[mdlug] HP printer working well

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Peter Bart wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:38:54 -0500
> "Ingles, Raymond" <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:
> 
>> I like that HP specifically makes Linux drivers available for most of
>> their printers and updates them. My parents old printer died, and
>> looking at circular deals, I had them pick up an HP C5580; the printer
>> itself worked out of the box, my father (who's not a computer type)
>> had no trouble. The scanner didn't work at first (they're running an
>> older Ubuntu) but I was able to download and install the latest HP
>> Linux drivers and it was quite straightforward.
>>
>>  Just offering a datapoint.
>>
> 	
> 	Thanks Ray, I wish I had gone with the HP last year. My
> hindsight is great but at least I know now. 
> 
> Best Regards,
>  

Last year I did go with an HP DV9000 series laptop. Everything but the 
Ricoh card reader work perfectly, until about 2 weeks after the the one 
year warranty expired. Then the NVidia video failed. I can boot to 
command line, but even there the text characters look "worm eaten" and 
sketchy. Most of the time X will not start, the error is:"could not 
initialize NVidia /dev/nvidia0" (or words very much like that.) Even the 
HP logo at the first power up splash, and the bois screens look "off".

I'm looking to get a second opinion, but I think I'll need to replace 
the motherboard. :(

Other than that, it worked great!

Raymond McLaughlin