<!–texy–>I have this same laptop and I have installed Linux Ubuntu 9.10, but I cant get any of the drivers that I need to work. My main concern is the wireless, and possibly the sound. I'm curious if anyone has had this problem with 9.10 or if I may be doing something wrong. I know that this is an old thread but I'm hoping for some help. Thanks.

<!–texy–>Great to hear that, Allan. Thanks for update.

<!–texy–>Just for info, i finally fixed the problem.

it turned out to be my harddrive that apperently was formated an reinstalled to many times,

so via the hp bios i did a HD test which said read error, then i used via the bios the disk sanitizer which deleted my HD (like kill disk)

after that i could install Ubuntu without any probs

<!–texy–>OK well it wont work on my machine, read that it was a problem wich would be fixed so ill just wait thx for help.

<!–texy–>Yep, exactly like that. I used the normal Kubuntu install CD, deleted Windows Vista which was installed by default and installed Kubuntu. I've got TOSHIBA MK1011GAH 100 GB hard drive in my notebook.

<!–texy–>well now i tryed installing the alternate version with no luck, when you install your system do you install it on an clean system ?

<!–texy–>Yes i downloaded the new version, also tryid downloading ubuntu 8.10 and so on
it happens with every linux distro i try.

But i have read that it is recommended to try the alternat version, this apparantly
a problem that many have not only with the 2510p but also with other systems.

ill try the alternat version an write here if it helps.

<!–texy–>Hi allan,

I'm currently using Kubuntu Hardy 8.04 which I upgraded from Kubuntu 7.10 without any major problems. Did you try to download the latest Ubuntu/Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10 ISO image and install from that?

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

<!–texy–>Hey

iam trying to install kubuntu 7.10 on my 2510p but i keep getting an ata1.00: exception emask 0X0 and so on error.

the laptop is new an has no problems with installing xp,tryed irqpoll, and all_generic_ide but nothing works, and turning of the floppy usb thing in bios

can anyone give an idea to how to move on, i realy need to install it hate xp

<!–texy–>Does any 2510p owners have problems with configuring touchpad to your liking? Mine seems to be very hard to get used to! I've tracked the problem to different speeds on the x/y axes: pointer moves faster when traveling in vertical direction than in horizontal.

I've wrote a question about the problem here:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-September/038977.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-September/038981.html

but I would like to rule out hardware problems and I was hoping that somebody could help me by checking what x and y coordinates your touchpad returns on HP Compaq 2510p (comparing to my values in above posts).

The values can be seen by running "synclient -m 100" and moving your finger on top/bottom and left/right corners of the touchpad.

Synclient requires following line:

Option "SHMConfig" "true"

on InputDevice section for "Synaptics Touchpad" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.