Debian GNU/Linux on the HP Compaq 2510p
I'll put together more complete information about Debian on the HP 2510p in the future, but in the meantime here are a few problems I ran into and what to do about them:
Debian installer
If you use the text-based Debian installer, you have to boot with fb=false, otherwise the screen will go blank.
Closing the lid
Closing and opening the lid again can crash your machine. This is most probably a BIOS bug. You can use the following workaround:
echo 7 > /proc/acpi/video/C09A/DOS
s2disk (hibernate) doesn't power down
When I use s2disk from the uswsusp package to hibernate my 2510p, it will often power up again a few seconds after shutting down. This has been fixed in the 2.6.27 kernel but the change is too invasive to backport to Debian's 2.6.26 kernel. As a workaround, you can specify shutdown rather than platform as the shutdown method used by uswsusp. Edit the configuration file /etc/uswsusp.conf and add:
shutdown method = shutdown
Information
- An image gallery with various pictures of the HP 2510p.