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All HP Pavilion dv6753ca XP Drivers

September 29th, 2010 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | No Comments | Filed in Tech

When I first got my HP Pavilion DV6753ca computer, it had Vista installed on it!  This was back in 2008.

I felt like downgrading to XP, because I liked the experience on XP better, and one of my favorite applications wouldn’t run on Vista, but would only work on XP.  So I downgraded, but I soon realized that HP, the manufacturer, didn’t really provide any XP drivers for this laptop!  I was really thrown for a loop!

After HOURS and HOURS of endless searching, I’ve managed to compile an almost complete list of all the drivers you need, and I’ve included downloads also, so you can get them all of this one page!  BOOKMARK IT!  Some of these drivers are out of date, like the nVidia drivers, but they work just fine, and I don’t think there are any newer version available for XP, so if you really want XP you’ll have to put up with that.

Otherwise, you could go with Windows 7 .  What’s handy about installing Windows 7 on this particular laptop is that you don’t have to really manually install any drivers at all!  Once you’ve installed windows, it automatically installs all the drivers for you, including your video drivers!

The DRIVERS:

nVidia Graphics Driver

SM56 Modem Driver

Realtek HD Audio Driver

Realtek PCI-E Ethernet Driver

Intel Chipset Driver

Lightscribe Driver

Synaptics Touchpad Driver

Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN

I hope that all of your driver installations run smoothly!  Please comment here if this works for you, or comment if you have a problem.

Thanks!

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XP drivers for NVidia GeForce 8400M GS

December 12th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 2 Comments | Filed in Offline, Tech

Get the drivers here:

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/nvidia/180series/18070.exe

After much searching this is the one that works!

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How to run Spore on Linux

November 15th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 15 Comments | Filed in How Tos, Offline, Tech
Spore on Linux

Spore on Linux

Before we install, we need to be sure your system can really handle this kind of graphics.  You should have a decent graphics card, and you should have the drivers installed.  If not, check out this post.

The first step to installing Spore on linux is to download Wine.  Obviously Spore is not a windows program so you’re going to have to emulate windows which is what wine does.  If you’re on Ubuntu just go to the terminal and type in the following commands in this order:

sudo apt-get install wine alsa-oss

On other operating systems you can do likewise using your various package managers.

Then, after Wine is done installing, then you can pop your Spore CD into your CD drive and then it should install (if you’ve already installed spore on the same computer but in windows and you’re in a dual boot, at this point you can just browse to the folder where you already installed it in windows and run SporeApp.exe since wine is installed with all the other required packages).

After installing, get the no-cd crack from gamecopyworld here, install that into the program folder, and you’re all set!

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Nvidia and ATI drivers for Linux

November 15th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | No Comments | Filed in How Tos

Some programs in Linux (including the ultra-cool Desktop Effects) need graphics accelleration, so they need to use your card to the full.  You need to install your graphics drivers if you want to play 3d games.

Here’s how.

First open the terminal (Applications, Accessories, Terminal)

If you have a recent card type this and hit enter:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new

-or-

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx

If you have an older card (only for TNT, TNT2, TNT Ultra, [old] GeForce, and GeForce2 chipsets):

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-legacy

For ATI, enter this in the terminal and hit enter:

sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx

After your graphics card is all set up you’re set to have fun.

Play around with desktop effects by installing this package:

sudo aptitude install compizconfig-settings-manager

Then go to the System menu, click on Preferences, and then click on Advanced Desktop Effects Settings, and have fun!

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