Installing Red Hat Fedora Core 8 (F8) on an HP Pavilion dv2125nr (dv2000) Notebook Computer

For reasons described in §, I did a fresh install of F8 on the two Linux partitions of my HP Pavilion dv2000 notebook.

One anomaly is that sometimes my X mouse-cursor disappears (though it still works invisibly). A reboot usually fixes it.

My Broadcom 4311 wireless chip did not work for months. However, starting with kernel 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 (Dec. 7, 2007), and after upgrading my firmware to version 5 (to be compatible with the new b43 driver), it started working again.

I could not connect to an external projector. As far as I can tell, there is no way to obtain output of any kind to the VGA connector using the default driver `nv' (for the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 graphics hardware). This was resolved by installing the NVIDIA proprietary driver called 'nvidia'. However, I still cannot synch to some projectors (including the main one at CCRMA, unfortunately). See the end of § below for further details.