I recently received a HP Compaq 2710p and I’m quite surprised by the performance of this convienent tablet.
After using it for a few weeks, I can say that it works well with GNU/Linux (Arch Linux in particular). There are a few issues, however:
- Use of the stylus occasionally conflicts with the default mouse.
- Brightness of the screen is fixed (unchangeable) upon resume from suspend (both from disk and RAM).
Here is some information about the devices within the computer.
[antony@ARCH ~]$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HBM (ICH8M-E) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) 02:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05) 02:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22) 02:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12) 10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61) [antony@ARCH ~]$ lsusb Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0461:4d17 Primax Electronics, Ltd Bus 004 Device 002: ID 08ff:2580 AuthenTec, Inc. Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 003 Device 004: ID 049f:0081 Compaq Computer Corp. Bus 003 Device 003: ID 04b4:6560 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CY7C65640 USB-2.0 "TetraHub" Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 [antony@ARCH ~]$ uname -a Linux ARCH 2.6.27-rc9 #2 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 9 00:58:03 EDT 2008 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU U7600 @ 1.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux [antony@ARCH ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 15G 2.3G 12G 17% / none 1009M 0 1009M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda2 92M 15M 73M 17% /boot /dev/sda6 15G 1.3G 13G 10% /home
I’ve kept the system relatively lightweight. Some applications that work well with this computer are:
- mutt: imap gmail access
- audacious: music
- pidgin: instant messenger
- wget: download manager
- uxterm: terminal
- firefox: browser
- dosbox: games
- dwm: window manager
- bash: shell
- netcfg: network manager
This computer is really convienent to carry around because it is so lightweight. Soon, I will upgrade to Xorg 7.4 and see if the wacom driver has improved.