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["John Ellis \(formerly : 507laird@xxxxxxxxx -Cancelled\)" <john.ernest.ellis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Christopher:
                                   I am afraid that I flubbed the 
initial process of updating the bios by making the mistake of (as 
advised by hp's update instructions on extracting the dos executable to 
restore factory default settings to bios before updating old bios 1.41) 
restoring the default bios settings meant that my dual boot system 
became dominated by windows before I could even update the bios and I 
did not have a backup of the efi boot through the cab extract method. 
But after this I was able to flash the bios in the pre boot environment 
so that my bios is now updated to 1.47.

     Following this I was unable to reinstall Ubuntu or reinable Grub2 
boot in fact it was only by wiping my hard drive (my mistakes have cost 
many lost hours ) completely with a gparted cd that I was able to 
install Ubuntu again. The bios update has not made any difference in the 
accommodating of the error in configuring the 32 inch monitor as if it 
was a 37 inch monitor.

      The output from your terminal command was as expected:

J51 v01.47
07/18/2013

but no gain just pain and I have lost my dual boot with windows 8.1 and 
days of updates from windows 8, and a lost hauppauge WinTV pvr 
configuration that I could never get to work with Linux. Oh well!
Best of the season
John Ellis
On 2014-12-13 04:13 AM, Christopher M. Penalver wrote:
> John Ellis, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. As per http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=5053191&swLangOid=8&swEnvOid=4060 an update to your BIOS is available (1.47). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything?  If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
> sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date
>
> For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette
> .
>
> Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so
> posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't
> have to create a new bug report.
>
> Once the BIOS is updated, then please mark this report Status Confirmed.
>
> Thank you for your understanding.
>
> ** Tags added: bios-outdated-1.47
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
>     Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
>         Status: New => Incomplete
>

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1401743

Title:
  HP Z210 workstation with nvidia Quadro 600 card thinks 32 inch  sharp
  TV/monitor is 37 inch

Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I am dual booting with windows 8.1 and I am able to tweak the same
  misconfiguration with the nvidia console in windows by shrinking (down
  scaling) the display from 1920 X1080 to 1824 X 1026 resolution....
  preserving the aspect ratio.

   Is it possible to enable the correct identification of the monitor as
  a 32 inch diagonal instead of an oversized 37 inch diagonal which
  makes my top menu bar and application side bar offscreen? I tried to
  install the nvidia (updates driver) but tweaking resulted in a
  missconfiguration forcing a lockup and reinstall.

  Since Windows also misidentifies this display it may be a
  communication error sourced from the display itself or documentation
  annomalies in an obscure monitor ...any advice or direction would be
  appreciated.

  John Ellis

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: xorg 1:7.7+7ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-28.37-generic 3.16.7-ckt1
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-28-generic x86_64
  .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
  CompositorRunning: compiz
  CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
  CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
  Date: Thu Dec 11 21:50:04 2014
  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
  DistroCodename: utopic
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, including running git bisection searches
  GraphicsCard:
   NVIDIA Corporation GF108GL [Quadro 600] [10de:0df8] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:0835]
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-12 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
  MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Z210 Workstation
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-28-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=6240f369-971d-4d13-b37d-b64e3abe7964 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: xorg
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 07/11/2012
  dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.bios.version: J51 v01.41
  dmi.board.asset.tag: 2UA12307FK-XM857AV
  dmi.board.name: 1588h
  dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 2UA12307FK-XM857AV
  dmi.chassis.type: 6
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrJ51v01.41:bd07/11/2012:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPZ210Workstation:pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1588h:rvr:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct6:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: HP Z210 Workstation
  dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12+14.10.20140918-0ubuntu1
  version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.56-1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.3.0-0ubuntu3
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.3.0-0ubuntu3
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.16.0-1ubuntu1.2
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.4.0-2ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.914-1~exp1ubuntu4.1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.11-1ubuntu2
  xserver.bootTime: Thu Dec 11 21:20:56 2014
  xserver.configfile: default
  xserver.errors:
   Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
   Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
  xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
  xserver.version: 2:1.16.0-1ubuntu1.2
  xserver.video_driver: nouveau

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