HP Pavilion dv6-6b11ss

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Hardware:
Printout of lspci:

Wi-Fi drivers:
Compile and install brcmsmac driver from linux kernel.

And install the ebuild sys-kernel/linux-firmware to get the required firmware.

SD card reader:
To make sure the integrated SD card reader works fine, your kernel should have (from Gentoo forums): CONFIG_MFD_RTSX_PCI=m CONFIG_MMC_REALTEK_PCI=m CONFIG_MEMSTICK_REALTEK_PCI=m MMC_REALTEK_PCI=m

ACPI:
Edit the /etc/default/grub file and add this string: ... GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi=Linux" Next, run grub2-mkconfig to update your configuration from that file.

Graphics and video decoding:
The laptop includes an Intel Sandy-Bridge GPU that supports VA API. Sadly, this standard is not recognize for many applications, but you can install the great libvdpau-va-gl library from several overlays to get the video decoding by hardware works for VDPAU, a standard more extended. See this blog entry: VA API Backend for VDPAU

Touchpad and keyboard layout config:
Make a /etc/X11/xorg.conf to config the synaptics touchpad and keyboard layout (in my case, Spanish)

Section "InputClass" Identifier  "MyTouchpad" MatchIsTouchpad  "on" MatchDevicePath  "/dev/input/event*" Driver     "synaptics" Option     "TapButton1" "1" Option     "VertEdgeScroll" "true" Option     "HorizEdgeScroll" "true" Option     "RTCornerButton" "3" Option     "RBCornerButton" "2" Option     "MaxTapMove" "131" Option     "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "24" option     "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "9" Option     "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on" EndSection Section "InputClass" Identifier "mykeyboard" Driver "evdev" Option "XkbLayout" "es" MatchIsKeyboard "on" EndSection Section "InputClass" Identifier "touchpad catchall" MatchIsTouchpad "on" Option "TapButton1" "1" Option "TapButton2" "2" Option "TapButton3" "3" EndSection
 * 1) Xorg configuration: mouse