HP Pavilion dv7-1080

Preface
Hp Pavilion DV7-1080 is a Intel Montevina based Laptop. Following list contains its hardware:


 * Intel Montevina Core2Duo T9400 (2x 2.53GHz 6MB Cache)
 * NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT (512MB bis 1791MB)
 * Sound Intel High Definition Audio (HDA)
 * Memory:
 * HDD 2 x 250GB SATA 5400ppm
 * RAM 4GB DDRII
 * optical Blueray, +/-R/RW(DL)
 * Networking:
 * LAN Ethernet 10/100/1000 Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express
 * WLAN Intel Wireless WiFi 5000AGN
 * Bluetooth HP Integrated Module
 * Input Devices:
 * standard keyboard + hotkeys
 * Synaptics touchpad
 * Multimedia:
 * TV-Card DVB-T AVerMedia a309
 * Webcam Logitech

Printout of lspci: lspci

Printout of lsusb: lsusb

Installation notes
Properly working WiFi 5000AGN comes with 2.6.27. So I use a 2.6.27-gentoo-r2 Kernel.
 * using Gentoo 2008.0
 * using USE flags as below:

Sound Card Intel HDA
Using alsa-driver from kernel as shown below:

Giving the folowing module parameter by editing /etc/modprobe.d/alsa as folowing:

Do not forget to run update-modules to generate /etc/modprobe.conf update-modules

TV-Card
The DVB-T AVerMedia a309 is not supportet with the 2.6.27-gentoo-r2 Kernel. So you have to install the latest V4L drivers from cvs: media-tv/v4l-dvb-hg

The module is called dvb_usb_af9015.

I'm living in Switzerland. There was no initial-tuning-data-file for Swizerland so I created one.

I'm using vlc for watching TV. vlc

Videocard
Using the latest nvidia-drivers. nvidia-drivers

Wireless
The Intel Wifi 5000 needs firmware.

iwl5000-ucode

LAN Card
Don't use the r8169 module from kernel directly. Sometimes it will slow down the internet transfer speed. Download driver for 8111/8168B from RealTek's website and make it run. It may boost the speed. --wecing

HP Pavilion dv7-1080