You can enter any specific notes with running Linux on the HP 2133 here. This Mini-Note is available with two different displays - WXGA (1280×768) and WSVGA (1024×600). If you are considering loading Linux yourself, be aware that the WXGA version is moderately difficult, and the WSVGA version is very difficult. But both are well worth the effort, once it is running it is very nice. The biggest problem with Linux on this laptop is the Via Chrome 9 graphic controller.

Linux Mint, if you’re not familiar with it, is a Ubuntu derivative that includes a lot of consumer-friendly features, like including drivers and codecs and other common.

There are a lot of quirks about this, it is not the same as the Chrome controller in many other systems, and the openchrome and vesa drivers included with most Linux distributions do not work with it properly (or at all in some cases). The best solution is to get the latest openchrome distribution, but be careful, up to and including the stable 0.2.903 release even that still didn't work properly on the HP 2133, you have to get at least the SVN snapshot after that, or a later release if there is eventually one.

I will include instructions on this in my installation notes below. The other significant problem is the Broadcom WiFi adapter; apparently various models have included the 4311, 4312 and perhaps even the 4322 controller, although the 4312 is probably the most common. Finding and installing drivers for this can also be difficult.

NOTE: In fact, these two drivers (Chrome 9 and Broadcom WiFi) seem to interact and cause problems in some cases, most frequently on the WSVGA (1024×600) Mini-Note. Descargar Inteligencia Commercial Luis Bassett Pdf Printer. The symptom is that the display appears to be just fine until the Broadcom WiFi driver is installed, and then on the next reboot either the display has the wrong resolution (often 640×480) or it is simply black. Factory Installed Os Vista Hp G60.

It appears that when this happens, it can be avoided by adding a line to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, in 'Section “Device”', with 'Option “PanelSize” “1024×600”'. Also, getting CPU frequency scaling to work can be tricky.

With Fedora 10 it just works, with openSuSE and Debian-based distributions you have to edit the GRUB config file (see below), and with Mandriva-based and other distributions, I haven't figured it out yet. You can enter a summary of how well the HP 2133 works with Linux here. I have successfully installed the following Linux distributions on this laptop: 1280×768 (WXGA) model: Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10 9.04, 9.10 and 10.04, Linux Mint 8 and 9, Mandriva 2009.0, 2009.1, 2010.0 and 2010.1, openSuSE 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3 RC2, simplyMEPIS 8.0 and 8.5, VectorLinux 6.0, Fedora 10, 11, 12 and 13, Debian 5.0, Dream Linux 3.5, Zenwalk 6.0 and 6.4, PCLinuxOS 2009.1 1024×600 (WSVGA) model: Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04, 9.10 and 10.04, Linux Mint 8 and 9, Mandriva 2010.1, openSuSE 11.3 RC2, PCLinuxOS 2009.1 I will be adding tips and tricks to get these installed in the comments section.

I just successfully installed Linux Mint 18 XFCE edition on my mini 2133. I only had to download the broadcom wireless firmware (on my 4211agn I only get the G band though) and the openchrome drivers (to enable my 1280×600 screen resolution). It seems to function with just 1GB, but the network speed and cpu responsiveness are a bit lagged. Still, I am impressed that I could find something to work with 160GB HD and 1GB of RAM let alone the odd drivers required for everything else. And it was relatively easy. FYI- the updates applied with issue nothing broke afterwards.

Just thought I would note this for anyone else who is looking for an OS for their mini 2133. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on the HP 2133. Everything works fine except the wireless adapter. To fix the problem, I went to terminal and downloaded the driver to activate the wireless chip.

Mine is 4312 broadcom wireless chip so I used “sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer”. After installation, you can go to additional drivers to then activate the driver. This time the driver would be downloaded and installed. The next thing is to reboot the machine. Once rebooted, just go to network settings and you would see that its now seeing wireless connections and you can successfully connect to them and browse without any issues or screen problems.

I hope this helps someone. Had hp2133 sled10 2008. Excellent little tool. Never got to grips with Novell SUSE & yast. OK when visiting many countries. Tried U10.04 ok; but probs with sound (mp3/4).

Then 1st ver Unity - no good! Reverted to U10.10 ran ok, no serious probs. U12.04 Unity P.P.: installed ok: loaded addit.drivers & wl ok: got mp3/4 ok: (no probs Apr - Nov.) Updates NOT allowed. Enabled a bunch of updates to d/l & install. __DISASTER!!__ Killed both BCM4311 & nvidia drivers stone dead! Trolled the forums & Google lists for fixes. After various wl drivers tried from various install methods, got wl functional again!