Laptop COMPATIBILITY List.

[leneflower]

Samsung NF310
10.10 Netbook Edition

Wireless does not work out of the box, you must plug in an Ethernet cable and start the Update Manager. Then you're offered to activate the propietary driver.

[rwshoemaker]

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick with Kernel Linux 2.6.32-24-generic
Hewlett-Packard Pavilion Laptop
Product Name dv8305us
US Product Number EZ579UA#ABA
Microprocessor 1.8 GHz AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile Technology ML-34
Microprocessor Cache 1MB L2 Cache
Memory 2048MB 333MHz DDR System Memory (2 Dimm)
Memory Max 2048MB
Video Graphics ATI RADEON® XPRESS 200M IGP
Video Memory 256MB DDR (shared)
Hard Drive 80GB (5400RPM) 120GB (5400RPM)
Multimedia Drive LightScribe Super Multi 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support
Display 17.0” WXGA+ High-Definition BrightView Widescreen Display (1440 x 900)
Fax/Modem High speed 56k modem
Network Card Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)
Wireless Connectivity 54g™ 802.11b/g WLAN with 125HSM / SpeedBooster support ( I removed this card to use the N speed PCMCIA )
Wireless Connectivity PCMCIA RT2860STA chipset - works with vendor dat files at 135Mbs RALINK RT2860STA
Sound Altec Lansing
Keyboard Notebook keyboard with scroll bar and integrated numeric keypad

2 Quick Launch Buttons (HP Quick Play Music and DVD buttons)

Calculator Launch Button
Pointing Device Touch Pad with dedicated vertical Scroll Up/Down pad
PC Card Slots

* 1 ExpressCard/54 Slot (also supports ExpressCard/34)
* 1 Type I/II 32-bit card bus (also support 16-bit)

External Ports

* 6-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, Memory Sticks, Memory Stick Pro, SmartMedia or xD Picture cards
* 4 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0
* 1 Headphone out w/SPDIF Digital Audio
* 1 microphone-in
* 1 VGA (15-pin)
* 1 TV-Out (S-video)
* 1 RJ-11 (modem)
* 1 RJ -45 (LAN)
* 1 Expansion Port 2, 1 IEEE 1394 Firewire (4-pin)
* 1 Consumer IR (Remote Receiver)

I have run Ubuntu on this machine with great success, dual booting first XP, then Vista and Jaunty through Maverick. It works "out of the box" except for tinkering with the included Broadcom wireless pci 54g, which requires the built-in "additional drivers" dialog and is painless to get started, and then removing that card to gain N speeds, which requires Ralink driver for the card I used. There are no "showstoppers" and all works smoothly, including the add on cards, once you figure out the driver situation for 802.11n, since the n spec is not released yet. Very satisfactory performance for a long time through many distributions of Ubuntu.

[bluedalek]

HP G62-224CA Laptop
Kubuntu 10.10 64bit

2.1GHz AMD Athlon II Dual-Core P320 w/ 1MB L2 Cache (AMD Vision)
3GB DDR3 System Memory (1x 1GB, 1x 2GB)
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 Graphics w/ Up to 1405MB
OCZ 32GB SSD*
320GB 7200RPM External USB**
LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support
15.6" diagonal High-Definition HP BrightView LED Display ( 1366 x 768 )
High-speed 56k modem
Integrated 10/100 Ethernet LAN
Broadcom 802.11b/g/n WLAN

External Ports
5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, or xD Picture cards
3 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0
1 HDMI
1 VGA (15-pin)
1 RJ-11 (modem)
1 RJ -45 (LAN)
1 Headphone-out
1 Microphone-in
HP Webcam with integrated microphone

Worked perfectly out of the box.
Only additional items I had to do was to install the proprietary ATI & Broadcom drivers.
Full hardware acceleration w/ Compiz effects.
*Swapped the included 7200rpm drive for the SSD about a week after I purchased. Battery life went from 2.5-3hrs upto almost 8hrs on a full charge. System boots in under 15 seconds (after POST)

[sp0]

1 - Ubuntu 10.10 - Maverick Meerkat (x64 bit)
2 - Acer
3 - Aspire 5520G

-internal mic is not working as it should, but everything else is great!

[KWS48]

Using Ubuntu 10.4
Acer Extensa 4420-5963

Works fine except wireless. Have looked at all the threads in the forums ( and elsewhere ) have still not found a solution.

Machine uses Broadcom 4132 but BCM43 driver does not work. Cannot activate sta driver. Have tried every suggestion none of them work. I have all but given up. Never did use wireless, but it was nice when I had windows installed. I cannot take my laptop anywhere to use wireless hot spots. Not that I would do that much.

[JewelsM700]

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
Compaq Armada M700

Integrated touch pointing device works, integrated mouse buttons don't work. Motorola PCMCIA wireless card installed with Ubuntu Broadcom driver. Graphics seem good. Don't know if function keys work or not, just loaded Ubuntu tonight. First time Linux user.

[rjmanmac]

ubuntu 10.l0 maverick meerkat
Samsung NC10
Everything works fine exept from a few function buttons

[goopensorcego]

my hp pavilion dv6000 works well. unity won't run and video card requires a proprietary driver; but other than that Ubuntu 9.10 - 10.10 work flawlessly

[jjer]

1)Version Of Ubuntu: 10.04
2)Laptop Maker: Acer
3)Laptop Model: Aspire 7720G
- Ubuntu 10.04 was installed without any problems.
- The OS works OK, except for lagging mouse experience, that seems to be in line with problems described in this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...=freeze&page=1

1)Version Of Ubuntu: 10.10
2)Laptop Maker: Acer
3)Laptop Model: Aspire 7720G
- Ubuntu 10.10: The installation script on the CD (made by the ISO) did not succeed installing Ubuntu 10.10, giving many error messages, and finally stopped.

I am therefore using the 10.04 version.

Edit: 30th October 2011:

Version 11.10 (32-bit version):
- Backed up the user files and made a clean install with Ubuntu 11.10 (32-bit). The installation was flawless.
- Very satisfied with the performance. The lagging mouse experience mentioned before is gone.
- This is the version in use on the Acer Aspire 7720G laptop.

Version 11.10 (64-bit version):
- Failed under install, stopped at various points during several trials.
- Not used by this user on the Acer Aspire 7720G laptop.

[archithcr]

Ubuntu 10.10
HP DV6 3143se

almost everything works, except for the ralink 3090 wifi card, for which i got help on the forum. download the wifi driver from ralink's site, make and install them and DON'T forget to blacklist the ralink 2800 series in the blacklist.conf file.

function keys work well, the radeon 5650 linux drivers cause system crash which make recovery booting impossible, so i make do with intel hd graphics.

battery estimate doesn't work in power manager. it's stuck at battery life estimating stage, although it gives me rest of info like maximum capacity, current capacity, discharge rate etc.