: works, but gets goofy with flash animations in Firefox

Unusual settings

  • Video mode detected wrong
Add the following to the device (nvidia driver) section in xorg.conf
Option "IgnoreEDID" "True"
  • And the following line to the "Monitor" section
    Modeline "1440x900"  106.47  1440 1520 1672 1904  900 901 904 932  -hsync +vsync

The following Display Subsection (in the Screen Section) will allow you to use the display's native viewing mode. 

Subsection "Display"
  Depth       24
  Modes "1440x900"
  Virtual 1440 900
EndSubsection

See also