[SOLVED] Desktop Hardware Compatibility List. [Archive] - Page 2

bkline

June 17th, 2008, 10:41 PM

HP Slimline s3400f
AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual 5200+ (2.70GHz)
NVIDIA nForce 430 chipset
3GB PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM
500GB 7200RPM SATA drive
NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE graphics (128MB)
10/100BaseT Ethernet
Wireless 802.11b/g
on-board audio

Ubuntu 8.04/i386 (not brave enough yet for the 64-bit)
All updates current

First attempt didn't get past pressing Enter to start the install process: just hung there with a black screen and a cursor blinking in the upper left corner. I tried falling back on upgrading my current Windows XP workstation to Ubuntu and using the new machine as my Windows system, but that would have boxed me into the corner of having to use the Vista that came installed on the machine instead of XP, and besides, things weren't working well in Windows, either.

So after a couple of days going back and forth with HP support, I decided the machine must be a lemon. Took it back to the store, swapped it for another of the same model and started over. Smoothest installation of any operating system I've ever installed. Graphics came right up into the monitor's native 1920x1200, sound worked perfectly, wireless worked without any hand-holding whatsover (other than plugging in the WEP key), DVD burner worked flawlessly. Wireless has a little hum if the sound is turned up, but I don't plan to use the wireless on this system anyway. One moment of panic came when I looked at the output from `cat /proc/cpuinfo` which gave bogomips of only 2000 per CPU (running at 1GHz) but with a little research I found that this is just the energy saving feature preventing the system from using more juice than is necessary when you're not asking it to do any real work.

In short, looks like a success story after the first couple of days. (I do wish I had the 4GB of memory they accidentally installed in the first machine, but maybe that was part of the problem.)

jenny_thinkpad_t61p

June 18th, 2008, 08:40 PM

Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 (amd64)

Lenovo Thinkpad T61P type 6457-BQG

Intel Core 2 Duo (Penryn) 2.6ghz - WORKING both CPU cores / Power Management.
4gb RAM - WORKING with amd64 install.
200gb Full Disk Encryption HDD - WORKING

Windows Vista 32bit Ulitmate pre-install - WORKING /PART - Re-sizing vista works from within Vista BUT still takes up 100gb disk space + ThinkVantage Utility Partition. - Wiping Vista and Thinkvantage off altogether works the best! :twisted:Vista will only use 3gb ram.

NVidia Quadro FX 570m - WORKING / Propriatory Drivers Optimal - Doing an install with VESA driver selected will work, the packaged nv driver will not start. After getting the machine running with VESA driver running the ENVY application will install the Nvidia drivers and will work. The VESA driver will not support compiz-fusion but the Nvida propriatory driver works great.:popcorn:

Screen 15.4" WUXGA - WORKING, screen is excellent and works fine, though changing the brightness in the bios is recommended as it is dull.

Intel 4965agn WORKING / Part -Works fine from DVD install, software update seems to fix regular disconnection issue but disables LED indicator.

Modem - UNKNOWN / Probably broken.

Ethernet - WORKING out of the box (tested at 100mbps)

Soundcard - WORKING out of the box

Fingerprint reader - WORKING / Part (supposed) search for THINKFINGER, seems to only use one fingerprint rather than multi-finger enroll in vista. Also crashed my machine badly.

Touchpad etc, WORKING fine, both red "nipple" and Touchpad, right side of touchpad scrolls vertically, buttons fine.

DVD - WORKING - seems to prefer +RW's not -RW's

Buttons - Volume WORKING fine. Thinkvantage - Broken Function Keys [LOCK] works [Battery] Display battery info, [SLEEP] works - see below, [RADIO] operates bluetooth, upsets sound, [SCREEN] external monitor not working from O/S only on hard boot from bios [brightness and Keyboard light] Working [others] working.

Suspend / Hibernate - Was working out of the BOX but I broke it, therefore it depends on the software installed.

PCMCIA / CARDBUS - UNKOWN wouldn't recognise my PCMCIA modem, but probably not the busses fault.

USB - WORKING / Firewire - Unknown

Battery life - Not Great, if you need longer life buy 2 :biggrin:

seriously use powertop to sort out your apps and you can enable powersaving of the wireless card, subscribe to linux-thinkpad for more info.

Accessories

Virgin Media (uk) - If you subscribe you might not be able to complete the registration that you get as soon as you fire up the web browser. If this happens call them and tell THEM to complete the registration online because there servers are crap and don't want to support linux. They will say that Linux is not supported and that it won't work or some b/s, tell them your not paying for the phonecall and ask for the manager, when you find someone who knows what their doing it will be sorted.

Samsung CLP-300n - WORKING / Part out of the box. USB operation is flawless. When using with X-sane text may appear too dark / large. Network functionality seems a misnomer.

Cannon Lide 25 - WORKING out of the box with Xsane.

venglisch

June 20th, 2008, 07:12 AM

Gateway MX3225 Notebook
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Intel Celeron M Processor 370
Via VN800 chipset
512 MB DDR2 SODIMM 533 MHz
60GB 4200 RPM hard drive
S3 UniChrome Pro integrated graphics processor
10/100 Mbps built-in Ethernet
802.11g integrated Wireless
56K ITU V.92 ready Fax/Modem (RJ-11 port)
AC '97 2.3 Compliant audio

I initially started Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) on this machine as a live CD and did install directly from the live CD but I had problems with
- the audio (no sound)
- the wireless
- the display (the desktop didn't fit on the display and there were about 10-15% of real estate missing to the right and bottom.

I got wireless working when using a PCI card but I couldn't get the integrated wireless to work.

After a while banging my head I re-installed Ubuntu, this time without going though the live CD but using the second option on the DVD to install Ubuntu - et voila, the graphics what recognized.

The audio worked after pushing a couple of buttons in the Alsa mixer.
The external wireless (Linksys 802.11g PCI) worked right away after installing the driver.
The internal wireless worked after using the patch and instructions from
http://willdaniels.co.uk/articles/howto-guides/10-howto/12-r8180-hardy
The graphics worked but only at a resolution of 800x600. By using the vesa driver and selecting a resolution of 1280x768 though, this problem was resolved as well.

wpshooter

June 24th, 2008, 06:53 PM

HOW can they label this thread as a "hardware compatibility LISTING", when the only way that you could possibly find if a particular piece of hardware is compatible with Ubuntu, is to read EVERY word in over 250 different posts ?

And even then, I am not sure that you would have a definitive answer !!!

If someone wants to make an actual LISTING, only then should they label that thread as a listing.

Thanks.

benste

June 25th, 2008, 12:47 PM

why can't we collext all inputs as adatabase seperated into GPU WLAN Input ...

like http://www.openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Anyone

There you would be able to search as fast as possible for vendor and product name

confused57

June 25th, 2008, 08:49 PM

Also, this link on Herman's site may be helpful:
http://www.ubuntuhcl.org/

benste

June 25th, 2008, 10:35 PM

a litle bit to complicated or?

mgame2k

June 26th, 2008, 07:08 PM

Ubunutu currently 7.10
Will be upgrading to 8.04 64bit in the near future

Yes I will be using more than 3Gb of RAM.

My question is this.
Will my new nvidia 8600GT and a Creative Sound blaster Audigy SE 7.1 be autodetected and installed for me?

benste

June 26th, 2008, 07:11 PM

confused57 you're "addicted to ubuntu"
do you have enough time to create a website - database where we alll can collcet these infos?

Or would someone like that I'll start to work on such a database as freetimefun?

the DB should be official integrated into UF otherwise no one would care about it or?

StumpyMcDonut

June 26th, 2008, 07:36 PM

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)
Gigabyte P35-DS4 mobo
(Inno3d) Nvidia 8800gts 512 (G92) - works perfectly with everything although the linux performance is slower than I'd like, especially when gaming, and certain compiz effects seem to run horribly slow
Core 2 Duo e6750 (2.66ghz, works fine with the rt kernel overclocked)
OCZ RAM - 800mhz (4gb) (Cant remember the exact product name :S)
Samsung Spinpoint 500gb HDD (again, cant remember exact name)
The CD/DVD drive is DVD-RAM, I bought it as cheaply as possible so I'm not even sure what it is (no branding)

Samsung syncmaster 226bw monitor

Somewhere you can search for your hardware and see its compatibility would be brilliant

sop408

June 27th, 2008, 06:24 PM

Hardy 8.04 + Dell Inspiron 2650 Laptop

It works fine, and Hardy seems to detect pretty much most of hardwares in the laptop.
but, i think there is a problem if you enable the graphic card which is nvidia.

benste

June 27th, 2008, 06:43 PM

Which grafic card do you own? - did you try envy to install the driver?
- the restricted module manager doesn't detect nvidia cards in 19 kernel

d_skillz

June 28th, 2008, 12:48 AM

Sony Vaio vgn-n325e works fine out of the box. Every thing supported except the foll.
I am a new Linux user, Used to mess around the various distros, knoppix, redhat & mandrake. Using Pcs for 22 years from MSDOS & Win 3.1. I have just been using Ubuntu 8.04 Hard Herron for 2 weeks now on my Sony vaio vgn-n325e laptop and I have serious acpi problems. Machine wont shutdown without hard power-off, restarts fine, cant see battery state or ac adapter states. Please help, I have completely formatted vista, I am so impressed with the system responsiveness but need full laptop compatibility.

benste

June 28th, 2008, 10:32 AM

Sadly we can't give you full functionality FN keys normally won't work.

dboes

June 28th, 2008, 01:03 PM

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron
Webcam Trust WB 3500T

lsusb
Bus 005 Device 004: ID 04a9:221c Canon, Inc.
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0d49:3200 Maxtor
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 2770:930c NHJ, Ltd (this is the webcam)
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 03f0:0004 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 895c
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

lsmod | grep videodev

this command returns nothing.
But the light on the webcam goes on.
After that again nothing
No image in Camorama or Ekiga and so on.

Someone that have installed this particular webcam or webcam with simular hardware id?

Please tell how.

Tnks

ruminant1

June 30th, 2008, 04:10 AM

mythbuntu 8.04
Gigabyte ga-ma78gm-s2h motherboard
Onboard ATI Radeon HD3200HD graphics
Onboard Realtek ALC889a sound
Onboard Realtek 8111C gigabit LAN
Athlon X2 5400+ processor
SUPER TALENT INT-AIN1-C All-in-one USB 2.0 Card Reader
Samsung SH-S203N DVD burner
Avermedia A180 tuner card
Microsoft Media Center Keyboard

Overall, worked great out of the box with standard install (nice work folks!) I even got a friend to build a system based on this mobo and he got it up and running without ever having touched a linux box. XVideo, Gigabit LAN, sound over SPDIF and analog, media card reader; you name it and it works. There has been some grumbling about sound over hdmi, but I've never tried it.

The tuner card and keyboard require a little work to get running, which must be repeated when a new kernel is released, but it's otherwise been a relatively easy box to keep running. (Is there any plan to pull lirc_mod_mce into the standard distro? You already support the remote)

The video is pretty good. I have XVideo running and I've watched HD programming with no problem. Well, one problem: there is some tearing. I tried the newest ATI drivers and the tearing is gone in GL, but still not in XV. They caused all kinds of other headaches, however (looks like some sort of buffer issue - the screen sometimes doesn't redraw correctly when you move stuff) so I'm back to whatever's supported (partimage rocks!).

I currently give the box an "A" that will be changed to an "A+" when ATI gets their drivers worked out.

GriZzlEnLS

June 30th, 2008, 09:16 AM

3 of 3 Computers working great with 8.04 Ubuntu (1 with 64bit other 2 with 32bit)

Frist "Frankie" 64bit (Dual boot w/Vista Home Premium 64bit)
Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R Motherboard
Intel E4300 @ 3.06 1360 FSB (Overclocked)
6GB @ 850MHz 4-4-4-12 RAM
EVGA Nvidia 8800GT 512mb
1 160GB & 250GB HDD
On board soundcard
On board NIC

Second Dell XPS 410 32bit (Dual boot w/Vista Home Premium 32bit)
Intel/Dell P35 chipset Motherboard
Intel E4700 @ 2.40 GHz
3GB @ 667MHz RAM
EVGA Nvidia 8600GT 512mb
2 250GB HDD
On board soundcard
On board NIC

Third Gateway MT3423 (Laptop) 32bit
Nvidia Chipset Motherboard
AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56 @ 1.80GHz
2GB @ 667MHz RAM
Nvidia Go 6100 128mb
1 160GB HDD

cn23

July 2nd, 2008, 11:51 PM

Dell Inspiron 8600
Ubuntu 8.04
Intel Pentium M Processor 1.4Ghz
1 GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce Go 5200 64 MB
80GB HD (Hitachi)

cptasker

July 5th, 2008, 01:27 AM

Ubuntu 8.04
Sony Vaio VGN N11M

Intel centrino core duo 1.60ghz/512 MB ram/80gb hdd/802.11 wlan Atheros wireless/Intel GMA 950 graphics

Worked straight off the cd, no problems whatsoever!

I can plug my Nokia in (Nokia PC suite is windows/mac only) using the usb lead and access all the files on the memory card with no trouble

Wireless worked straight away, just had to configure modem (Linksys) took about 2 hours to be fully operational from putting in the disc!
:)

abhilashkumar

July 7th, 2008, 11:25 AM

1)Version Of Ubuntu: 8.04 LTS

2)Type Of Hardware: Laptop

3)Hardware Maker: Acer

4)Hardware Model: Aspire 4520

Everything except wifi worked out of the box. wifi working with ndiswrapper 1.52

loza

July 7th, 2008, 03:01 PM

Toshiba Satellite Pro L-10 laptop (I upgraded RAM to 1GB) initially ran 7.04 and upgraded through to 7.10 and now 8.04.

The only thing that has stopped working on the laptop itself is the Fn key to control the speaker sound. I first noticed this when upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04.

Peripherals I use on this laptop that work are:

Transcend SD and SDHC cards with no problems being read through a Bytestore Multi Card Reader.
Sandisk Curzer 1Gb pen drive - recognized ok
Corsair Flash Voyager pen drive - recognized ok
HPdvd1040 external DVD RW drive - Got this new when I was running 7.10 and it was only recognized as a CDROM drive. However I upgraded to 8.04 and that seem to fix the problem now - fully working.
Samsung CLX-2160 MFP colour laser printer - the scanner stopped working when I upgraded to 8.04. However after the help from the good people here its now working. Here's how (http://http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4776310&postcount=114)
Garmin Nuvi 760 GPS - recognized fine
Sony Erricson W880i - recognized fine
Wacom Wide A3 Graphics Tablet - works fine after following this How To (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=765915&highlight=wacom)

Also have Studio 8.04 on a Shuttle G40 with 2Gb RAM and can use all the above peripherals with this PC too with any problems.

Qinjuehang

July 9th, 2008, 12:02 PM

Intel Q9300 (speedstep does not work out of the box, still working on it)
Intel High Definition Audio
Intel P35 Chipset
Realtek 8111C ethernet (slow, but works)
Leadtek Winfast PX9600GT (Nvidia 9600GT graphics Card)

Ubuntu Studio 8.04 x86_64 Dual booted with Windows Vista Home Premium.

mwgnz

July 12th, 2008, 10:32 AM

Ubuntu 8.04 AMD64

Hardware:
Intel Q6600 CPU | Asus P5Q Pro M/B | XFX 9600GT | Samsung SATA DVDRW (AHCI) | WD 640GB SATA II (AHCI) | 4GB G.Skill RAM Dual-channel

So far everything works. The only thing I had to do was compile the Aetheros NIC driver as per this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=770173&highlight=P5Q

Installed the NVIDIA drivers and everything seems to be fine.

M

Niggle

July 12th, 2008, 12:06 PM

Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04
Desktop system from Novatech
Model: ISys EX
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/range.html?t=pc&c=home&r=ISX

Motherboard: Foxconn M7VMX-K
Chipset: nvidia GeForce 7050 / nForce 610i
Graphics: NVIDIA 8400GS 256MB PCI-E

Purchased without OS. Hardy install went perfectly. Everything seems to work.
Haven't tested the LAN port since I'm using a wireless card, but it was recognised correctly.
Only minor thing so far is that after installing the (restricted) nvidia drivers, it no longer recognised my monitor (Iiyama S900MT1 CRT) so defaults to 1280x1024 rather than 1600x1200.
(edit an hour later) - Installing the "NVIDIA X Server Settings" package from the "System Tools" section of "Add/Remove" allowed me to select the correct resolution.

styrofoam cup

July 14th, 2008, 09:07 AM

Worked straight away without any problem. is using WPA2 also.

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron i386
PCI Wireless Card
D Link
DWL G520

Printed on the box...
HW ver : 4B
FW ver : 4.40

Printed on the card...
AWL G520EU.B4G

ubuntu rocks
:guitar:

Casper Hansen

July 17th, 2008, 01:52 AM

Home buld computer system:

Ubuntu Hardy Heron

CPU: AMD Athlon64 X2 4000+
Mobo: ASRock ALIVENF6G-VSTA AM2 1000FSB
Graphics: Asus EN8600GT/SI/HTDP/256, PCI-E
HDD: Seagate 7200.10 320GB, 16MB, SATAII
Case: shg Case DeZen2, Black/Silver, 350Watt
RAM: Corsair Twin2X2048-5400C4, 4x1024MB

Printer/scanner:

HP Deskjet F2180

Everything works out of the box.

grss1982

July 18th, 2008, 11:08 AM

Ubuntu 8.04.1 (32-bit)

AMD Athlon64 X2 4000+
2GB Corsair Value Select DDR2 533Mhz (2x1GB)
256MB Inno3D Geforce 7300GT DDR3 (PCI-E)
MSI K9N Neo-F V3 (MS-7369) LINK: http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K9N_Neo-F_V3
80GB Western Digital SATA HDD + 250GB Western Digital SATA HDD
LG Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)[IDE]

NOTES:
* Everything works, although USB data transfer speeds are kinda slow. As noted in this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5396406

* AMD Cool N' Quiet works without any tweaking.

* Installed Nvidia Drivers (Version 173.14.05) through ENVY.

* I use Skype, and on this workstation I'm happy to report that the built-in sound card (input & output) works.

bhadotia

July 19th, 2008, 12:37 PM

Ubuntu Hardy Heron

Hp 530 notebook:
CPU:Intel Core Duo 1.66 GHz
RAM:1 GB RAM
Ethernet card:Intel 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller Mobile
Chipset (graphics):Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
HDD:TOSHIBA MK8037GS 80GB
Wireless card:Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 abg
Audio:Conexant HDA sound card (mono speaker)

Everything works OOB . The only (minor) problem is that the LED indicating wireless does not work.

SeanCondon

July 20th, 2008, 06:34 PM

Ubuntu Hardy Heron

Lenovo ThinkPad X61 Laptop 7675-7KU
4GB RAM
120GB HDD

Works very well OOTB. Wirless, Bluetooth, external monitor at 1680x1050, volume & brightness controls, suspend, hibernate, usb functions. Ubuntu is far better at recognizing this hardware, than OpenSuSE 10.3 had been. Well done Ubuntu team.

P.S. WLAN LED does not illuminate, but this is not an issue for me.

razorfistman132

July 21st, 2008, 12:13 AM

I am using the Newest Ubuntu Available at the moment.

I am running an old Gateway GP6-350, and the CD-ROM will not load the CD's that are Put into drive. This Problem started just after Ubuntu v.7.10 Install.

Now the CD-ROM will not load any cd's. I tried to reinstall Ubuntu, but the Ubuntu v.8.04 won't allow the disk to be read.

Please Help.

grss1982

July 21st, 2008, 05:54 AM

Ubuntu 8.04.1 (32-bit)

Intel Celeron D 3.06Ghz (533 FSB)
1GB Hynix DDR400 (1x1GB)
64MB Geforce MX-4000 (AGP)
AsRock 775i65gv LINK: http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=775i65gv
200GB Western Digital SATA HDD + 160GB Seagate PATA HDD + 120GB Seagate PATA HDD
Unbranded DVD-RW[IDE]

NOTES:

* Installed Nvidia Drivers through ENVY.

* User uses Skype, and on this workstation I'm happy to report that the built-in sound card (input & output) works.

* USB VOIP Phone (Description: CyberPhone K Model: v652skMLR) in conjunction with Skype works flawlessly in this setup.

Ubuntu 6.06.1 (32-Bit)

30+ Units of:
Intel Celeron D 3.06Ghz (533 FSB) or Intel Celeron 420 (1.6 Ghz & 800FSB)
1GB Hynix DDR400 (1x1GB)
64MB ASUS Geforce MX-4000 or 64MB Inno3D Geforce MX-440 or 64MB Inno3D GeForce MX-400 or 256MB Geforce FX-5500 (ALL AGP)
AsRock 775i65gv LINK: http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=775i65gv
80GB Seagate/Hitachi PATA HDD
Samsung/LG/Asus/Sony Combo Drive (CD-RW/DVD-ROM)[IDE]

NOTES:

* Only one system was installed with Ubuntu. After that one system had Ubuntu installed on it the rest of the units were cloned using the dd rescue option in Ghost 4 Linux. No problems were encountered in the cloning process.

* Installed Nvidia Drivers through Automatix2.

* Users use Skype, and on these workstation I'm happy to report that the built-in sound card (input & output) works.

odysseusjak

July 21st, 2008, 03:49 PM

Ubuntu 8.04.1

Gateway M-6843

* Intel Core2 Duo Mobile T5750 @ 2GHz
* Intel® GM965 chipset
* Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945 network connection (802.11a/b/g)
* 3GB PC2-5300 DDR2
* Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW
* 15.4" WXGA TFT-LCD @ 1280 x 800 resolution
* 160GB Serial ATA hard drive (5400 rpm)
* Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 with up to 384MB video memory * Intel high-definition audio (2-channel support)
* Built-in 1.3-megapixel webcam
* 5-in-1 digital media manager
* 3 high-speed USB 2.0 ports
* ExpressCard/54
* 10/100 Mbps Ethernet LAN with RJ-45 connector
* V.92 high-speed modem

Rhythmdvl

July 21st, 2008, 08:08 PM

Ubuntu Server 8.04.1, with the Desktop version overlayed afterwards (via sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop)
Asus P3B-F
Pentium III 550 (Katmai)
3dFX Voodoo 3500 in the AGP slot (both VGA and S-Video work)
2 X 256 DIMMS (can’t remember the vendor)
SoundBlaster Live! Value (EMU10k1)
Generic Sony DVD player (worked for install of the CD, have not tried a DVD in it)
PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host Controller (HD is plugged in here, not the EIDE port on the board)
Western Digital Caviar 80 GB drive (WD800JB-00CR)
National Semiconductor MacPhyter Ethernet Card
USB ports have read various flash drives

NOTES:
This is my first Linux box, built out of old components. It seem to be working fine (SAMBA file serving, Apache, MySQL serving, MyPHPAdmin), but being a noob, I can’t say if I’ve overlooked a test or something is not working right.

All parts have been stored in a basement for several years – no changes to them have been made (i.e., still the same CMOS battery). They are all circa 1999-2000. I have updated Ubuntu, but no individual drivers.

WestCoast

July 24th, 2008, 06:09 AM

Ubuntu 7.10 - the Gutsy Gibbon
PRINTER
Hewlett Packard
(HP) DJD 4260

Printer only (no fax, scan, or copy)
Prints Color and Black/White
Connection: USB
Ink cartridges: 2 (single black, single color combo) cost approx $30.00
Install: Put in ink cartridges and paper,
Plug in power cord.
Turn printer on. Let printer configure itself.
Connect USB cord.

Setup: Open the Printer Configuration Window: System -> Administration -> Printing
Select: New Printer
Enter devise URI as: HP DJD 4260 (press Forward)
Select Printer from Database: HP (forward)

At the New Printer configuration window
Select
MODEL: Deskjet D4200
Drivers: HP Deskjet D4200 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)
(Forward)
Printer Name: (should fill in automatically)
Description: HP DJD 4260
Printer Location: Anywhere
Note: Location must have an entry. It cannot be left blank.
Click Apply.

Once the system has finished configuring use the Policies, Access Control, Printer and Job Options tabs in the Printer Configuration Window to set personal preferences for printer policy, user sharing, paper type, print quality, and job control. Other than selecting printer sharing, paper type, print quality I used the default settings in this area.

To test the installation click on the Settings tab:
Select: Print Test Page. Print Self-Test Page and/or Clean Print Heads.

This little printer works GREAT! Couldn't beat the $39.00 sale cost either. I think the regular price was around 59 to 69 dollars.

Note: Couldn't get my $400.00 All-in-One Lexmark to work. Couldn't get my near $200.00 All-in-One Brother to work. Couldn't get my $50.00 Dell to work. But this little $39.00 HP DJD 4260 works like a charm, has a good print, and installed without a hitch.

ymo

July 26th, 2008, 11:47 AM

Ubuntu 8.04.1 Desktop
AOpen XC-Cube EZ18
AMD Sempron 2300+ (Socket A)
SAMSUNG SP1203N
LITE-ON DVDRW SHW-1635S
ASUS ATI 9600XT
AOC 2216Vw 1680x1050 LCD
HP LJ5L on SMC 4103P server

Only installed Ubuntu on it a few days ago (replacing Fedora Core 6 and Windows XP Pro). So far the only problem is resuming from hibernation - error message in bottom right of screen and windows have "noise" surrounding them. Hibernation under Fedora and XP worked fine.

markbuntu

July 27th, 2008, 02:15 AM

Ubuntu Hardy

SIIG Serial ATA PCI card

works OOB. You may have to move it to a different slot if you have a problem at first.

If you need some more SATA plugs this will work for you. I got about 200mbs transfer rate. A little slow but plenty fast for transferring files from my old windoze drive.

c2olen

July 28th, 2008, 02:53 PM

Ubuntu 08.04 on Notebook AMILO Si 2636
vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250
2 x 1024MB SODIMM (up to 2 x 2048MB)
Intel X3100 Graphics (128MB shared)
Intel 965 chipset
Sil 3531 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller
SATA Disk 250GB WDC WD2500BEVS-2
MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-875S (Writer)
82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
Intel PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
4-in-1 multicard reader.
Bluetooth
eSata

Everything worked in a single installation pass. No exceptions.
The graphics card is capable of running @1280x800 including all the eyecandy (compiz) you can throw at it, including the (built-in) HDMI connection to a HD television set.

Suspend to ram and suspend to disk also seem to work.

Firewire and webcam have not been tested (I do not use webcams) and I have no firewire equipment.

Also working: UMTS/3G (T-Mobile) though an OPTION expresscard.

barksten

July 29th, 2008, 07:43 PM

1)Version Of Ubuntu: 8.04
2)Type Of Hardware: Laptop
3)Hardware Maker: HP (Compaq)
4)Hardware Model: 6710b

Best linux dist tested so far. WLAN works with WPA after a visit to System/Hardware Drivers and an automatic installation (requires a wired connection) of fwcutter + BCM FW.
GFX and Keyboard works perfect.

habibabid

July 30th, 2008, 12:20 AM

ubuntu 7.10
intel p4 2.6 mhz
DDR 1GB
PCI Slot 2 NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
INTELCHIPSET 82801

I Cant Install Ubuntu.. its gettin stuck @ bootin screen
i cant use live cd / cant install it..
hav tired no splash.

need help ..
will b thankful ..

appier

July 30th, 2008, 12:56 AM

1)Version Of Ubuntu

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron

2)Type Of Hardware

Desktop PC Tower
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 1.80 Ghz
630 MB Memory

3)Hardware Maker

Compaq

4)Hardware Model

Evo D500

Result:

Enabled proprietary video driver. It works.

Jive Turkey

July 31st, 2008, 05:28 AM

My 2 month old newegg build:

Ubuntu 8.04 x86 and x64

Intel E8400 works 100%

Abit IP35 Pro works 100%

nvidia ECS 8800GT 512MB Fanless Works well in 32-bit with current driver from restricted driver manager, too much PITA installing 64bit driver though, some claim to have done it.

Seagate 500GB SATA2 HD works 100%

2*2GB A-DATA DDR2 800 works 100%

Lite On 16x SATA DVD-ROM works 100%

Lite On SATA DVD +/- DL Burner I havent tried dual-layer yet, it burns +/- DVD with no coasters yet after about 20 (didnt try it in 64 bit

EPSON Perfection 3200 PHOTO Works in SANE 100% in 32-bit

Cannon iP1800 PIXMA printer 32-bit only using third party repackaged driver from here http://hex1a4.net/

Overall impression, works great, 64-bit would have been nice, maybe with intrepid...

Sense

August 2nd, 2008, 03:23 PM

Except for the IDE devices the Asus M3N78-EH does work. It doesn't work with the 2.6.24-16 kernel that was shipped with 8.10. However, it does at least work with 2.6.24-20; I'm not sure about previous versions though.

jhenager

August 5th, 2008, 03:43 PM

jeff@jeff-desktop:/etc/sane.d$ uname -a
Linux jeff-desktop 2.6.24-18-generic #1 SMP Wed May 28 19:28:38 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Mustek 600 III EP Plus
http://penguin-breeder.org/sane/mustek_pp/
Make sure you follow the instructions carefully, including this line in the mustek_pp.conf file:
scanner Mustek-600-IIIEP * ccd300

Mine was set the the default parallel port address (0x378 ), and although the scanner was recognized, SANE couldn't use it. Changing that to "*" fixed the problem.

Edit #2 - just ran some updates which included the kernel. Maybe that date is when the kernel was compiled?
jeff@jeff-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux jeff-desktop 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 21:01:46 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

davidkl

August 8th, 2008, 07:58 AM

Ubuntu 8.04LTS
CPU: E6400 Intel Core Duo
M/B: Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3
RAM: 2GB Kingston
HDD 160GB SATA
DVDRW: Matshita SATA
Graphics: MSI 8800GTS320OC

Works fine out of the box. Video drivers installed using Envyng, compiz working fine, all effects enabled. Ubuntu restricted drivers for video card caused mis-detection of card and forced VESA mode.

*speakers do not turn off when headphones are plugged into front panel, but that's not a big issue.

Brux

August 12th, 2008, 09:16 AM

Hi guys,
I have just installed Ubuntu 8.04. I have got issues regarding hibernating/Suspend modes...i.e Resuming after a selection made to any of the two modes is resulting in certain messages.

I tried suspending...and this is the message i am getting
[103.736770] EXT3_fs error (device sdb1): ext3_find_entry: reading directory # 3088386 offset 0

Could someone help me out with this..:)
Regards
Brian

Regenpak

August 12th, 2008, 08:10 PM

Ubuntu 8.04 on Jetway 7F2WE1G Mini-ITX board. Worked OOB. Removed CPU fan, case fan is sufficient to keep CPU a few degrees above ambient (idle). This is my seventh Linux system so far, and caused the least issues or problems :mrgreen: That said, this box is very basic, just 80 gig SATA disk, no video effects. Just browsing and downloading. And webserver. This box replaced an aging Via Epia (800 MHz C3) which was getting too slow. The Epia ran 7.04 with also few issues.

AceRimmer

August 15th, 2008, 02:59 PM

Ubuntu 8.04

AMD Opteron 165 1.8Ghz (x2), 2GB PC3200 DDR, Epox 9na3j+ motherboard, ATI Radeon x800GTO AGP 256 MB, Creative Soundblaster 24Bit, 2x 750GB SATA Samsugn HD.

It runs fine except for some video issues, I get frame tearing in playback and when I run an app that does 3d acceleration I often get flickering.

marine63

August 16th, 2008, 11:54 AM

hp dv6700t 15.4" notebook
works great
the screen and wireless worked without fail :D
intel 2.0ghz
2gb ram
160gb hdd
nvidia 8400m gs
intel prowireless 3something
12 cell battery
everything worked well even vista sp1 o.O

PHATSPEED7x

August 17th, 2008, 11:11 AM

Compaq Persario 5003US desktop.
933mhz Pentium III processor.
384MB RAM.
80GB HD.
CD R/RW.
17" CRT montior.
MI internet USB keyboard.
MI usb wired optical mouse.
Ubuntu 8.04 OS.

Works great! Before Ubuntu the computer had Window's ME OS, and didn't work half the time. After upgrading the RAM so I could install from a live CD the computer has worked like brand new. Saved me $$$ that I would of used to buy a new desktop. Everything works awesome. Could max out my RAM at 512MB for a little faster performance.

SunLizard

August 19th, 2008, 05:24 AM

HP Pavilion dv6000
Intel Core 2DuoT7500(2.2GHz/4MB L2)
2GB DDR2 Ram
383MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
Intel(R) PRO/Wireless4965AGN w/bluetooth
120GB 5400RPM SATA HD

Dual boot for now due to a CAD program I use in college that requires M$.
I also have a Xerox Phaser 6180 that Ubuntu recognized right off the bat with no problem.

This machine and Hardy seem to be a great match. I have tried various flavors of Linux in the past and always grew tired of configuring hardware. It is because of this match that I have become a Ubuntu follower. I was amazed how easy it was to get a wireless connection with Linux or that it was even possible considering my past experience.
I would definitely recommend this laptop and Ubuntu.
On a side note I spent days and days trying to get mac mini loaded with Linux with no joy. It has 10.3 loaded and the firmware that just will not coroperate. After the ease of the install on this HP I was a little spoiled and have since sworn off Apple because they now seem just like M$ and just want your money. Plus Ubuntu is now making life for the beginning programmer and want to be Linux user a whole lot easier.

wizardfait

August 19th, 2008, 06:07 AM

Ubuntu 8.04.1

HP Pavilion ZE4800 (Actually ZE8405US)
2.1 Ghz AMD Athlon XP 2800+
768 MB Kingston PC2700 RAM (1X512 1X256)
60GB HDD
ATI Radeon 320M IGP (A.K.A. ATI Radeon U1)
Broadcom 4306 802.11b/g wireless card
MacPhyter LAN adapter
Conexant AC-Link Audio/Modem card

Everything works Out of the box, with exception of some errors at boot that can be ignored, and the obvious Broadcom 4306 issues.

As for the Broadcom 4306, simply using NDISwrapper fixed my problems.

kamolt

August 19th, 2008, 05:24 PM

Ubuntu-8.04.1-desktop-i386
motherboard
Asus
A8N32SLI deluxe

Ubuntu hangs on installation or start up.
message : Busybox v 1.1.3
(initramfs)

This problem was solved by adding the following to boot options :

all_generic_ide floppy=off

First I erased "---" at the end of the boot line.

Asus A8N32 sli works fine now with Ubuntu 8.04

thetwilighthowl

August 22nd, 2008, 04:43 PM

On a Sony Vaio SZ Series (VGN-SZ691N/X)
Computer Type:Notebook
Running Ubuntu 8.04

# Sound System:Sony® Sound Reality™
# Multimedia Card Reader:Memory Stick DUO™ with MagicGate® functionality ExpressCard™/34 Slot: 5-in-1 Memory Card Adaptor (VGP-MCA20A) supporting Memory Stick®, Memory Stick PRO™, Secure Digital, xD-Picture Card, and MultiMediaCard (MMC) PCMCIA (Type II/Type I card slot with CardBus support)
# Action Buttons:S1, S2 (programmable) - Untested
# Wireless On/Off, stamina/speed hybrid graphics switch
# Security:Trusted Platform Module (TPM), TCG Ver.1.2 compliant Biometric Fingerprint Sensor - Not Working
# Chipset:Mobile Intel GM965 Express Chipset
# Interface:VGA out w/ Smart Display Sensor
# Processor:NVIDIA® GeForce® 8400M GS GPU (Works Great) and Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (works, but not so well)
# Technology:Hybrid Graphics System
# Video RAM:831MB Total Available Graphics Memory13 (NVIDIA® GeForce® 8400 GS GPU) and 358MB Total Available Graphics13 (Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100)
# Capacity:250GB2
# Impact Protection:G-Sensor™ Shock Protection - Hard Disk Drive Protection - Untested
# Interface-2:Serial ATA
# Speed:5400rpm
# Camera:Built-in Camera and Microphone - Not working
# Keyboard:QWERTY (86 keys with 3mm stroke and 19.05mm pitch)
# Pointing Device:Electro-Static touch pad
# DC-In:1
# Ethernet Connection (s):1
# Express Card™ Slot:1
# Headphone Jack:1
# i.LINK® Interface:1 (4-pin IEEE 1394) interface6
# Memory Stick® Media Slot:1
# Microphone Input:1
# Modem Jack:1
# Port Replicator Connector(s):1 (Bottom)
# USB Port(s):2 (2.0 compliant)
# VGA Output(s):1
# Installed:2GB (1GBx2) PC2-5300
# Maximum:4GB15
# Speed-2:667MHz
# Type:DDR2
# Bluetooth® Technology:Integrated Bluetooth® Technology5
# Ethernet Protocol:Fast Ethernet (RJ-45)
# Ethernet Speed:10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T
# Modem Type:Integrated V.92/V.90 Modem (RJ-11)
# Wireless LAN:Intel® PRO/Wireless 4965AGN Network Connection (802.11a/b/g/n)3
# Wireless WAN:Sprint® Mobile Broadband service1819
# DVD±RW:Yes4 (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/DVD-RAM)
# Battery Type:Standard Capacity Lithium-ion Battery
# Estimated Battery Life:3 to 6 hours7 (Standard Battery)
# Front Side Bus Speed:800MHz
# L2 Cache:4MB
# Speed-3:2.41GHz1
# Technology-2:Intel® Centrino® Duo Processor Technology
# Type-2:Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T8100

Right out of the box I popped in the 8.04 LTS cd and got everything working but the DVD player, camera/mic, and the little memory stick Pro DUO reader. I think that it's recognizing the hardware for the fingerprint scanner, but there's no software to tell it to do anything yet.

exowraith

August 26th, 2008, 04:54 AM

ubuntu 8.04 x64

AMD Athlon X2 5200+
MSI K9N SLI Platinium
ASUS 7950GT 512MB SLI
Corsair Value Select 4GB PC5300
Creative X-Fi ExtremeGamer
Samsung 16X LightScribe DVD-RW DL
TDK 16X DVD-RW
Western Digital 2500KS 250GB
Western Digital 5000AAKS 500GB
Western Digital 5000AAKS 500GB

Creative X-Fi not working. the rest are good.

ubuntu 8.04 i386

Fujitsu S6410
2Ghz Centrino Duo
2GB RAM
Intel Express 965M

Only issue here is the brightness is very dim even with xbacklight at 100%, my brightness applet is not working, one red X there. Fn+F keys dun work to adjust brightness but work for volume and mute.

distrachi

August 27th, 2008, 10:59 AM

Ubuntu-8.04.1-desktop-i386
Acer
Notebook
Acer Aspire 5583WXMi

Processor Core 2 Duo
Processor speed 1.66GHz
Amt of RAM 512 MB (max 4096 MB)
Hard drive 120 GB
Optical drive DVD Super Multi
Graphics hardware Nvidia GeForce Go 7300
Diagonal screen size 14.1 inch
Wireless LAN 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g
Webcam Yes

Notes:
Could not enable hardware 3D graphics, would cause frequent freezes and lockups, found the solution to problem at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24/+bug/164589. Solution prevents the graphics card from going into power saving mode so battery life is not very good.

Although the wifi button works, the wifi LED doesn't turn on.

VGA-out has some problems. The screen on external monitor blanks out (turns black) when i move the mouse. When I stop moving the mouse, the screen comes back.

Everything else works well:
1. Audio (needed to play around with mixer to get internal mic to work)
2. Ethernet/Wireless
3. Memory/SD card
4. DVD/CD Read/burn
5. Suspend/hibernate/power saving mode (dim display)
6. hardware buttons (volume control, brightness, email, web)
7. Webcam

Bluetooth hardware button appears to work but I have not tested if it actually connects to bluetooth devices. Built-in modem was not tested.

New_Guy08

August 28th, 2008, 08:18 PM

Ok I just got my beast built about a week ago and everything is running fine after updates etc.

Mobo:GIGABYTE MA78GM-S2H
CPU: AMD X2 5400 BE
VIDEO: ASUS EAH3450 After ATI restricted drivers dl and install Compiz works great!
PSU:Rosewell 550w
COOLING:Rosewell Z3
RAM:OCZ Reaper 2x 2Gb 800mhz
Harddrive: Seagate IDE 7200rpm 80GB
Keyboard & mouse: Logitech S510; volume controller works on it I'm happy!:)

Bruce S

August 31st, 2008, 09:02 AM

latinoheat69

September 7th, 2008, 06:45 AM

DELL Inspiron 1420
Intel GMA X3100
Intel 3945 a/b/g
SATA 120 GB HDD
USB Belkin Mouse (I don't like the trackpad)
2 GB Ram
Core 2 Duo 1.5 GHz

Ken4000

September 10th, 2008, 07:34 AM

Please Only List
1)
Ubuntu 8.04.1 (Works out of the box!)

2)
1,7GHz Intel Centrino, 100Gb Hitachi hdd, 2Gb Kingston ram, Intel Wireless Card, ATi Radeon Mobility 9600 Turbo Pro 128Mb graphic card, 15,4" 1680x1050 TFT.

3)
Dell

4)
Inspiron 8600

Casper Hansen

September 10th, 2008, 08:15 PM

Laptop:

Ubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy Heron

Lenovo 3000 N200

CPU: Intel Pentium Dual-Core 1,86 GHz
RAM: 2 GB
HDD: 160 GB

Sound fix: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/Lenovo3000N200_0769B2G

I haven't tried SD-reader and fingerprint scanner, but other hardware works great. Actually the wireless is better than Vista. In Vista I could reach 60%, in Ubuntu I reach 86 - 95%!

Predator106

September 11th, 2008, 12:04 AM

OS#: Ubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy Heron kernel version: 2.6.24-21-generic

Memory: 2GB DDR2 Kingston Ram

Graphics:Integrated Intel seemed to work fine the little bit I tested it. I also have an XFX Nvidia 8600 GT. It works beautifully in here.

CPU: Intel Core2Duo E6420 @ 2.21 ghz (I believe it is overclocked a tiny bit, stock is 2.13 I think)

Motherboard: ASUS P5B-VM SE

Sound:Integrated works fine, but to achieve 5.1 digital (I actually think I can only get 5.0 digital (no center)), it requires a bit of tweaking, but basically works fine, Turtle beach Riveira.

No problems, runs perfectly other than what's noted. I did notice one weird thing, however, after resuming from standby in Hardy(by turning on my computer), my CD Drive will eject immediately and then go back in real quick. I have no idea what this is caused by, maybe a BIOS setting or BIOS confliction? I don't know, but it scared the **** out of me the first time it happened, because I have one of those case doors, so it flung it open.

I also used 2 adapters to convert 2 old hard drive from IDE to the SATA motherboard, works fine with every OS, so it most certainly wouldn't be prob with Ubuntu.

thepizzaman

September 11th, 2008, 12:47 AM

Ok Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron 32 bit (soon to add 64)
Acer Aspire M1201
works with SATA not ide
these are the exact specs from tigerdirect
+ ATI Readon HD3450, zonet ZEW1602, and a 500 gig SATA II Seagate harddrive

Processor Brand: AMD
Processor Class: Athlon 64 X2
Processor Number: 5000
Processor Speed: 2.60GHz
Memory Type: DDR2
Memory Size: 1GB
Total Memory: 2.0GB
Memory Speed: DDR2 800 (PC2-6400)
Interface: SATA II
Capacity: 320GB
Speed: 7,200RPM
Optical Drive Type: DVD±RW/-RAM Dual Layer
Audio Description: Integrated Audio
Channels: 7.1
Graphics Description: Integrated Graphics
GPU/VPU: ATI Radeon 2100
Video Interface: DVI
VGA (15-Pin D-Sub)
Maximum Resolution: NA
Communications Description: Integrated LAN Support
Interface Type: RJ-45 - Ethernet Connector
Data Transfer Rate: 1000Mbps 10Mbps 100Mbps
Communications Description: 56Kbps PCI Modem
Interface Type: RJ-11 - Phone Connector
Data Transfer Rate: up to 56Kbps
Protocols: V.92

zr0gee

September 18th, 2008, 07:12 PM

1) Ubuntu 8.04(Hardy Heron) 64bit
2) Motherboard
3) Asus
4) Striker II NSE (chipset: Nvidia nForce 790i SLI)

Worked out of the box for me. Sound, networking etc.

I spent a good amount of time searching for other people who might have tried this particular motherboard (or rather, the chipset) in Ubuntu, but I was unsuccessful.

muanis

September 19th, 2008, 03:46 PM

Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 on HP Compaq 6515b

Wifi working
Bluetooth working
PCCard not tested
CardReader not tested
Fingerprintscanner not tested
Sound working

botulismo

September 21st, 2008, 12:04 AM

1. Ubuntu Gutsy and Hardy
32 bit fails to start properly and 64 bit won't load at all (on a dual core Athlon 64 5000+)
2. Motherboard
3. ASUS
4. M2N-MX SE

Back to Windows for now... :(

driven1

September 22nd, 2008, 06:45 PM

I just put this together this weekend. My first build :)

Hardy Heron 8.04 amd64

GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM-S2H 780G HDMI
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Brisbane 2.8GHz
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 4-4-4-4-12
ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 64 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler
LG 22X DVD±R IDE Model
HITACHI Deskstar P7K500 500GB SATA
TRENDnet TEW-443PI PCI 2.2 Wireless
ANTEC Sonata III

Everything works pretty much out of the box. Internal speaker doesn't work. Front audio jack works fine. I haven't tested the rear. Everything else seems to work so far. Have not tested the DVI/HDMI ports yet. Going to add a Radeon 3450 video card for future Crossfire (I also want s-video out for my tv).

packrat

September 24th, 2008, 03:02 PM

New Build, MSI K9N SLI V2 mobo...Ubuntu v8.04

MSI K9N SLI V2 mobo
AMD Phenom X4 Processor 9550 2.2 cpu
GeFORCE 8500GT Graphics Card
4x 1 gig Corsair RAM sticks
500 gig Seagate Barracuda
Sony DRU-V200A DVD+-R
NZXT Hush Case
Corsair VX450W PS

Installed from first try...no problems...components work...

shockdesign

September 25th, 2008, 12:37 AM

Hey guys,

Okay new simple desktop.

Asus M2N-MX-SE Motherboard
2Gb Kingston DDR2 (running in single channel mode)
Asus EAH3450 (ATI HD3450)
Running Hardy 8.0.4.1

Issues with the ATI propriety driver, if I install it and run with it, my desktop just freezes and thats it. I can reset back to not using the driver and it works fine, albiet slow.

Odd too because I've read reports on this topic stating it works fine, heh :) Run memcheck too and it comes up good!

soloman498

September 28th, 2008, 06:17 AM

Ubuntu 8.04
H.P. Deskjet F2180 all in one Prints,Scans and copies,no driver problems at all.:)

ju2wheels

September 28th, 2008, 02:26 PM

Works perfectly on Intrepid 64bit, video card was plug n play with nvidia drivers automatically installed.

MSI P7N SLI-FI 750i SLI Chipset LGA775
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 512MB 16X PCI Express
Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz 1066FSB 8MB L2 Cache 64-bit
4gb PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory

murphykieran

October 1st, 2008, 07:23 PM

Asus Eee PC 904 netbook
Ubuntu 8.04

All the basics worked after installation apart from ethernet and wireless. I had to download and install the latest Madwifi drivers and then enable them via System>Administration>Hardware Drivers to get the wireless working and it's working fine now. Ethernet is not working but I haven't tried to get it working yet.

I haven't tried connecting a display via the VGA port or using the microphone jack yet.
update: Audio jack works fine with headphones.

Canon iP2000 inkjet printer
Canon CanoScan LiDE20 flatbed scanner
Both of these just worked in both 7.10 and 8.04
No setup was necessary, I just connected them to the PC, and printing via all applications I tried and scanning via xscan worked fine.

Creative ZEN 8Gb
Didn't work automatically in 7.10, I found instructions here (http://tiagoboldt.net/blog/creative-zen-linux/) that worked.
Worked automatically in 8.04 just by plugging it in and opening Banshee to import songs.

tydfil

October 7th, 2008, 07:20 PM

Intrepid
XFX 8200 Mobo
Integrated sound and video
4GB DDR2 800
80Gig and 40Gig Drives

8200 chipset is a yet unsupported (xorg error log)
Everything works but grapphics will only boot into low graphics mode as not devices are detected.

nvidia driver can be be installed from CLI but it is unstable. Flicker, which appears to be an overlay of the background colour of the menu panel extending 2 thirds the way down the screen.

dartrod

October 15th, 2008, 07:21 PM

I am looking for a recommendation for a LCD Monitor that is compatible with the following configuration:

AMD Athelon 64 LE 1640 2.6 GHZ 45 watt L2-1MB AM2
AMD Athelon 64 original Stock Fan and Heat sink
Kingston DDR2 PC2-5400 1GN/667 MHz
BIOSTAR MCP6P-M2 (NVIDIA GF6150, SATAII, RAID, DDR2-800
NVIDIA GeForce 6150 GPU Memory share up to 512MB
On board High Definition Audio
On board Network Card
450W ATX Power Supply
Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB 7200RPM SATA
LG DVD-RAM GSA-H55N
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Thank you

RSW

Ter Rymon

October 17th, 2008, 01:48 AM

Converted an Win98 system two days ago with 8.04 LTS Live CD. I knew the system well, I built it from parts back in 1990.

Intel SE440BX-2 Motherboard with Math Co-Processor installed next to Intel PIII 450Mhz CPU. 384 Ram (maxxed out)
Yamaha DS-XG built on the motherboard provides great sound.
ATI Rage Pro graphics card (release 6112) the stable one.
Seagate 6 Gig Hard Drive (that was as big as I could get back then... Yes it's slow.)
Memorex 48x CDR (burns DV-CDs)
and a
HP CD-writer Plus 9100 (burns CDs that even MS-DOS understands)
I have a brand new Linksys Ethernet card (there wasn't one originally)
And I have a old Creative ModemBlaster 56 II ISA voice/fax/modem.

It actually runs faster NOW than when I put it together.
Oh and as an added bonus I can actually get it to sync with MyPDA (an old Palm IIIe)

I never could get the call attendant software or the caller id to work on the modem (Now the caller ID works, but the fax will ONLY send not Receive.

I'm happy enough I might break down and buy a different modem (probably used because I need the older chipsets so they talk nice to my two MinoltaFax 's (the 2600 one is connected to a Netgear print server.)

Oh and I installed "wine" so I don't have to give up cold turkey on that huge library of Win98 software. http://ubuntuforums.org/images/smilies/new_popcornsmiley.gif

Therion

October 18th, 2008, 12:08 AM

1)Version Of Ubuntu: Hardy Heron - 8.04
2)Type Of Hardware: Printer
3)Hardware Maker: HP / Hewlett Packard
4)Hardware Model: Photosmart D7460

Plug 'n' Play with a USB connection. No muss, no fuss, no bother. Awesome printer.

Naiki Muliaina

October 18th, 2008, 01:51 PM

Ubuntu 8.04 (and many derivatives mint, ozos, xubuntu and more)

Denver 10 Motherboard
Intel E1200 Processor
Radeon x1950 Graphics card
2gb Ram (unsure of brand)
400 watt Power Supply

Only setting up i had to do was the graphics (its an ATI, no suprises hehe). Even then it took 2 minutes, if that, following the Ubuntu/ATI wiki.

Never had any problems what so ever, nice little setup.

Cyberponcho

October 20th, 2008, 11:54 PM

Reporting a HP Compaq nc4200 running 7.10 Gutsy, everything worked out of the box, hardware profile will be posted.

gmacor2

October 22nd, 2008, 10:26 AM

Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04
Film Scanner
Minolta
Dimage Scan Dual 11

blakwolf

October 30th, 2008, 12:10 PM

Version: Kubuntu 8.04 LTS
PC: HP Pavilion ZE4355EA (notebook) 512MB RAM, 40 GB HD swap partition 1.5GB, ATI radeon Mobility U1
BIOS: KA.M 1.60
Installation was fine, but no suspend/hybernate

Workaround:
1 - kernel command line option "acpi_sleep=s3_bios"
2 - apt-get install powernowd
3 - HYBERNATE = platform in /etc/default/acpi-support

fixed hybernate, suspend to ram working but the PC shutdown when trying to go back.

Tried uswsusp, no change.

Probably buggy bios, decompiling/recompiling with INTEL iasl gives 3 warnings 1 error, I wasn't able to find a workaround

Rodney9

October 31st, 2008, 12:07 PM

Asus P5Q-Pro M/B
Intel E8400 CPU
Nvidia 9600GT Video Card
GSkill DDR2 800Mhz 8Gb Ram

Ubuntu 8.10 64bit Desktop.
Sound, network and video all working perfectly.

Hadraniel

November 2nd, 2008, 12:16 PM

Ubuntu 8.10

Board: Gigabyte GA-MA78GPM-DS2H (http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2859)
CPU: AMD 4850e (http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUDetail.aspx?id=426) (Chipset AMD780G)

Graphics: on-board ATI Radeon HD3200 (RS780)
I shared this problem (click!) (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6030745&postcount=10) first, even with 8.10 final (not 8.10rc), and fiddled a lot with drivers. Good thing is, if things go wrong, revert to standard xorg.conf or restore backup, you'll always have highres framebuffer graphics and never drop to textmode or lowres available (like in early Linux days)
Must read Wiki-pages: RadeonDriver (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver), RadeonHD (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonHD), RadeonHD (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI) (fglrx)
For ATI-newbies (like myself): yes, there are three ATI-drivers. Two Open-Source, one from ATI itself (fglrx). Good start to aquire knowledge about differences: Radeon vs. RadeonHD Drivers In H1'08 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radeon_vs_radeonhd&num=1). And there are some tons of forum discussions and articles around, everywhere.
At some point, the Ubuntu-On-board fglrx drivers worked out: enable restricted drivers, activate - you win.

drawback: even with the latest 8.10-bundled catalyst 8.54-drivers, Hardware-Accelleration seems to be limited or instable. I tried EVE-Online for curiosity, and it does not work (uses some customized cedega).

Current status for me: 2D and softrendering fine, 3D .. well .. I gotta try some Linux shooters.

Sound: on-board (southbridge SB700)
Works out of the box. 5.1 surround, mic. Don't have working SP/DIF-out yet, though. My AC3-Decoder gets some Dolby Stereo signal, but is quiet :-(

DVB-T/USB2: MSI Digi Vox mini II (chipset em28xx)
Running and shows up as restricted driver, just like the ATI fglrx drivers. Takes some manual work, though. You wanna read: MSI DigiVox mini II V3.0 (http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/MSI_DigiVox_mini_II_V3.0), em28xx driver compilation in Intrepid (Beta) (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=956353&highlight=dvb-t+usb), DVB-T USB-Devices (http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_USB_Devices) and probably use the ubuntu installation package from here (http://www.digittrade.de/shop/shop_content.php/coID/9) (I suceeded using the guides at the given URLs).
Switching channels regularly results in graphics going mad. Restarting the TV app is a workaround. Probably due to beta-fglrx-drivers (see previous paragraph on on-board-graphics).

ruff

November 2nd, 2008, 12:28 PM

1)Version Of Ubuntu: 8.10
2)Type Of Hardware: Digital TV Tuner Card (DVB-T)
3)Hardware Maker: Leadtek
4)Hardware Model: Winfast DTV2000 H

Worked out of the box. Installed Ubuntu 8.10 and then installed the Digital Television apps from the Add/Remove applications. This installed MeTV and everything autotuned and worked perfectly.

Also this is the first verion of Ubuntu to recognise the built in LAN controller on my Asus P5Q motherboard.

sandy8925

November 7th, 2008, 02:27 PM

Version: Ubuntu 8.04
Motherboard: KOBIAN KOBP4M266A
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz (400 Mhz FSB)
RAM: 256 MB DDR-SDRAM (266 Mhz)
Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce 6600 GT (AGP 4X)
Hard Disks: 1)Seagate 40 GB hard disk (master)
2)Samsung 40 GB hard disk (slave)
DVD Drive: Samsung DVD-RW/+RW drive

mannaa

November 8th, 2008, 04:48 AM

FSC amilo pi3540
Ubuntu 8.10 32 bit
Intel P8400 - ok
webcam - ok
Synatic - ok
intel 5100 wifi - ok
etc etc

Geforce 9300m, needed property driver, then ok

Conclusion - ok =)

pablolie

November 8th, 2008, 09:30 PM

Ubuntu 8.10 (Standard 64-bit Installation CD)

SG33G5 Mini Desktop with
- Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
- 4 GB of DDR2 RAM
- Asus EN8500GT Silent

http://us.shuttle.com/barebone/Models/sg33g5_pro.html

Note: Installation was a total breeze, pop in standard CD and let it install itself. In fact I would say Ubuntu was easier to install than Vista Ultimate 64 bit!

moTaro

November 9th, 2008, 05:39 PM

Ubuntu 8.10

Hardware: Notebook Lenovo R61

Fully Compatibile.

I had to use wicd instead of Network manager applet, rather than that it's all ok.

sledge73

November 9th, 2008, 06:27 PM

compaq presario c500, 1.6ghz celeron m, cpu 1.5gb ram, ubuntu hardy, everything works out of the box. also lite-on dx-20a4pu external dvd burner plug n play!!

merdenoms

November 10th, 2008, 01:04 AM

Ubuntu Version: 8.10

Hardware: MSI VR 330 Notebook

Works perfectly! No problems

am7146

November 10th, 2008, 02:06 AM

Ubuntu 8.10
IBM Desktop w/USB 2.0 ports

Two webcams worked great straight out of the box:

Logitech Quickcam Communicate MP/S5500
Logitech Quickcam Pro for Notebooks (2007 model)

Did a fresh install, plugged them in, /dev/video* just showed up and worked right out of the box with luvcview and motion after doing an apt-get install of both progs.

Pro has better quality image.

Andy-

Daktyls

November 10th, 2008, 02:26 AM

Ubuntu 8.04 Linux Kernel 2.6.24
USB All-in-one Printer
Epson
Stylus CX9400

Works fine when using the following driver:

CUPS+Gutenprint(OpenPrinting LSB 3.2) v5.2.1 Simplified

and in the Printer Configuration menu under "Printer Options" with the Colormode set to "CMY Color".

Duroon

November 10th, 2008, 08:32 AM

I just (a few hours ago) bought a brand new Acer Aspire 6930. Dumped Vista in favor of Intrepid and everything works right after install, wireless, compiz, sound, everything. Easiest install I have ever done.

PGHammer

November 11th, 2008, 07:27 AM

Hardware: Wireless Ethernet (USB)
Manufacturer: SMC Networks (http://www.smc.com)
Product: SMC EZ Connect g

Surprise of surprises, all I had to do was point it at the folder containing the Vista drivers, and it configured itself with little prompting; all I was left to do was configure the type of security (WPA) and entering the passphrase. Notice that I did it in the same way I would do it in Windows - while the system was running.

Shocking.

immerohnegott

November 11th, 2008, 11:40 PM

Custom built machine:

Motherboard: Asus P5B (Intel P965 Express + ICH8 )
--onboard sound and ethernet work out of the box, southbridge allows for
--AHCI HDD operation, this works as well. Third party IDE/SATA controller --works, but is buggy with IDE drives (have disabled, using SATA
--DVD-Burner)

CPU - Intel Pentium D 930 (overclocked to 3.75ghz) - recognized fully.

Audio - Creative Audigy SE - works using ALSA CA0106 driver.

Video - BFG-made Nvidia GeForce 7950GTOC - works out of the box with
--xorg driver "nv". works well after enabling the proprietary driver
--in the "Hardware Drivers" dialogue (have also used Envy before with no issues)

Other notes - have been using Ubuntu (tried all flavors) on this machine since I believe 6.10, with very few issues.

PhantomGhost

November 12th, 2008, 06:15 AM

Need a wireless card for your desktop computer or HTPC?

Try the D-Link DWA-556. It's a PCI Express desktop adapter. Works in x1, x4, x8, or x16 slots. Supports Wireless N (draft) and of course Wireless G.

http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=549

This card worked beautifully for me out of box. No configuration was required. None. Even the Live CD was able to make use of it. It connects to wireless networks in seconds. Probably the most flawless piece of expansion hardware in my setup. I'm thrilled with it.

It is also FAST, even with my wireless G router. Web pages load seemingly faster than on my other computers which are hooked up via Ethernet and run Windows.

I'm running the latest version of Ubuntu - Intrepid Ibex.

Peyote Coyote

November 12th, 2008, 10:17 PM

PC104 Advantech Geode LX800 machine:

Advantech PCM-3353, 500 Mhz, 1Gb

Runs with 2.6.27 Xubuntu nicely, and also
with ACPI disabled in BIOS & kernel args

We also had luck cross-compiling the

APEX STX104 16bit ADC drivers & code
and
Symmetric Research PAR8CH 24bit ADC drivers & code

Only issue is that it will not mount USB memory sticks on reboot.

Still have not confirmed: watchdog, compact flash interfaces

Thanks for getting these LX800 patches in. Now we can dump Fedora!

PC

HDTimeshifter

November 13th, 2008, 10:39 PM

Asus P5Q-Pro M/B
Intel E8400 CPU
Nvidia 9600GT Video Card
GSkill DDR2 800Mhz 8Gb Ram

Ubuntu 8.10 64bit Desktop.
Sound, network and video all working perfectly.

Have you turned on hibernation? I have nearly the same setup, but with an Intel Q6600 CPU and 2x2GB dual channel Corsair DDR2/800 MHz RAM. I've been having bootup and hardware problems that I suspect are related to power management. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6154425#post6154425

slowlap

November 15th, 2008, 02:33 PM

Ubuntu 8.11
Dell Vostro 1400 wifi
Cannot get printer to print anything through wifi.
Printer is Lexmark Z2490 wifi

AllenGG

November 16th, 2008, 03:19 PM

Olivier2371

November 16th, 2008, 11:55 PM

Hello everybody,

Acer Aspire 9302 AWSMI

specifications:

AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology MK38 (2.2 GHZ, 512KB L2 cache)
17" WXGA+ Acer CrystalBrite LCD
up to 384 MB NVIDIA Geforce Go Xpress 6100 TurboCache
120 GB HDD
DVD-Super Multi double layer
4 GB DDR2 Memory
802.11 b/g Wireless Lan
Mini pci extension slot for BlueTooth card
Windows Vista premium & Ubuntu 8.04 Lts

FULLY COMPATIBLE

Good luck to all.

00b00nt00

November 17th, 2008, 01:50 AM

Compaq Armada E500

Pentium III @ 800Mhz

512MB RAM

ATI Rage graphics

Ubuntu 8.10 works well, just don't expect any 3D graphics acceleration.

nickcannard

November 17th, 2008, 07:28 PM

Dell Inspiron 8600
intrepid 8.10
Fully compatible

Pentium M 1.7ghz
1gb ram
Nvidia Geforce Fx Go 5650
Sigmatel audio (snd_intel8x0)
Alps Touchpad
Everything seems to work perfectly.

ONE COMPATIBILTY PROBLEM:
The Fn key combined with the up/down arrow keys used to adjust screen brightness causes the window manager and the panel at the top to FAIL TO OPEN, they highlight but will not pull down, any windows currently open can not be moved.

szale9001

November 20th, 2008, 07:26 PM

Using 8.10
Mobo: Intel (POS)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPUE8400@ 3.00GHz, OK, slightly faster than my AMD 64 Athlon at 5yrs old.
Video, NVidia 9800GT works OOB
Sound: Sound Blaster Live 5.1 works well, must load drivers.

You said the 9800GT works OOB for you. You mean 100% with 3d acceleration and all? I was thinking of picking one up but just want to make sure its fully functional in 8.10

AllenGG

November 21st, 2008, 04:04 PM

RE: NVidia 9800GT , note that I loaded the restricted drivers, version 177

szale9001

November 21st, 2008, 04:31 PM

RE: NVidia 9800GT , note that I loaded the restricted drivers, version 177

Yea, I had thought so. I have heard a lot of people had trouble installing those in intrepid (but I'm not sure if those people were upgrading from Hardy). It worked for you no problem? I am assuming you installed the Driver from the repos/Restricted Drivers screen.

itsStephen

November 23rd, 2008, 11:43 AM

Tried with both Ubuntu and Kubuntu 8.10

Asus M2N-MX SE Plus motherboard works. I'm really not sure what graphics chipset it has. Aparantly the geforce 6100 which it is meant to have doesn't work. I got it working and installed the proprietary nvidia driver and it says I have the 6150SE.
Samsung HD161HJ 160gb hard drive... works. I've got Kubuntu installed on it now.
HP DVD-1070 DVD drive works. It has lightscribe but I haven't got around to playing with that yet.
AMD Athlon 64 LE-1620
Patriot 2GB kit Signature line ddr2 800mhz ram works fine with it.

I only built this computer yesterday by the way, have to see how it holds up.

antoni2

November 24th, 2008, 12:18 AM

Xubuntu 8.10
Compatible with Asus Eee PC 1000H. Originally came with Windows XP installed. Works fine in dual boot mode, with Xubuntu installed in a new partition.

Only problem found was Wifi not detected. It is a

802.11n Wireless LAN Card
from Ralink Technology, Corp
Version: 1.1.2.0
Windows file for the driver: C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\rt2860.sys

You just download and install (right button click) the debian package rt2860sta-dkms_1.8LK_all.deb available from:

http://www.mediafire.com/?jfrgzemgnjz

and everything is Ok !

glenngds2007

November 26th, 2008, 04:22 AM

Brother HL2140 works if you specify HL2060 instead of the HL2170 which the printer setup recommends.

seiserres

November 30th, 2008, 02:10 AM

I installed Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid ibex) via Wubi installer in a Satellite A300-1II laptop (Wubi, as you sure know, allows you install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application). Restricted Drivers Manager did not work out for the graphic card so Drivers for Ati 3470 were downloaded from ATI http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html and installed manually following the procedure described in http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Intrepid_Installation_Guide#Installing_the_ restricted_drivers_manually
I hope it helps other Satellite A300 users.

Regards,

Characteristics

Processor:Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T5800
Processor Type:Core™2 Duo
Processor Number:T5800
Processor Speed:2.0GHz
Front Side Bus:800MHz
Memory Size:4096MB
Memory Speed:PC6400 DDR2 800MHz SDRAM
Display Size:15.4" widescreen
Display Type:WXGA with TruBrite® Technology
Display Resolution:1280x800, Supports 720p content
Graphics Engine:Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
Graphics Memory:128MB-1294MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory
Hard Drive Size:320GB
Hard Drive Speed:5400rpm
Secondary Hard Drive Size:No Secondary Hard Drive Installed
Optical Drives: DVD-SuperMulti (+/-R double layer)

vishalrao

December 1st, 2008, 03:25 PM

Quick success report:

See https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-in/2008-December/004358.html

"[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 works very well on Acer Aspire 4730z laptop"

Hello,

Just another post (so that others might find it by search) about an
Ubuntu smooth run.
Will be useful I guess for anyone looking to purchase an
Ubuntu-friendly laptop...

Installed Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex (amd64 desktop edition but 32bit
should be fine too) Linux on
a coworker's new Acer Aspire 4730z laptop.

Installation went fine and *everything* (LAN, video, sound, wifi,
special buttons, trackpad, compiz
effects etc) worked out of the box upon first reboot with absolutely
no additional configuration/tinkering :-)

Just wasn't able to try the card reader and the webcam was showing
all-green picture in ekiga... I ran an update but wasnt
able to reboot to check whether webcam might work better since we
(coworker and I) were leaving for the day.

Very impressed with this Intel-Montevina-based laptop... onboard Intel
graphics (compiz effects work) and Atheros based wifi.

- Vishal

PS: Also saw on a tech forum post that Hardy 8.04 worked fine on this
same laptop model.

Garric

December 1st, 2008, 09:57 PM

Ubuntu 8.10
Graphics Card
Xfx (Nvidia partner)
XFX 9500GT 680MHz Edition 256MB DDR3 Dual DVI TV Out PCI-E Graphics Card

bubblefish

December 3rd, 2008, 01:40 AM

With Ubuntu 8.04 on an Asus motherboard, HP LaserJet 5L works great. Set up through Netgear PS 101 mini print server wired to network hub. Uses AppSocket setup.

jdc.84

December 4th, 2008, 07:08 PM

Ubuntu 8.1 installed earlier today.

Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M 1420

Mem upgrade to 1 gig

Everything so far seems to be working with one execption...

The memory card reader built into the front isn't seen anywhere

jdc.84

December 4th, 2008, 07:13 PM

oh...

the fan seems to be on all the time now. Music has to be on to try and drown out the mind numbing sound of the fan.

Riverside

December 5th, 2008, 01:58 PM

Ubuntu version: 32-bit 8.04.1
Case: Antec P182
PSU: Corsair HX620W
Motherboard: Intel DP35DP
Graphics Card: Gigabyte GeForce 8800GT 512MB
CPU: Intel E8400
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint HD642JJ 640GB
Optical drive: Pioneer DVR-215BK
Memory: 4GB kit Crucial DDR2 PC2-5300
Mouse: Logitech MX620
Keyboard: Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000
Monitor: Iiyama B2403WS 24" widescreen

All working perfectly with 8.04.1 including onboard sound. More detail at:

http://forums.hardwareguys.com/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=14;t=6566

StormWalker

December 6th, 2008, 11:04 PM

Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit
Graphic Card
Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit
MSI Radeon

Thank You.

boblee

December 9th, 2008, 02:18 PM

Dell Precision M90 laptop workstation:
2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo T7200, 4Mb cache | 2Gb (2*1024) Samsung DDR2-667 5.0-5-5-13 | Seagate Momentus 7200.1 100GB 7200, 8MB cache | NVIDIA Quadro FX2500M, 512Mb, driving 1920x1200 LCD | Maxtor 3200 USB2 500GB 7200, 16MB cache | Sony DVD+/-RW DW-Q58A | Broadcom gigabit ethernet

The processor is not recognised, but runs, and is correctly shown as two cores.
The video card - the OpenGL version of the G71 core as used on 7900GTX - is not recognised, shown as an 'unknown device 029a', but runs at native resolution and full color depth. Adding the NVIDIA-supplied binary driver enables full OpenGL support which works well.
:guitar:

candela

December 10th, 2008, 07:44 PM

1)Version Of Ubuntu : 8.04 Hardy Heron and 7.04 Feisty Fawn, Gnome

2)Type Of Hardware : Laptop

3)Hardware Maker : Benq

4)Hardware Model : Joybook 7000

With Feisty every thing worked very well (thanks a lot)

With Hardy verything works ok but the temperature. The computer gets very hot because the fans don't start soon enough and i cant find a fan controller. I have an ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9700 with opensource x.org drivers and i can use the sensors and cpu scalling monitor applets to see the temperature. I have look in internet and in previous kernels it was possible to make a script to control fan speed through acpi but new kernels doesnt allow to write. I read that the ati propietary driver can control the fan but i much prefer to suport free software. I hope that in next realeases you can give us a solution. also, i detected that scrolling firefox 3.0.4 makes the computer very very hot but using other programs as kino (video) not (thanks again for theses os)

tubbygweilo

December 13th, 2008, 12:27 AM

Lenovo ThinkPad SL500 2746 - Core 2 Duo P7370 2 GHz - 15.4" TFT
2 GB (installed) / 3 GB (max) - DDR2 SDRAM - 667 MHz - PC2-5300 ( 1 x 2 GB )
NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS - 256 MB
15.4" TFT 1280 x 800 ( WXGA ) - 24-bit
Intel WiFi Link 5100

Dual boot Vista Business 32bit Ubuntu 8.10 64bit

Nvidia restricted driver version 177 via Ubuntu repository

LinuxGuy1234

December 13th, 2008, 03:22 PM

Acer Aspire 5315-2153. Almost works out of the box. The new kernel supports sound, old ones don't. Only thing not working working out of the box is wireless.

dovalize

December 14th, 2008, 04:18 PM

Hi,

I'm new...
My Specs:
Ubuntu 6.10
IBM X61 laptop workstation

It works great. Anyway, just wanna try out the function as I'm planning to switch back to windows and than get a dual boot, perhaps.

_geordi_

December 14th, 2008, 06:50 PM

Version(s): Ubuntu 9.04 / jaunty (32 & 64 bit)
Type of hw: graphics card
Vendor: : Powercolor
Model : ScS3 Radeon HD4650 (RV730 PRO) 512MB passive cooling

Works with the proprietary ATI fglrx driver (v 8.561).
should work with the next version of radeonhd (v 1.2.4), not tried.

System:
M/B: ECS Elitegroup A770M-A (AMD 770 + SB600)
CPU: AMD X2 BE2400 (2x2.3GHz)
RAM: 2GB DDR2-800

amdalex

December 15th, 2008, 04:37 AM

Ubuntu 8.10 32 bit
Home build
Mobo- Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H
CPU- AMD Athlon 5000+ X2
RAM- 2gb DDR-2 800
CD/DVD- Lite on DVD CD burner
GPU- MSI Nvidia 8400GS
Sound- Onboard

Everything works great. I installed Ubuntu then I installed the restricted Nvidia driver which it told me to do. Sound worked after install, no issues. :biggrin:

el02

December 17th, 2008, 08:37 AM

Ubuntu 8.10

DELL Latitude D630 laptop:
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7250 @2.00GHz | 2GB (2*1024) RAM | 160GB harddisk | Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller | Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet | Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g Wireless | CD/DVD-RW

Wireless switch (located at left side) works perfectly to turn on/off wireless radio.

Standby, hibernate, wake up: no problem at all.

Nelsinius

December 18th, 2008, 12:01 AM

Ubuntu 8.04
MSI K9MM-V MoBo
AMD64 Athlon X2 4000+
1 GB DDR2 PC2 5300
320 GB SATA Seagate HD
Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 256 MB DDR PCI
Lexmark X1240 All-in-one (with Z600 driver from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=159704&highlight=Z600)
HP Deskjet F2210 All-in-one (with HPLIP from http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/install/index.html)
Dynex media reader (SD, MMC, SM, CF, MS)

sprince09

December 22nd, 2008, 05:06 PM

Gateway M-6862 Laptop
- ATI-Raedon HD2600 video card
- 4GB RAM
- 2 x 2.2 GHz Intel
- Intel Wireless Card (a/b/g/n)

I got Ubuntu 8.10 to work completely:
- Install from live CD
- Uninstall compiz and compiz core (caused problems installing raedon driver for me)
sudo apt-get autoremove compiz
- Get updates
sudo apt-get update;sudo apt-get install upgrade
- Reboot (maybe not necessary, but I always do after updates)
- Get/Install envyNG (use to install raedon driver)
sudo apt-get install envyng-core
- Install Raedon driver with envy
envyng -t
- Reboot (again, maybe not necessary)
- Re-install compiz if desired
sudo apt-get install compiz
- Reboot one last time just to make sure everything is set up properly

Now you should be running Ubuntu 8.10 :)

itsStephen

December 25th, 2008, 10:22 AM

The Logitech LX310 keyboard and mouse set works fine with Kubuntu 8.10

armandh

December 25th, 2008, 03:08 PM

DDS-32 printer works on LP1 with the Hatachi ddp-70 driver
including duplex [2 sided] no other features
no luck networking. [network printing in XP with win 2K beta drivers.][NOW SOLVED}

no luck so far with its close cousin [IBM infoprint 40]

FrankT-Qc

December 26th, 2008, 09:18 PM

Hello !

Here's the desktop I just assembled :

Motherboard : Asus M2N-MX SE Pro (Bios version 0503)
CPU : Amd Athlon X2 5000
Mem : Kingston 2048 MB DDR2 800
HDD : Seagate Baracuda SATA 3GB/S 500GB 32MB Cache
OPTICAL : LG GH22NS30

OS : Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10) 64 bit (32bit live CD works great too)
Display Driver : NVIDIA version 177

What works : Basically everything (Sound, Graphic, Compiz, USB, CD/DVD reading and burning)

Problems out of the box :
- CPU Frequency scalling not working

- Window Title bars glitch and change color every now and then, not that big of a problem...

Have fun
Frank

andrewmv

December 27th, 2008, 03:45 AM

Ubuntu 8.10
Kensington Slimblade mouse

All standard and special functions work out of the box, without any drivers or configuration.

The middle button is correctly emulated by chording the left and right buttons together (there is no physical middle button on this mouse), vertical and horizontal scrolling via the trackball both work.

The media buttons on the back of the mouse correspond to the XF86 keyboard shortcut keys for volume up, volume down, play/pause, previous track, and next track, and accordingly they integrate neatly into most media player programs. The volume buttons control the system volume from any program.

Strid

December 30th, 2008, 01:52 PM

Works out-of-the-box under Ubuntu 8.10 (Ibex):

Xerox Phaser 6130/N color laser printer, connected via. USB.
Plugged it in and turned on my computer and it was already recognized when I open the "Printer configuration" app.

Please note that this is about the only small Xerox Phaser color laser printer that boasts Linux support from Xerox.

arohanui

December 31st, 2008, 05:49 PM

Ubuntu version: 7.10
Type Of Hardware: Monitior
Hardware Maker: Viewsonic
Hardware Model: VA2226w

Out of the box.

AKADAP

January 1st, 2009, 06:24 AM

Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit
Motherboard: Asus P6T Delux
Processor: Intel Core i7 920
Disk: Seagate 1.5 TB SATA drive
Optical Disk: LG Blu-ray/HD DVD-Rom & 16x DVD +-R DVD Burner (SATA)
Video: Powercolor AX4850 Radion HD4850 512MB.
Monitor: Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP using DisplayPort.
Mouse: Compaq CPQ750TP

Notes: Had to use video safe mode to install or I would end up with the monitor sleeping forever early in the install process. Once installed, changed to proprietary hardware driver from ATI to get full resolution.
Currently both the optical and coax digital sound outputs do not function. Analog outputs work fine.
Optical drive works for reading, have not yet tried burning a disk yet.
Mouse only works in compatibility mode, scroll ball only works as a scroll wheel (no horizontal control).

Raynman37

January 2nd, 2009, 04:35 AM

Ubuntu version 8.10

LG GH22 22x Internal Super Multi DVD Rewriter: Works out of the box, no need for install CD.

Note: Make sure you have the jumper settings right :P

Aging Technogeek

January 3rd, 2009, 12:52 AM

Just installed Intrepid on a Dell Precision M60 workstation - Intel Pentium M 1.7 ghz, 2 gbyte ram, 60 gbyte HDD, Nvidia QuadroFX 700 (128 mbyte video mem.), Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG wifi card. Easy install; everything working well. This is my first experience with linux OS. It is not as difficult as I was led to beliieve. Will definitely keep using Ubuntu or other linux distro.

cmay

January 6th, 2009, 10:57 PM

video cards.

albatron:nvidia geforce 8400 gs

msi: nx7300 td256eh

motherboard:
msi:k9agm4

this works with ubuntu 8.04 , 8.10 and jaunty jackalope.

frankelr

January 7th, 2009, 11:43 PM

Ubuntu Intrepid amd64
Ubuntu Hardy amd64

works well with HP slimline s3600z

2 and 4 GB

kelvinblank

January 10th, 2009, 05:44 PM

Currently using ubuntu 8.10 32-bit in my compaq cq40-107au

Specs:

AMD Athlon x2(1.9Ghz)
ATI Radeon HD 3200
2GB DDR2 667
160GB HDD

All goes fine except when going to suspended mode, when loging in back, the keyboard is not responding (all buttons). I dont know if my integrated mic is working but the touchpad, sounds, integrated cam,USB mouse. I didnt try if i can connect using wifi since im using a wired network. video and sounds are ok. im currently using dual boot OS with Windows Vista - Starter(32-bit).

markbuntu

January 11th, 2009, 12:15 AM

Ubuntu 8.04 32 bit and 64 bit, 8.10 64 bit, Mandriva 2009 One

Biostar TA790GX A2+ motherboard
AMD Athlon X2 6000 cpu
Corsair 800MHZ Ram 6GB (2 2GB, 2 1GB)
ATI HD3650 1GB PCIx16 gpu
SIIG Soundwave 7.1 PCI ( C-Media 8768 chipset )

ipatt

January 12th, 2009, 01:52 PM

Hello, this is not strictly a compatibility issue nor is it only restricted to laptops. I encountered the problem on a laptop which is why I am posting it here.

The "difficulty" was encountered after a Ubuntu 8.04 install and was intermittant. I tried previous Ubuntus (I have them back to 5.04 but did not go that far) with the same maddening failure. The machine would hang usually working with OOo. Much head scratching led me to suspect a hardware failure so I ran a memory test (Memtest86+ v 1.70) but all was OK and since I have a Hitachi drive I ran Hitachi's drive fitness test (DFT). Of course the laptop manufacturer's diagnostics revealed nothing and the machine was out of warranty.

Still the problem persisted so I went looking for other tests. Among my search I discovered that there is an upgrade to Memtest86+; the current version is 2.11 and is more thorough than version 1.70 included in Ubuntu. I tried it and BINGO! after running it for ~5 1/2 hours I got memory errors. Replacing the SODIMM cured my problem.

I hope that this might be useful to someone and is also a plea to the folks at Canonical to replace Memtest86+ v 1.70 with the newer v 2.11 in future distributions.

bendib

January 12th, 2009, 09:23 PM

ubuntu 8.10 with just about every Desktop environment you can think of. along with nimblex linux and puppy linux installed on the same partition sometimes ran in virtualbox via iso file.
sony vaio pcg-nv170 notebook, made in 2001.
256 MB ram
1.5 ghz intel pentium four CPU
Every feature works perfectly.

beastrace91

January 15th, 2009, 11:49 PM

K/Ubuntu - 8.10
Asus F3Ka
GFX Card - Radeon HD2600 Mobility (512 Meg)

Issue: The live CD will not boot.

Solution: Download the alternate CD and one you have everything installed let the system try to boot then press ctrl+alt+f1 to get to a terminal login once you are logged in and at a console screen run the following:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade (I am not sure if it is needed but at this point I would always reboot the laptop and relog in) Once you are logged in again run the following lines:
sudo apt-get install build-essential xorg-driver-fglrx
sudo aticonfig --initial -f After that finishes reboot boot once more and you should now have a login window :)

________

Ubuntu - 8.10
Asus G1Sn
GFX Card - nVidia 9500M GS (256 Meg)

Works like a charm so long as you have 2 gigs of ram or less.

~Jeff

raptor2552

January 19th, 2009, 04:10 PM

Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit with all current updates installed

Asus P5Q-E motherboard - AMI BIOS ver 1306
- Northbridge: Intel P45
- Southbridge: Intel ICH10R
- High Def Audio ADI AD2000B
- LAN 2 x 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit
- ATI CrossFireX ready (Drivers available for Radeon 4800 series cards only)
- Hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 (no drivers needed)

Intel E7300 Core 2 Duo Processor, Socket 775, 45nm Multi-Core

OCZ Dual Channel 4096MB (2 x 2048MB) PC6400 DDR2 800Mhz Memory, 8 GB installed
- model# OCZ2P8004GK (Recommended by Asus' VCL)

Visiontek Radeon HD 3870 Video in PCIe x16 slot (system loaded latest correct driver and ATI Catalyst Control Center)

CompUSA brand DVD writer DVD DW 8X16X8X16

SATA Wetern Digital Caviar WDC WD3200AAKS-0, 320 GB HDD, 1 installed

SATA Seagate Barracuda ST3160815AS, 160 GB HDD, 2 installed

PC Power & Cooling 750-Watt Power Supply

Northgate OmniKey 102 keyboard (USA)

Logitech Optical USB mouse

Wacom Graphire tablet

Dell S2409 LCD 16:9 format monitor using DVI interface (system correctly found and set 1920x1080 res)

Comments:
All hardware works flawlessly without having to hunt down drivers. The Audio sounds fantastic, and this setup is fast.

BIOS SATA configuration is set by default to IDE compatability which needs to be set to AHCI in order to take advantage of the high speed SATA 3 Gb/s interface. This board comes with a fall back BIOS chip (redundant) and needed to set the BIOS to Keep Last Setting.

Both cores of the CPU where recognized as well as all 8 Gig of RAM. I'm running a guest OS Windows XP as a virtual machine (Virtualbox 64 bit) and is the reason I decided on 8 Gig. I have a need for my Sony Visual Studio software that seems to run better as a virtual machine than natively in Windows.

There was one issue I noticed with the Radeon card; the video flickered during playback in VLC with Compiz enabled. This was fixed by setting VLC to use X11 as its output mode.

MikeMc

Aeling

January 27th, 2009, 04:20 AM

Ubuntu Hardy
Laptop
MSI GX710

I tried Intrepid first, but after 4-5 hours of trying to install while waiting for the Hardy ISO to download Hardy worked just fine. Proprietary drivers for the ATI graphics card + madwifi drivers for the Atheros card worked with pretty simple setup, and bluetooth worked out-of-the-box. Webcam is as yet untested; no need for it.

raunhar

January 27th, 2009, 09:19 AM

Ubuntu 8.10
Hardware : benq Scanner
Model :5000 USB scanner
Problem: Ubuntu does not detect the hardware

IdahoBackwoods

January 27th, 2009, 10:04 PM

Running 64-bit Ubuntu Linux 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on

Toshiba Satellite P305-S8904 (PSPC8U-01400Q)
---------------------------------------------------------------
Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 @ 2.0GHz
Intel GM45 Express chipset
4GB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz
Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics, shared memory
17.0" TFT LCD display, 1440x900 resolution, supports 720p
Intel Wi-Fi Link 5100AGN
10/100 Ethernet
3 USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire port, one eSATA/USB port
DVD SuperMulti double-layer optical drive
104-key keyboard with separate numeric keypad
Intel ICH9 family 82801I HD audo controller
Chicony webcam

----------------------------------------------------------------

Everything worked in Intrepid with little trouble installing, except that 3D graphics in apps like Google Earth are broken. As I understand it, this problem that has been reported in all flavors of Linux, and is probably the fault of the Intel video driver.

uberdonkey5

January 29th, 2009, 09:45 PM

HP 1005
(and probably most Hewlett Packard printers)

on Hardy (8.04) installed drivers DO NOT WORK.

However, go to this site and choose automatic installer:

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/downloads.html

thepizzaman

January 30th, 2009, 03:45 AM

just added a sapphire HD3650 and works great

saggitheman

February 1st, 2009, 12:51 AM

Dell Latitude D600

Processor: Intel Pentium M (1.80 GHz)
RAM installed: 512 MB DDR SDRAM (2 x CPU cards, Each in 250++. But says 512)
Network: Broadcom wireless card (built in)
HardDrive: 80GB Hitachi HDD
Screen: 14.1 SXGA+ (1400x1050) display
CD: DVD/CD-RW
Softwear: Linux Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10
Battery: Standard. (if i use computer constantly it works maximum 1 hour - 50 min, but it is a wery old battery)

It works comletly problem free. All drivers works from installation. (Have to enable wireless card) It can seem a little bit slow, but only when i have all Compiz effects enabled and firefox + amarok + pidgin + a little other stuff.
I think it works better than Windows. Faster if i don't run Compiz-Fusion.

grispa

February 2nd, 2009, 01:17 AM

SONY VAIO FW21E [LAPTOP]

Ubuntu ver.: Intrepid Ibex (8.10) kernels 2.6.27-9 through 11 AMD64
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8400 2,26 Ghz 3MB - L2 on Centrino 2 Platform
Chipset: Intel PM 45 Express
Memory: 4 GB (2x2MB) DDR2 SDRAM 800Mhz
HD: 320 GB Serial-ATA-150 5400rpm 8 MB cache
Audio: Realtek ALC262 HD audio Microsoft WSS 1.0/2.0 compatible
Graphic: ATI Mobility Radeon 3470 256 Megabytes DDR - II (1.4 GB shared), w ATI UVD Engine, VGA D-SUB, HDMI w HDCP, DX 10.1.
Display: 16.4" WXGA++ TFT, 1600x900, X-Black
Opt. Drive: Optiarc DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM / BD-ROM
Wireless Adapter: Intel Pro Wireless 5100 a/b/g/n(draft) w Bluetooth 2.1 EDR
Ethernet Adapter: Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet
Various:
* Modem/Fax 56k
* Webcam 1.3 Megapixels
* 3 porte USB 2.0
* Jack Audio in Audio Out
* Kensington Lock
* MMC SD card reader

All devices worked perfectly without any intervention needed, except for the graphic drivers (ATI's are needed for 3D acceleration).
It is yet (01 February 09) unavailable support for "fn" keys, including the fn-activated numpad and scroll-lock, though it is available a patch for the brightness adjustment keys.
The external keys work with the exception of the S1 (suspend) and AV MODE (switch to external display) ones.

bdcollignon

February 6th, 2009, 11:53 AM

Ubuntu version: Tested on Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10

Hardware: Brother DCP-7030 all-in-one B&W printer and scanner

Works well, with the following installation procedure and restrictions:

1. Installation:
Simply follow the instructions given at the Brother website:
- http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html
- Be sure to follow all instructions, including the "Pre-required procedures" (for 8.04 & 8.10: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/before.html#002)
- Installed printer first (Cups, Cupswrapper Driver Install), then scanner, and finally Scan-key
- You may get 2 DCP-7030 printers by the end of the installation. Just delete the one with the wrong URI (Should be: "usb://Brother/DCP-7030")

2. Restrictions:
- As in many cases, Linux drivers are not as optimized as Windows ones. Slower and less functions (eg Poster function unavailable under Linux).
- Attention: I have encountered problems with printing of files over 100-200KB when Scan-key is activated. How to stop Scan-key: terminal command "brscan-skey -t" (See: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_u … html#Inst2). And if you decide to un-install Scan-key, make sure you stop it before, or you may still have the printing problems after un-install. Once Scan-key is stopped, everything works perfect again.

hadji457

February 6th, 2009, 03:30 PM

Ubuntu 8.04
Laptop
Gateway 450ROG
Everything works out of the box. This is the only distro in which suspend to ram and suspend to disk actually works. That is the main reason I settled with hardy on this machine ( and I've tried many distros ).

maxino

February 7th, 2009, 11:54 AM

Ubuntu 8.10
(ancient) Nvidia GeForce 6200 (driver vers. 177.82)
(even more ancient) Desktop IBM Netvista P4 2GHz

just added an Asus VH226H 1920x1080 monitor.
Absolutely nothing to do, worked instantly, perfect resolution, pin sharp text

maxino

uberlinux

February 8th, 2009, 06:26 PM

MSI Wind Desktop : Ubuntu 8.10
Everything works flawlessly!

MSI Wind details:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856167032

CPU Type Intel 1.6GHz Atom processor on board
FSB 533MHz
Chipset
North Bridge Intel 945GC
South Bridge ICH7
Memory Supported
Memory slot 1 x 200Pin
Memory Type Supported DDR2 533/400
Max Memory Supported 2GB
Expansion Slots
Other 1 x CF Slot
Storage
Serial ATA 2 x SATAII 300
Graphics
Onboard Video Intel GMA 950
Audio
Onboard Audio Realtek ALC858
Channel 8 Channel
Communications
LAN Realtek 8111C(10/100/1000Mbps)
Max LAN Speed 10/100/1000Mbps
Extension Bays
3.5" Internal Bays 1
5.25" External Bays 1
Front Panel Ports
Front USB 2
Front Audio Ports 2 jacks
Card Reader SD/MMC/MS/XD
Back Panel Ports
VGA 1 x D-sub
Rear USB 4
RJ45 1
Rear Audio Ports 6 jacks
Power Supply
Power Supply External 65W Power Adapter with Active PFC

FrankT-Qc

February 10th, 2009, 02:48 AM

Hi again !

Here are the details of a few computers running under Ubuntu. You might also want to go to the end to look for a few extra peripherals.

#1 :
Starting from a Dell OptiPlex GX260
Motherboard : Dell 02X378
CPU : Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz
RAM : 512MiB DDR 266 MHz (3.8 ns)
HDD : Western Digital WDC WD400BB-75JH 40GB EIDE5ce15c
CD : Sorry, impossible to read the stickers... some generic cdrom...

Added to the OptiPlex package : D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

Ran for many months under Hardy x86 Server without a glitch
Running since a few months under Intrepid x86 Server without a glitch

#2 :
Starting from a Seanix Desktop :
Motherboard : Intel D845GRG
CPU : Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.40GHz
RAM : DDR 266 MHz 2x 256MiB
HDD : Western Digital WDC WD400BB-00JH 40GB EIDE
CD-R/CD-RW writer, can't read the stickers

Added to the Seanix package : D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

Has run under Hardy x86 for a few months without any problem
Running since a few months under Intrepid x86 without any problem

#3 :
Home made desktop computer :
Motherboard : Asus M2N-MX SE Plus
CPU : AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
RAM : Kingston DDR2 800 MHz 2GiB (2x)
HDD : Seagate Baracuda ST3500320AS SATA II 500GB
DVD : LG GH22NS30 (22x DVD+/-RW)

Running since a few months under Intrepid amd64, I've had a few problems with DVD burning at full speed (when you fail in the middle of a DVD burning operation, the reader stops working until reboot. By the way, not such a good burner but works anyway).

#4 :
Starting from a (Old and beat up) Seanix Desktop :
Motherboard : Intel D850GB
CPU : Intel Pentium 4 CPU 1400MHz
RAM : RIMM RAMBUS 400 MHz (2.5 ns) 2x 64MiB and 2x 128MiB
Ethernet : Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C + capacity: 100Base-T
HDD : SAMSUNG SV4084H 40GB (EIDE)
CD-R/CD-RW writer, can't read the stickers
DVD-ROM, can't read the stickers

Has run under Hardy x86 for a few months without any problem
Running since a few months under Intrepid x86 without any problem
(for those interested, has run FreeBSD for a short while and everything worked fine)

#5 :
LG Notebook P1-KP01F1 (LG P1 Pro Express Dual)
CPU : Intel Core 2 T5600 1.83GHz
RAM : DDR2 667 2x 1GiB

Has run for a few months under Hardy x86
Has run for a few months under Intrepid x86
Running since a few months under Intremid amd64

Everything worked perfectly except for those problems :
Laptop speaker stops working a few minutes after the computer is turned on (under all versions of ubuntu; did not have this problem with Fedora or OpenSUSE) but the earphone jack works fine

Never could get any kind of sound recording, either Mic or Line-in
Installing the ATI driver under Intrepid amd64 was a little tricky : Bottom line you must, at FIRST boot, update you system and then install ATI's driver BEFORE any reboot

Other hardware that works fine :

Printer : Samsumg ML-1210 Laser printer : Works without any effort, shared with a few *nix clients and Windows clients without problem

Printer : Brother HL-2040 Laser (Driver : foomatic for HL-2060) Shared perfectly among *nix clients, for windows XP/Vista, use the HL-2060 and in the settings, turn off "advanced printing features" if printing seams to "hang"

Printer :
Epson CX4450 : Well... The printer works but I never could get the scanner to work under Hardy. I never tried it with intrepid because I threw the thing away; it's the worst printer I've ever seen.

External hard drive :
WD MyBook Premium 500 GB, using the USB interface (just never tried the firewire). Works perfect. 20MB/s writing, 25 MB/s reading, quite the same as under windows. (Half NTFS, Half Ext3)

WD MyBook Home edition : 1TB using the USB interface, never tried firewire or eSATA. Works perfect. 20-25MB/s writing, 25-30 MB/s reading, quite the same as under windows. (XFS)

For both external hard drives, you won't get the capacity gauge working because you need a program that doesn't exist for Linux (feel free to try WINE if you can't live without another led flashing around your desktop...). Personally, I don't even install these on Windows boxes.

Have fun !
François ( questions : francois.trahan@gmail.com )

jen1963

February 11th, 2009, 03:49 PM

Both the Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H motherboard and HP Photosmart C4480 All in one work like a charm in Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid; Ubuntu saw all my hardware without a hitch.

My Frankenbox Spec's:
Case: Antec Sonata III with a 500 watt Antec power supply
CPU: AMD Phenom X4 9950
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H
Ram: 4 Gig of Kingston DDR2 Ram (PC2 8500) running at 1066 mhz
CD/DVD Drive: LG GH22NS30 (SATA)
Hard drives: 2 Western Digital WD5001AALS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA Drives

HUGGS,
Jen Cato
Systems Administrator,
tuxwerx.com
Grumpy Republican Blog:
www.tuxwerx.com/Blogs

neilevan814

February 12th, 2009, 09:57 AM

Hi could you tell me which Lite On DVD drive you have? I ma looking to purchase one fairly soon for a new computer build. Thanks a lot.

Cheers, Neil

praxis22

February 13th, 2009, 01:02 AM

Me?

A Lightscribe DVDRW SHW-16H5S

http://www.liteonit.com/global/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=67

mozkill

February 16th, 2009, 10:41 PM

Is anyone running Ubuntu on a "Nvidia Ion" desktop yet?

http://hothardware.com/articleimages/Item1261/NV_SFF_reference_hand_2.jpg

usman4514

February 19th, 2009, 02:35 AM

HI guys I want to purchase a new laptop. Actually i want to boot my laptop from usb drive on which Linux is installed. I am interested in sony vaio. Is there any body guide me that which sony vaio laptop meet my requirements. thanks

Daystrom-CDW

February 19th, 2009, 04:46 PM

Ubuntu 8.10
Laptop
Dell C400
PIII 1.2Ghz
768MB Ram
20GB HD
Intel 2200 wifi card added (non-standard equipment, taken from a D5xx Dell laptop)

I had to disable COMPIZ otherwise it wouldn't boot after installation.

New Quick Fix
Hit Esc at Grub boot menu
Boot recovery mode
Goto command prompt and run "Xorg -configure" (case sensitive capital "X")
/root/xorg.config.new will be generated
Take ONLY the settings for the "device" section(s) from xorg.config.new and overwrite the "device" section in /etc/X11/xorg.config
reboot

Old Fix (takes a long time)
To boot to console and have a wired network connection working I had to do the following:
Hit Esc at Grub boot menu
Hit e to edit default boot option
Highlight "kernel blah blah..." and hit e to edit
Remove splash and type vga=773 then press enter
Press b to boot
At login prompt hit ctrl-alt-F1 to get console login
To fix COMPIZ issue at the console I ran following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

This took a long time to download and install, I went out to dinner and it had rebooted and was working properly by the time I got back.

Results
There are still some minor video issues but it works. As per Ubuntu 8.10 release notes there are bugs in the intel video driver for these old chipsets. Via the GUI menus System -> Preferences -> Appearances -> Visual Effects Tab -> "None" is the setting you want to disable the COMPIZ effects.

Video Card
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]
vendor: Intel Corporation

neilevan814

February 20th, 2009, 06:21 AM

Version Of Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 32 bit
Asus M2N68-VM Motherboard
2gb Corsair XSM2 cl5 ddr2 Ram
AMD Athlon 64 x2 4850e 2.5ghz Processor
Lite-On DVDRW iHAP222-06
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500AAKS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

So far this set up has worked great. I am just now trying to troubleshoot the codecs issue and no being able to view dvd's in totem.

I only have this set up with a Dell CRT vga analog screen, usb logitech mouse, and IBM ps2 keyboard.

No hitches, just the dvd glitch so far

Niniel

February 20th, 2009, 05:18 PM

8.10 Live CD
Dell Dimension XPS D333
PII 333 MHz, 192 MB RAM, nVidia Ti4200, Toshiba CD-ROM, 2 IBM hds on mainboard (10 & 8 GB), 2 more hds on Maxtor PCI100 card (2 x Maxtor 40 GB). MS Natural Keyboard (1st gen., via PS/2), MS optical trackball, Samsung Synchmaster 570V LCD monitor.

Runs without problems, although not surprisingly, slightly slowly. :)
I just needed GParted to examine/wipe a hd I want to throw away, so on a whim I put in the CD; I'm surprised at how well the OS runs. I don't plan on installing Ubuntu on that machine, but it looks like I could if I wanted to.

bodcod

February 21st, 2009, 08:25 PM

1)Version Of Ubuntu: 8.10 Itrepid Ibex 32bit/9.04 32 bit
2)Type Of Hardware: Wireless pci card
3)Hardware Maker: Edimax
4)Hardware Model: EW-7128G (EU Model)

This is plug and play pretty much.
Ubuntu regonised card , network manger pops up a message saying it has detected wirelees networks, I click on the message bubble up comes my wireless routers ssid , I cick on it enter my wpa2-psk password and it connects all in less than 2 minutes.

ajm422

February 23rd, 2009, 11:45 PM

Intrepid Ibex 8.10 64-bit

BIOSTAR TA90GX Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz CPU
G.Skill 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 1066
WD Caviar Black 750GB HDD
Logitech PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard
ASUS VH222H 21.5" Monitor
LG 22x DVD+/-RW SATA DVD Burner

Plugged it all in and it just worked. One minor problem:

The recommended resolution on the monitor is 1920x1080, but if I try to set it as such using the ATI drivers I downloaded it doesn't fill the whole monitor, and leaves black space around the edges. I have to use 1680x1050 for it to fill the whole screen. It's a long term problem I'd like to fix.

hellsgator

February 24th, 2009, 11:01 PM

Acer 5715z
X3100 graphics card
dual core 1.87Ghz
160GB HD
3g RAM

Working just fine. No issue with 8.10, testing 9.04.

Kevoc

February 25th, 2009, 02:31 PM

This system acts as a satellite receiver and media centre.

The system is based on an HP D530 small form factor PC with a microATX mainboard. The board is socket 478, supports 2 SATA devices, one low profile AGPx8 graphics card and has a PCI riser that supports two full height PCI cards. The system uses an 185W PSU, which is pretty amazing considering that the TDP for the CPU is 89 watts.

OS: Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 32 bit/Myth TV
CPU: P4 Prescott 2.8Ghz
HD: Samsung SpinPoint F1 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache – OEM
RAM: 1 Gb, 2x PC2700 sticks
Graphics: PNY GeForce 6200 256MB Low Profile AGP Graphics Card (passively cooled)
DVD: Pioneer DVR-215DBK 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) – OEM
Receiver card: Hauppauge WinTV Nova S Plus
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 2233BW 22”
Networking: Netgear WG311 54Mbps Wireless Desktop PCI Network Adapter
Keyboard/mouse: Keysonic Wireless Keyboard/Touchpad ACK-540RF

I'm still trying to get the remote to work properly (surprise surprise) and need to replace the RAM to better complement the CPU.

neilevan814

February 26th, 2009, 08:29 AM

Hi have you tried your new monitor with a dvi or hdmi cable? I am about to get this monitor and was wondering what your experience has been. Thanks a lot.

Kevoc

February 26th, 2009, 03:08 PM

Hi have you tried your new monitor with a dvi or hdmi cable? I am about to get this monitor and was wondering what your experience has been. Thanks a lot.

If you are refering to the Samsung 2233BW, it only has D-Sub and DVI, it has no dedicated hdmi connector. However I do use the DBI and its fine, native resolution is correctly detected, desktop is fine, movies look fine too, though not as good as they would appear on a dedicated TV. It's far to bright out of the box though.

neilevan814

February 26th, 2009, 07:51 PM

Kevoc

February 27th, 2009, 12:22 AM

Thanks Kevoc for the reply. That helps a lot. I am also considering the Asus VH226H. Here's the link. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236051 Do you think this would be much better?

Presuming that you have a graphics card that will support the 1080p resolution then it looks like a good buy. It certainly gets good ratings on Newegg, and it also has a hdmi connector. I was tempted to go for a 1080p monitor myself but wasn't sure if my graphics card would support it. I did know that my GF 6200 would do 1680*1050 so I went for a monitor that would do that. Nice sized desktop, but I do get a slightly compromised TV experience, though it's not too annoying.

epidemiks

February 28th, 2009, 05:29 AM

My new laptop :grins:

Hardware:

HP DV5 1139TX
Intel Core2Duo T9400 @ 2.53GHz
4GB RAM
400GB HD
Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT 512MB works ootb with restricted drivers
Intel 5100 AGN wifi
Touch sensitive buttons
Remote control
Lightscribe Dual Layer DVD burner

OS:

Intrepid Ibex 8.10 x86_64
2.6.27-11
Dual boots with Vista Home Premium (came with it, I didn't put it on:lolflag:)

Everything working 100% out of the box except:

LED on MUTE touch sensitive button doesn't go red
FF & RW on remote
"Quickplay" touch button isn't assigned to any media player
Doesn't resume from hibernate

Not yet tested:

4in1 card reader
Lightscribe

runemaste644

March 2nd, 2009, 04:29 PM

Note that this has two different things in it, hope you dont mind.

This is my laptop.
Ubuntu 8.10
Notebook
Lenovo
3000 N100 | Screen 1680x1050 | AuthenTec AES2501 fingerprint reader | Broadcom bcm43xx wireless N card | dvd/dvdrw drive | Synaptic Touchpad | Ricoh ms/mspro/sd/mmc/xd card reader | digital audio | intel core 2 duo 2.2ghz | nvidia geforce go 7300 | bluetooth | 120gb sata drive | webcam | microphone

Things that work without drivers: DVD drive, Touchpad, SD card reader, Audio, bluetooth*
Things that work with drivers installable by the restricted drivers tool, add/remove or synaptic: Wireless card (no need to backup bcmwl5.sys) Nvidia card, Fingerprint reader, microphone**
Things that work with other drivers: Webcam (Get the microdia driver, it works great!)
Things not working: MS/MSPRO/xD card reader.
*Note: the built in bluetooth radio was recognized out of the box, but I had to install gnome-obex-server to receive files.
**Note: I had to install the Gnome ALSA mixer settings to get it working.

This is just for a keyboard/mouse combo.
Version of Ubuntu: Ubuntu 8.04/8.10
Type: Wireless Keyboard/Mouse Combo
Manufacturer: Microsoft 0.o
Model: Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000/Wireless Laser Keyboard 6000 v2.0

Features that work (will update frequently as I test these out):

Mouse:
mouse has 5 mouse buttons (doesnt work so far)

Keyboard:
25 hotkeys, including but not limited to: Browser fwd/back, home, documents, mail, zoom in/out, media controls, bookmark keys (Good luck configuring all of them)

I noticed the keyboard and mouse worked even before windows loads, so I thought it should work on Linux plug and play, which it does.

Screwdriver0815

March 2nd, 2009, 09:32 PM

Ubuntu 8.10 on Lenovo 3000 N200 with Nvidia 7300GO graphics card, Intel WLAN chipset, 2 gb Ram, 250 Gb HDD, Intel soundchip

works nearly out of the box.

Improvements to be done: Nvidia screen-flicker Bug has to be fixed, cardreader doesn't work out of the box

HughHemington

March 3rd, 2009, 11:34 PM

I previously tried 8.04 on my HP Pavilion TX1000 laptop. It came with Vista Home Premium. When I tried to downgrade to XP Pro I found that the "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150" was somehow not one because the NVIDIA drivers didn't recognize it. In conjunction with the integration for AMD Turion, it was altered!

Ubuntu 8.04 did not recognize it.

It also would not work with the Broadcom wireless adapter b,g, (pre)N (a 4302 chipset I think)

Without video or wireless, I abandoned Ubuntu, going on to similar failure with Knoppix, and Mandriva -- nothing seems to support this thing.

I wanted to check here to see if anyone had any luck with 8.10.

A friend told me that the virtualization is really good -- much better than VMware, so I'll probably give 8.10 a try on my main desktop.

Is there a hardware compat. list?

Thanks,

cmay

March 8th, 2009, 11:23 AM

i purchased this laptop x-one and it works straight out of the box with ubuntu 8.10
http://www.linuxshoppen.dk/products.php?showvariant_id=6787

as a warning i been told that the model i have is a upgraded model and the original model that is used as base for these models is not working with linux due to some of the components in them. it was a matter of both sound and video card as i remeber it.
however this configuration as mine has works perfect with ubuntu.

Peter_L

March 11th, 2009, 02:37 PM

Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Alpha 5
Laptop
Sony
VAIO VGN-TT11M/N

To my surprise I've become an "alpha tester" of the upcoming release. "Jaunty" installed and runs well enough "out-of-the-box" on this Vaio. Only small niggles so far, but I haven't checked all hardware compatibility yet :D

Dual-booting with Vista OK.

Good work Ubuntu team!

Info:
I tried the three previous releases of Ubuntu on this laptop but all were unsuccessful! Each of the earlier releases exhibited some sort of display incompatibility (scrambled content) even when attempting to install in safe mode. Similarly using the "live" CD mode the display was useless. I also tried a text-only install of "Intrepid" but this fell-over at the partitioner stage.

Regards,
Peter_L

marinegundoctor

March 13th, 2009, 04:06 AM

1)Version Of Ubuntu
8.10 Intrepid Ibex
2)Type Of Hardware
Printer
3)Hardware Maker
Canon
4)Hardware Model
PIXMA MP460

Ubuntu installed a generic driver upon plugging the MP460 into my usb port. I was prompted to search for a better driver and it brought up the list of manufacturers. I selected Canon and the PIXMA MP160. The MP460 was not listed but I have read in posts from last year (2008 ) that the MP160 driver works.
I have not tried to scan anything yet, but the printing is perfect.

fargly

March 14th, 2009, 11:00 PM

uberlinux,
I have the same box and have been living in xorg hell for the last few days. Would you mind terribly disclosing what kind of graphics resolution and monitor you have that's working?

I have a Westinghouse LCM22W2 that I'm trying to configure to 1680x1050. Under Ubuntu 8.10, 1368x768 (16:9) is the closest I can get. I installed OpenSuSE 11.1 so I could access a tool (SaX2) other than VI :D to generate settings. I'm running at 1600x1200 which still isn't right.

If I could get a working xorg.conf, I could flip back to Ubuntu and get on with my life.

Any information you could furnish would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

-fargly

MSI Wind Desktop : Ubuntu 8.10
Everything works flawlessly!

MSI Wind details:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856167032

CPU Type Intel 1.6GHz Atom processor on board
FSB 533MHz
Chipset
North Bridge Intel 945GC
South Bridge ICH7
Memory Supported
Memory slot 1 x 200Pin
Memory Type Supported DDR2 533/400
Max Memory Supported 2GB
Expansion Slots
Other 1 x CF Slot
Storage
Serial ATA 2 x SATAII 300
Graphics
Onboard Video Intel GMA 950
Audio
Onboard Audio Realtek ALC858
Channel 8 Channel
Communications
LAN Realtek 8111C(10/100/1000Mbps)
Max LAN Speed 10/100/1000Mbps
Extension Bays
3.5" Internal Bays 1
5.25" External Bays 1
Front Panel Ports
Front USB 2
Front Audio Ports 2 jacks
Card Reader SD/MMC/MS/XD
Back Panel Ports
VGA 1 x D-sub
Rear USB 4
RJ45 1
Rear Audio Ports 6 jacks
Power Supply
Power Supply External 65W Power Adapter with Active PFC

betterhands

March 16th, 2009, 07:42 PM

Had great luck buying a new, relatively cheap Deskjet printer over the weekend:

1)Version Of Ubuntu - 8.10
2)Type Of Hardware - Printer
3)Hardware Maker - HP
4)Hardware Model - Deskjet 6940

worked out of the box. and sometime after successful install and some test printing, an HP printer manager was installed/configured. This printer was ready for Ubuntu.

frodon

March 17th, 2009, 06:18 PM

New hardware:
Asus PQ5-pro
RAM 1066MHz Crucial Ballistix
Intel E7400 working at 3.5Ghz instead of 2.8Ghz
Nvidia 9800GTX+
Samsung spinpoint F1 1To
LCD samsung t220

All is working great and out of the box with ubuntu 8.10 intrepid ibex.

twyufe

March 17th, 2009, 08:14 PM

Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Li 3910 notebook, with Core Duo T3200 (2 GHz) 3GB, 320GB, DVD+/-RW, 18.4-inch TFT.

Everything works with Kubuntu 8.10 x86_64, except for a few special keys (brightness). The touchpad does work after pressing Fn and F6 twice (instead of once for Vista). I haven't tried hibernating.

It does take some effort to get sound working; see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6589810#post6589810 for updating Alsa

Added on 4-4-2009: wireless works out of the box. However, when downloading big files, f.e. from my NAS, it stalls. The remedy is to install the latest version of the wireless drivers, as described here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=792092&page=26

Kubuntu 9.04 x86_64 installs as well, only this has to be added in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-dig index=0

bcbotha

March 18th, 2009, 09:33 AM

im running ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop. i have a amd dual core. how can i check if my processor is being used to the full? does ubuntu automatically read it as two processors?

opto-laptop

March 18th, 2009, 10:05 AM

bcbotha,

right-click on the panel bar, select Add to Panel. From the list add System monitor. Under the resources tab you'll see a graph that will help.

bcbotha

March 18th, 2009, 10:26 AM

Ok....thanks for that.

exozito

March 19th, 2009, 01:56 PM

Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid

Desktop Inkjet Printer

HP (Hewlett Packard)

DeskJet 840C

I just plugged it in once and after a few seconds, Ubuntu detected it as a printer and it worked. It's a very old printer btw, I had it since 1998 and its now just over ten years old.

diectus

March 21st, 2009, 12:38 PM

HP Pavillion tx2000
ATI SBx00 azalia built-in audio card
After Intrepid install, and 258 updates... no sound--
try - "sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base" in terminal no quotes
at the very end of the script add a line that says
"options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=toshiba position_fix=1" no quotes
save - exit - restart - bingo! hope this saves others the HOURS of digging it caused me.

thelugnut

March 22nd, 2009, 01:05 PM

SONY VAIO VGN-NS105N
Processor - 2xIntel Core2 Duo CPU T5870 @ 2.0 GHz
Memory 4 GB
Display 15" 1280x800
Hard disk - 250 GB ATA Toshiba
Ethernet controller - Marvel Technology Group Ltd. 88E8055 PCI-E
Gigabit Ehthernet Controller
Printer - HP psc 1215 all-in-one
Web cam - Vimicro C-91C
Modem - Siemens Modem/Router SL2 - 141

Purchased the unit with Windows XP Pro installed. (Cost me extra from to *cough* upgrade from Vista.
Using Gparted , I partitioned the hard disk as follows:
sda1 - 5 GB - ntfs - Recovery
sda2 - 34 GB - ntfs - Windows XP
sda3 - 193 GB - extended
sda5 - 34 GB - ext3 - Ubuntu 8.10
sda6 - 34 GB - ext3 - not presently used
sda7 - 121 GB - fat32 - data
sda8 - 4 GB - linux swap

With respect to Ubuntu 8.10, everything worked "outof the box". I installed "Cheese" to check out the web cam and it picked it up immediately. Same thing with the printer. It was unbelievably simple. I did nothing but sit here and watch everything work. What a blessing! I used my AIPTEK vidcam to record a few frames of video on the PNY SD 1 GB memory card, and when I inserted the card into the built-in card reader it read it with no problems. I am not a "gamer" so can't comment on the performance there. I can't think of anything else to report, but am open to questions, if there be any.:D

nortexoid

March 25th, 2009, 09:34 PM

Gateway NX100X
1.06Ghz Intel ULV Core Solo
Intel 945GM graphics
1GB DDR2 RAM
80GB SATA HDD
Intel "HDA" audio
UBUNTU 8.10 (wubi)

Audio doesn't work. Apparently some chap got it to work by flashing to the latest BIOS. I tried it and my computer failed to boot from any device. Had to purchase used NX100X motherboard just for the BIOS chip with original BIOS version! So maybe there is no problem with the latest BIOS, but the latest BIOS may not work! (I even reflashed the eeprom, removed from motherboard, on a chip programmer. Same problem.)

BFG

March 26th, 2009, 09:24 AM

8.10 Intrepid
A lot of this is cut and paste so please ignore obvious.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz 12M Cache S775 1333MHZ

Motherboard Gigabyte S775 Intel P45 GA-EP45-DS5
(haven't tested power efficiency yet, but all else works perfectly).

Corsair Memory 4GBKIT
ATI Sapphire 512Mb Radeon HD 4670 PCI-Express VGA Card "HD4670"
Worked on first install, improved using restricted drivers. Not perfect.

Samsung SyncMaster 2232BW - Perfect.
Enermax Technology 385W 82+ ATX 84-88% Energy Efficent PSU
Western Digital 150GB VelociRaptor 10,000RPM SATA 16MB - Perfect
LiteOn 20X DVD-RW SATA LS black + Nero - Perfect

Wacom Bamboo tablet. - Perfect, no driver needed.
Logitech 3dConnection Spacenavigator. Worked after driver install.

Microsoft digital media keyboard 3000
Standard keys and volume keys work out of the box. Extended keys don't work.

HP Officejet 7310 All-in-one.
Does not work on ethernet, works perfectly on USB connection.

OCZ Rally 16Gb USB Flash drive - Perfect.
Canon Powershot S3 - Perfect.

Buzzygirl

March 27th, 2009, 12:00 AM

HP Deskjet F380 (scanner-printer-copier) works 100% on all functions.

kennedy7

March 28th, 2009, 04:44 PM

I have an everex laptop the gbook VA1500V with gOS on it it mostly has via parts inside of it it has a chrom 9 igp graphics chip and ubuntu 7.10 works but uses the generic driver for it ubuntu 8.04 uses openchrome it is very buggy and doesnt work well, and 8.10 freezes unless i install in safe graphics mode. And also the audio jack doesnt work but the built in speaker works. But so far thats been the only bad computer ive ever put ubuntu on. All the other computers ive put it on have worked out of the box and done fine.

snocutt

March 31st, 2009, 03:32 AM

1.)8.10 intrepid ibex
3.)lenovo
4.)g530

there are only two factory configurations for this model. I got the upgraded version. Everything works out of the box as they say. The one small issue is the "onekey" and "user defined" keys are not recognized at all.

ruf10

March 31st, 2009, 07:28 PM

rileinc

April 1st, 2009, 04:52 AM

Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, 9.04

CPU: Intel C2D E6750
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R rev 2.1
Video: Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 512MB G92
RAM: OCZ Reaper DDR2-800 2x2GB OCZ2RPR800C44GK
HDD: all Seagate barracuda series; Western Digital 74GB Raptor; Hitachi 1GB 7200rpm
Keyboard: NEC CKBM-001 (multimedia keys work, but do not function according to their labels. e.g., the eject button actually mutes all sound. This problem is experienced in Windows as well).
Mouse: Dynex DX-WOM2 5 buttons
Webcam: Logitech QuickCam Pro 5000 (works with Skype out of the box)

durward

April 2nd, 2009, 05:36 PM

HP Pavilion dv8315nr - EZ580UA
AMD Turion 64 mobile Technology ML-34 1.8GHz
1.00 GB Ram DDR - 2x512GB SODIMMs
HDD:
1) Hitachi TravelStar IC25N060ATMR04-0 - 60GB - ATA
2) Seagate Momentus ST9100825A - 100GB - ATA
Optical: LG HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4084N
Nic
1) Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN
2) Realtek RTL8139/810x Family FastEthernet
Video: ATI Mobility Radeon Xpress 200 Series
Sound: Conexant AC-Link Audio
OS: Windows XP Media Center Edition w/ SP2
Sun xVM Virtualbox Graphical User Interface version 2.1.4
Ubuntu 8.04 - Hardy Heron -
Linux 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP i686 GNU/Linux

I installed the Sun xVM and then installed Ubuntu 8.04 as a virtual box. Sun xVM setup the networking automatically using the wired controller Realtek card routing to the Windows Broadcom wireless and my home network was available. I can connect to my local computers and to the internet. No fussing or fighting with Broadcom wireless incompatiblity in Linux.

I did the same using my HP Pavilion dv9008nr and my HP Pavilion dv9205nr. However, the Sun xVM on those uses the Broadcom wireless as the nic; these setup without any problems and run fine. Infact, Ubuntu runs faster under the Sun xVM box on my HP Pavilion dv9008nr than with Ubuntu installed directly on the harddrive as the main OS.

I also installed the Sun xVM on my desktop, a homemade unit with an AMD Phenom 9600 on an Asus M3A78 motherboard. I have Ubuntu 8.10 and Sun OpenSolaris under Sun XVM. I had tried Microsoft Virtual Box software, but it did not allow any USB connections through to Ubuntu; Sun xVM does.

maxino

April 4th, 2009, 06:06 PM

Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex.

Old IBM "NetVista" desktop, P4 2GHz.

Wireless mouse Nortek Activo WL Laser 2.4 with:
- left button, right button,
- wheel for vertical and horizontal scroll,
- forward/backward browsing,
- DPI selector (800/1600 dpi)

All buttons/functions work flawlessly after just plugging the receiver in.

Skara Brae

April 5th, 2009, 07:54 PM

A colleague at work gave me the old, defective laptop of her kid-son, saying I could keep it for free if I could get it to work.
It just needed a new harddrive: it still works fine :-)

-oo-

Ubuntu version: Xubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
Type of Hardware: Laptop
Hardware maker, model: Compaq "Armada", E500

CPU: Pentium III, 500 MHz
CHIPSET: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX
GPU: Ati Rage Mobility, 8 MB RAM
RAM: 2 x 128 MB SDRAM (PC100)
HDD: WesternDigital Scorpio, E-IDE, 160 Gb (3 partitions: /root, /home, swap)
CDROM: 24x slimline CD-rom
AUDIO: Maestro 2E soundchip (ES1978 )
PCMCIA: Texas Instruments PCI1225
- PCMCIA 1: a 2-port USB 2.0-card (NEC Corp.)
- PCMCIA 2: a wired network card (brand Belkin, model F5D-5010)

All works fine (except for the screen, which turns black after about every minute, unless I use the keyboard/type, and for which I am searching the forums at this moment...).

I now use this laptop only for surfing and some simple word processing.

I had installed XP Pro "Corporate Edition" (...) on it, but that goes abit (too) slow on this old machine. I decided to try Xubuntu, hoping things would go (much) faster, but I am not really that impressed by the speed of Xubuntu (compared to XP Pro).
Still, I may keep Xubuntu on it.

Oh, btw, Ubuntu (7.10), on my desktop PC, rocks!!! OpenSUSE (10.3) on the other hand, in triple-boot with Ubuntu and XP Home, is crap... soon going to be replaced by Kubuntu.

dewbuntu

April 6th, 2009, 02:54 AM

I have been using the following PC with Ubuntu for several years without error, just installed 9.04 Beta on an additional HD that I have, but have been running 8.10.

Compaq Evo D510 SFF
2.4 Ghz Intel
1 GB RAM
160 GB Maxtor
Cisco Aironet Wireless
nVidia GeForce 5200

Dewayne

jayleemor

April 6th, 2009, 02:29 PM

My main rig is dual-boot with Vista 64bit (for gaming) and Ubuntu 8.10 64bit (for everything else)

1. Case: Cooler Master HAF
2. CPU: Intel Core2Quad (Q9650)
3. Mobo: EVGA NFORCE 790i SLI FTW
4. RAM: 8GB mushkin DDR3 1600Mhz (4x2GB)
5. GPU: (3x) EVGA GTX 280 (tri-SLI for Vista)
6. Sound: SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty (PCI-e)
7. HDD: (2x) WD 500GB Caviar Black (Vista/Ubuntu 8.10)
8. PSU: ENERMAX REVOLUTION 85+ 1050W
9. Cooling: (2x) Coolit dual bay water coolers:
a. 1 for CPU and 1st GPU
b. 1 for 2nd and 3rd GPU's

All but SLI works fine. Had to change Sound Card version in Creative sound card driver prior to install due to being PCI-e version.

rony0303

April 10th, 2009, 11:23 AM

evice 029a', but runs at native resolution and full color depth. Adding the N

cuteboysmith

April 10th, 2009, 01:58 PM

Ubuntu version: 8.10
Type Of Hardware: graphics card
Hardware Maker:NVIDIA
Hardware Model: fx 5200
ubuntu does not recognise the card but when booted in windows xp it works fine...
help...

Yvan300

April 11th, 2009, 07:37 PM

For the guy above me, this is not the place to post problems :)

My computer is a dell inspiron 1501
Processor : AMD sempron 3600+
GPU: Ati raedon xpress 1150 but in ubuntu it says ati radeon 200 ?

Without the propieratary drivers you can't play games or use compiz. Like 5 fps when playing supertux racer with free drivers

Hibernation does not work but Suspend does.

kdashjl

April 12th, 2009, 06:44 AM

Tested: Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 32 and 64 bits / Current: Intrepid 8.10 64 bits

• Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core E2160 - 1,8 GHz, FSB 800 MHz, Cache 1 MB
• Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-945GCM-S2C, FSB 1333 MHz, 2xDDR2 667 dual channel, 8xUSB 2,0
• RAM: 2 GB, Kingston, DDR2 667
• Hard Disk: 40 GB, 6K040L0 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8, 2 MB Cache, IDE/133 and 160 GB 6Y160M0 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9, 8 MB Cache, SATA I
• DVD: Lite-On IDE DVD RW DH20A4H LightScribe
• Video Card: Gigabyte GV-NX71G512P8-RH, GPU NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS, PCI-E, 128 MB On Board, 512 MB With TurboCache, With Adapted Fan.
• Audio: 6 channel Realtek ALC662 codec
• Network Card: RTL 8101E chip (10/100 Mbit)
• Display: LG Studioworks 45i (1024*768@60hz) very ugly but still works
Everything Working!

Beowulf.1000

April 12th, 2009, 09:28 PM

Ubuntu 9.04 beta AMD64 live CD boots with 7.1 audio (on board the motherboard) and wireless internet (wifi card recognized) and wireless mouse and graphics and GUI on my new homebuilt system:

ASUS M4A79 Deluxe motherboard
AMD Phenom II quadcore cpu 3Ghz
(motherboard and cpu were purchased as a combo at newegg.com)
4GB RAM (1066Mhz, 2 x 2GB 250pin DIMMs)
GeForce PCIe 7900 graphics card
3 Samsung 500GB SATA drives
Linksys RangePlus Wireless PCI Adapter wifi card, model WMP110
USB keyboard
Microsoft MX500 wireless mouse

Vostrocity

April 13th, 2009, 08:15 AM

Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
Dell Vostro 1500 Laptop
1.4Ghz C2D, 2GB, 120GB, 128MB GeForce 8400m GS, Broadcom BCM4311 WiFi.
Everything so far works out of the box except the digital array mics.

balbecdaze

April 16th, 2009, 10:06 PM

Jaunty

CPU: intel Core2Duo 4400
Mobo: Gigabyte ga-ep35-ds3l
RAM: 2 x OCZ Platinum 1Gb DDR2 800MHz
GPU: Inno3d Nvidia GeForce 8600GT
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500Gb + Maxtor Maxblast 80Gb

Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 2000
Trust 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers

Pretty much all worked perfectly - had to download Nvidia drivers and was a bit flummoxed by the Surround Sound options in ALSA mixer for a bit (just turn the volume up -doh!). Seagate hard disk not read by Intrepid Ibex 8.10 (it is SATA, the Maxtor is IDE) but Jaunty read them both straight away.

alexpwalsh

April 18th, 2009, 02:47 PM

Processor: Core i7-920
Ram: 9gb-DDR3
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD4870 1GB model - works fine with default drivers, ati drivers break

HousieMousie2

April 21st, 2009, 03:27 AM

Home-built: All Works
Mother board: MSI P7N Diamond LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI ATX Intel
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80570E8400
Video Card: NVIDIA XFX PVT96GYDSU GeForce 9600 GT XXX Alpha Dog Edition 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16
RAM: G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel
HDD: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5"
Audio Card: ASUS Xonar D2X 7.1 Channels PCI Express

BIOS: Had to be updated before the CPU would work with that MoBo... not a Linux problem, just a hardware reality worth mentioning.

Video card: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29 driver (from the NVIDIA web site) seems to work well, certainly better than the 170 series. Driver must be reinstalled every time a new kernel image is released, but this is quick and easy.

Audio Card: Worked out of the box with ALSA version 1.0.16... with some resource-sharing issues, but nothing major.

evongugg

April 22nd, 2009, 05:19 PM

Jaunty 9.04

Phenom 9600
Corsair DDR2-800 4 GB
Asus 790GX motherboard: M4A78-E
EVGA 9800 GT
Onboard audio
Onboard NIC
2 SATA Hard disks
1 SATA DVD drive
USB mouse and keyboard

No sensors detected. Everything else works fine.

HunterNIN

April 22nd, 2009, 05:28 PM

Jaunty 9.04

Intel Pentium IV 2.66GHz
MSI ms-6769 mobo
Geforce Ti4400
bunch of generic parts, it's a cannibal system

As with previous releases everything works great. Although Jaunty is having issues with video when set to normal or extra.

dE_logics

April 23rd, 2009, 02:29 PM

Ubuntu 8.10

Graphs card

ATI

x1270 (IGP)(RS690)

No propitiatory drivers available (none work), open source drivers do not completely support 3-d, bad performance.

Following this article -

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

Will take you to the command line (i.e. ruin the graphs drivers completely).

Reconfiguring xorg.conf will bring back the GUI but after that the GUI works extremely slow and enhanced effects will not get enabled.

SpyroViper

April 24th, 2009, 01:24 PM

Xubuntu 9.04

MSI Wind U100

Intel Atom 1.6Ghz
1GB RAM
Intel GMA Graphics
10" LCD Screen

Sound - ok
Wireless (Realtek) - ok
Stability/Functionality - ok
Trackpad/Keyboard/Screen Sizing - ok

The best distro I've used on a netbook.

klc5555

April 25th, 2009, 07:14 PM

1) Ubuntu 9.04 desktop.

2) Netgear WG511 (ver.1) wireless 802.11g PCMCIA adapter.

IBM Thinkpad T23, with onboard wireless 802.11b adapter.

Ubuntu does not detect the Netgear WG511 (version 1) at installation or bootup. Ubuntu does detect and configure the onboard 802.11b adapter.

Netgear WG511 (version 1) is activated from a terminal with: sudo modprobe prism54 This command (modprobe prism54) can later be added to /etc/rc.local to automatically start the card at boot.

Onboard IBM Thinkpad T23 wireless B adapter seems to interfere with Netgear WG511 card's ability to route. The onboard wireless adapter can be disabled by blacklisting the two modules orinoco_pci and hostap_pci in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and then rebooting.

Sewje

April 25th, 2009, 10:06 PM

I'm impressed, Jaunty works incredibly with my Acer 5920g.

Touchpad works completely!
Wireless works
Sound works
Media keys work and glow!
Damn even the SD Card Reader works!
Probably better to say what dosn't work, the IR Receiver ha!

Using livecd.

Joomla12

April 26th, 2009, 12:16 AM

Since I'm still new and just found this thread, here's my setup.

OS: Ubuntu 9.04
Hardware: nVidia 7150m/630m GeForce card. Running with nVidia 180 release
Broadcom 4311 v2 wireless card. Running with BCMFWcutter 43xx.
Conexant HD Audio speakers. Using default system drivers.
nVidia GeForce Ethernet modem. Using default drivers.
Computer Model: HP Pavillion Notebook PC dv6607rs.

DrJohn999

April 26th, 2009, 12:44 AM

1)Version Of Ubuntu: 9.04 Jaunty i386 Desktop
2)Type Of Hardware: laptop
3)Hardware Maker: Samsung
4)Hardware Model: nc-10

Loaded all defaults, straight install, nothing special done.
Screen up in correct 16:9 1024x600 resolution
Wireless (ath5k_pci driver) and wired nets are up
touchpad is up
Bluetooth (HID -- wireless mouse anyway) is up
Keyboard blueFN keys are up (surprise!!)
Sound is up
Ran System Testing... nice feature!
IHMO -- huge improvement for this platform over 8.10. You guys nailed it!

gyaneshwar

April 26th, 2009, 12:16 PM

Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04
HP Officejet J4580 All in one works immediately.

Both do not work with Cannon 1500 printer.

Linksys bluetooth dongle usbbt100v2 does not work in both.

9.04
Ati Radeon x1650 does not work with proprietary drivers.
and previous version has to be removed.
(sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx)
Detailed version is on this forum.

bodcod

April 26th, 2009, 01:34 PM

Version Of Ubuntu: Ubuntu 9.04/8.04LTS

Type Of Hardware: External USB Desktop 3.5" HDD

Hardware Maker: Maxtor

Hardware Model: Maxtor Basics 1TB (Model Number STM310005EHD301-RK)

This is plug and play in Ubuntu 9.10 i386 Desktop, I plug it in to the usb port icon appears on desktop I double click on icon it takes a few seconds to do its thing then brings up nautilus windows with a 1Tb hard drive working and ready to go.

I have formated this with the gparted cd to fat32 for compatibility, it does come formatted to NTFS out of the box.

I can boot the pc with the drive plugged in with no problems either.IT does go onto standby mode to save power and i have had no problems with it coming out of that mode, it just spins back up no problems.

Have also tested with success in Linux mint 5 i386 Desktop which is based on Ubuntu 8.10 LTS, works just as it does in ubutu 9.04 Except it 8.10 does seem to not want to eject the volume manually it jsut says Error ejecting volume waits a few secons and mounts it again. ON this note i have installed pysdm storage device manager from synaptic and this allows me to unmount.

retiredtechie

April 27th, 2009, 07:19 PM

OS: Ubuntu 9.04

Custom System:

Motherboard: ASUS P5B-E
CPU: Intel Core 2 duo 6600 2.4 GHz
RAM: 2 Gb
Video: nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX (3D driver version 180)
Sound: on-board AD1988
NIC: on-board Attansic Gigabit

Peripherals:

Display: Viewsonic VX2235wm
Scanner: Epson Perfection 1250
Wacom 3.5 x 5 tablet
Keyboard: USB
Mouse: USB
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 analog video capture

Printer: Canon Pixma iP5000 (attached to Vista PC on home Lan)

Notes:

Monitor not recognized when connected via digital (DVI) input.
Maximum display resolution was 640x480.
Display was recognized when connected via monitor VGA input.
Compiz now works like a top.
Video capture worked using TV-Viewer after all dependencies were installed.

So far, all is great!

frodon

April 28th, 2009, 11:05 AM

Hello,

There have been an increase of off topic post in this thread lately so i thought that should post a reminder.
This thread is for listing compatible hardware only, questions and idle chat are not welcome in this thread (the support area are made for this purpose).

Thank you very much for following these guidelines.

del_diablo

April 28th, 2009, 11:52 AM

Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pa 3553
Ubuntu 9.04 i386

What does NOT work:
*The buildt-inn Ralink card(2860 i belive), nor have i managed to get it to work
*It sounds like a jet engine(its however a bit more quiet than under 8.x), the hotkey for "downclocking" is not working either

What works:
*Hotkeys except downclock and wlan and LCD light controlls
*All ports work, yet to test the SDcard reader thoo
*Grapics(also got the correct resolution outofthebox)
*everything else

Edit: Installing the restricted ATI drivers WILL kill the system, or put another way: The screen remains black after GRUB.

ptn107

April 29th, 2009, 03:46 AM

1)9.04 64-bit
2)Video Card
3)nVidia
4)GeForce 7800 GS (rev a2)

skygazer

April 30th, 2009, 05:48 AM

I have a vista home basic enabled laptop which was corrupted by the virtumonde virus and i couldnt get it to bootup. So i decided to install linux. I took a iso file of ubuntu 8.04 LTS to my friends XP machine and created a bootable Live USB using unetbootin. Install went perfectly, no hickups.This is my first linux install on a real computer and so far, i am amazed at how simple it is. Being from a windows background made me think i would have to deal with cryptic command lines and still not get anything working. But letme tell you, it all freaking works right out of the box. Here's my configuration

Compaq Presario V3702AU Laptop

AMD Turion 64 X2, 1.9GHz
1 x 1GB, DDR2-667 Samsung
160 GB, 4200 rpm HDD Western Digital
Nvidia Geforce 7150M GS graphics card (287 MB shared RAM)
Nvidia MCP67M Chipset (Nforce 630M)
Integrated WLAN 802.11b/g Broadcom
Connexant HD Audio
SD Card Reader
Built In webcam 1.3 Mpixel

Installation took 15 minutes + 1.5 hrs to download/install updates. Then it prompted me to download and install propriotory drivers for wlan and gfx which i did and they work smooth. Then i installed compiz+emerald for 3d desktop.

I got the following hardware up and running out of box.
Audio, SD card reader, Webcam, Bluetooth, Volume up/down/mute buttons, Media player buttons play/pause/next/prev etc, Brightness up/down, hibernate button, inbuilt and external microphones, all led indicator lights.

Yet to check out the following:
External monitor, PCI-express slot, firewire, s- video port, quick launch button, HDSOFT Data/Audio modem

I hope this helps other Compaq V3702X users out there who want to migrate to Linux.

Regards,
Skygazer

non-prophet

April 30th, 2009, 09:15 AM

Oops

non-prophet

April 30th, 2009, 09:19 AM

Ubuntu 9.04 on Compaq Presario C700 (C774TU)

Celeron 550 2 GHz
RAM 1 GB
HDD 80 GB
Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset
DVD GSA-T40N
ALPS PS/2 GlidePoint Touchpad
WLAN Artheros AR5007 b/g (AR242x)

Installed without a problem. (I have had problems with other Distros with this Notebook.)

WLAN works well. Only had to activate proprietary driver (sorry !!) for WLAN using System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers and enabling the use of the driver. Small problem - WLAN on/off switch does NOT work and WLAN light is RED whether WLAN is ON or OFF.

I hate touchpads whic default to 'tap for mouse click'. You can turn it off from System -> Preferences -> Mouse -> Touchpad and disabling 'mouse clicks with touchpad'.

I tried running from battery and the Battery Indicator (when made 'always on') showed 100% for well over 1 hour operation. Forum search has not found a solution yet.

Cheers,
non-prophet

Herber

May 1st, 2009, 04:30 PM

Dell 8200
1GB Ram
2+MHz processor

Installed after truning on Safe Video installation

Herber

May 1st, 2009, 04:32 PM

Dell Inspiron 7000 Laptop
300MHz Processor
ATI graphics
300+MB Ram
No problems With Ubuntu 6.1-8.1

CANNOT INSTALL JAUNTY 9.04 SYSTEM HANGS DURING OS LOAD

YMS_1975

May 1st, 2009, 09:53 PM

Version Of Ubuntu: Ubuntu 9.04
Type Of Hardware: Networking Wireless Card
Hardware Maker: Linksys by Cisco
Hardware Model: WMP300N

Installed this card on Ubuntu 8.10 but couldn't get the OS to recognize the card. My understanding is that there is a workaround to this problem, but I just couldn't get it to work (even after trying the workaround).

I then upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 and the card was instantly recognized. It works great & no tweaking was necessary.:)

I also wrote a quick review of this hardware at http://www.ubuntuhcl.org/browse/product+linksys-wmp300n?id=6857

jayhel

May 1st, 2009, 11:54 PM

1)Version Of Ubuntu: 9.04 Netbook Remix
2)Type Of Hardware: Netbook
3)Hardware Maker: Hercules
4)Hardware Model: Hercules eCAFE EC-900/H60G-IA (Linux)

I removed the preinstalled version of Linux that came with the netbook.
I installed Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix on the 60 Gig hard disk from a USB Key...

Waw!

What a difference!!!

Everything is working!

- Wifi: 100%
- Sound: 100%
- Webcam: 100%
- Touchpad: 100%

Proprietary drivers: 0%

This little package is so nice! I can't go anywhere without it!

akakingess

May 2nd, 2009, 06:20 AM

Just FYI, I am new to this, but wanted to post what I have found thus far with my Gateway M-1628 Notebook (AMD64 Turion x2) W/ 3 GB RAM...Intrepid had trouble with wireless network card/chipset, installed Jaunty clean and have not had 1 problem, here is the lshw from my laptop:

description: Computer
width: 64 bits
capabilities: vsyscall64 vsyscall32
*-memory
description: System memory
physical id: 0
size: 2942MiB
*-cpu
product: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 1
bus info: cpu@0
size: 2GHz
capacity: 2GHz
width: 64 bits

Sorry if it's too much info, like I said I am a noobie at this and just wanted to let everyone know how it's going with this model GW M-1628.

Earl

BTW - Running Jaunty 64-bit and runs like a champ

robertron76

May 7th, 2009, 10:08 PM

Laptop
Processor : T6400 2.00GHz,Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
4GB RAM
Sony VGN-FW390
HDD : TOSHIBA MK2552GSX
Dual Boot with Vista Ultimate 64-bit
ATI Mobility Radeon HD3650
250 GB HDD

Ciao

wjstarck

May 8th, 2009, 09:53 PM

Laptop
Sony VAIO SR290
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9600 @ 2.80GHz 64 Bit
Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series
Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100
4 GB RAM
SCSI HD 280 MB
Jaunty 9.04 64 Bit; fresh format and install

Installation was straightforward. Bluetooth works, wireless works. Compiz works, display is bright. Display brightness keys do not work, but sound keys do. Not sure if the lid latch puts the laptop to sleep properly, as I had it fully charged overnight and unplugged it before going to work, but when I came home today the battery was drained. I'll check on that and try to report back ASAP. Anything else you want checked please let me know :P

fela

May 10th, 2009, 09:24 AM

Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit
Graphics Card
Palit
Nvidia Geforce 9800 GT 512MB

It works fine with the proprietary Nvidia drivers. With the open source nv driver, the fan is stuck on 100%.

Also, when booting up (before GDM is loaded), the fan is always on 100%. I suppose this is a VESA bug?.

fela

May 10th, 2009, 09:28 AM

Ubuntu 8.10 32 bit
Laptop
IBM
Thinkpad T42

So far I haven't found anything that doesn't work.
WiFi, ethernet, USB, Graphics (compiz works), Suspend, Hibernate, Brightness hotkeys, etc. all 'just work'. :D

SoftPops

May 11th, 2009, 12:54 PM

Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04
Laptop
Fujitsu-Siemens
Lifebook e4010

Other than an oversensitive synaptics touchpad, works perfectly after install/upgrade.

Ceiling Fan Man

May 11th, 2009, 09:25 PM

My latest system:

Motherboard: Asus M3N-HT Deluxe HDMI
Processor: AMD Phenom II 940 3.0GHz Black Edition (Deneb)
Video Card: XFX nVidia GeForce 260 896MB Black Edition
RAM: OCZ Reaper 4GB 1066 2.2V
Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower 850W, Modular
HD0: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB
/* This drive is partitioned four times, with WinXP SP3 (32-bit) as the primary, then Ubuntu Jaunty (64-bit), a third one with Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit), and the 4th is a swap space. */
HD1: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB
//Storage

This hardware configuration gave me a lot of difficulty with 8.10 Intrepid. All kinds of Buffer I/O errors when I was trying to install, and after I finally got it installed, the system speaker would beep constantly at me, and my monitor would go to sleep during boot and shutdown, which was especially annoying when FSCK decided to run, because I couldn't see it to tell what was going on.

9.04 Jaunty seems to have fixed all these glitches. I did a fresh install over my Intrepid installation, had video the whole time and and zero Buffer I/O errors. I continue to have video during every boot and shutdown now as well. I can't say for sure if Jaunty fixed the system speaker beep, because I haven't plugged it back in yet, but I believe that it has. Previously, as it was booting, the system beep would quickly, only for a second, sound over my external speakers when the system speaker was unhooked. This has not happened yet in Jaunty.

VERY happy with Jaunty, as it seems to have fixed all of my hardware incompatibility problems. :)

cabez0n

May 12th, 2009, 04:27 PM

Ubuntu 9.04
Laptop
Acer
Aspire 5520

Internal Mic is not working as well as POWER OFF can't turn the laptop off, and it needs a couple of key-presses to turn completly off.

mouchkine

May 12th, 2009, 11:54 PM

Laptop Acer Aspire 5570-4315 with Ubuntu 9.0.4 Final
Intel Core Duo T2450 (2ghz), 1 gig PC-5300 Samsung, 160 gigs Samsung.

Intel GMA 950 (945) Working Out of the Box
Sound HDA OOB (with some glitches though...)
Wireless Intel 3945 OOB (from Live CD)
SD Card Reader TI OOB
Webcam Acer Orbicam (with some fix... see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1136990)

Bluetooth USB Dongle (ISSC EDR BTA) Piece of C... on Windows... OOB in Ubuntu!!! :P
Nokia E65, 6600 and Motorola V635 phones synched (thanks Ubuntu!)
Ipod Video 0 gigs detected by MPlayer...

Mouchkine-laptop -> Triple Boot... Ubuntu (main)...Swap... Windows 7... Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Hackintosh)... works great!

nerak

May 14th, 2009, 01:29 AM

Laptop - Dell Vostro 1400

Processor : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5270 @ 1.40GHz
HDD: ATA FUJITSU MHY2120B, 120GB
Memory : 2060MB
Operating Systems: Dual booting Windows XP & Ubuntu 9.04
Video card: GeForce 8400M GS/PCI/SSE2
Audio Adapter: HDA-Intel, 82801H, Dell device 0227 (Minor glitches)

The only issue seems to be the audio. It plays the audio, but songs sound a bit...screechy. Like there's something REALLY high pitched and it just makes my brain melt.

gan1708

May 14th, 2009, 10:46 PM

Type : Laptop
Model : Lenovo-IBM ThinkPad SL400 (14'')

OS: Ubuntu 9.04 32bit (ext4 install)

CPU : Intel Core2Duo T5870 2.0GHz
RAM : 3GB DDR-2
Graphics : Intel 4500
Wireless : Intel 5100 (Centrino)

CPU scaling works fine

Wireless works fine. No issues so far. Speeds are decent and signal strength is good.

Graphics work fine. Default screen resolution was set to 800x600 on first boot, but changing it to 1280x800 once in the Display Manager sorted it out. There seems to be slight tearing when playing videos on MPlayer and VLC, but I know this is a well documented issue with the Intel drivers and am confident updated drivers will fix the problem in the near future. Compiz seems to run fine. Played the Linux version of Bioware's Neverwinter Nights and it ran quite smoothly.

Sound works well. Volume levels are very good with headphones on (pretty good bass reproduction if plugged to good headphones).

USB ports work and transfer speeds are excellent. Tested with pendrives and Hitachi, Lacie and Transcend external drives.

DVD-RW works fine. Only problem I had was audio CD's I burned failed to play in my car CD player, but switching to GnomeBaker instead of the included Brasero solved that issue.

Webcam works with Cheese (not tested with Skype yet)

Card reader works with SD and SDHC cards (tested up to 4GB Sandisk Extreme III)

Trackpoint works and sensitivity is decent. Trackpoint center scroll button works as well. Touchpad works well with good sensitivity.

I get between 170 - 210 minutes of battery life with WiFi turned on, depending on what apps I run and whether I have a USB mouse and headphones attached. Pretty decent, considering the manufacturer rated battery life under Windows is said to be 3 hours. It came with a 6-cell battery as standard.

Wired LAN connection works. Not sure if the 56k modem works or not (I don't need it). Not tested Firewire, HDMI and ExpressCard slots yet.

System boots in around 25 seconds (maybe less) with concurrency enabled.

Suspend works well with very fast wake up time. Hibernate works but it takes rather long to wake up. I don't bother with hibernate anymore since it boots up so fast anyway.

System stays cool throughout heavy use. Fans hardly come on (or their very quiet when on, I dunno)

Minor niggles:
Volume buttons don't work (my main gripe).
Some FN key combinations don't work.
FN screen brightness control only seems to be able to change between 2 levels.
There's this very loud beep that occurs when I Shut Down or Restart. I've already turned off system sounds, but it's still there. (PC Beep type sound)

I'm pretty happy with the way this ThinkPad performs with Jaunty 9.04. Hope the small issues I stated above get resolved with future updates.

Cheers~

mustangzach

May 18th, 2009, 08:21 AM

Okay, I'm very happy with Ubuntu. I will say, this is a viable alternative to Windows, even for people who don't know computers. This is the house we built, and we built it bigger. It is superior to Windows XP and Vista, and it looks better than Windows 7 could dream of looking. It's also bulletproof, I have blue screened my XP installation accidentally multiple times, I can't crash this when trying.

My system is as followed:

Acer Aspire One ZG5
Ubuntu 9.04 (no Netbook Remix just the default install)
Intel Atom 1.6GHz, 32-bit, I can't remember the model number atm
1GB 667MHz DRR2 RAM
Atheros AR5BXB63 Wireless
I can't remember my NIC, but it works
Sound works great, albeit it's a bit quite it seems, but I think it's just me
Webcam works on default install
Integrated graphics work fine.

There's no reason to use restricted drivers, NDISwrapper, anything really.. Ubuntu just works, I mean, the boot time is even faster than Windows. Thanks for proving the whole "*Nix takes longer to boot than Windows/DOS-like systems" myth wrong. With Windows XP on an NTFS drive, my boot time would be about 2 minutes. With this, I can be rocking out to my NOFX albums in about 30 seconds. Great job! The only thing I don't like is the little light on the wireless thing don't come on, and the on/off switch doesn't notify me. I'm not really compaining though..

The only issue I had was when I installed from Windows, the wireless drivers didn't work. At first, it would detect the hardware, but wouldn't connect, and after I chose to use the restricted drivers, it didn't work at all. I even tryed NDISWrapper to no avail, the drivers "worked" but the hardware wasn't detected. It does work however, on my old Thinkpad with the Linksys WPC54G v3.1 PCMCIA card though, and that's great. I ran Xubuntu on the Thinkpad, I will mention. Even the el weirdo flash drive I bought works.

So yes.. I'm very happy with Ubuntu 9.04, in my opinion, the years of the Linux desktop start here. I am encouraging Windows users to upgrade to this, mainly by helping them install it face to face. Wish me luck, I will publish my results here once I'm done doing this.

-Zach

neo_1in

May 18th, 2009, 09:22 AM

I have been using ubuntu since 5.04. Mine is a pretty old PC, which i have upgraded a little.

Ubuntu 9.04
Compaq Presario S5030IL Desktop PC

Everything works out of the box great on the original hardware, i.e.
P4 2.5 GHz
15 inch Compaq 5500 (Coloreal) CRT Monitor
128 MB RAM (266 MHz)
CD-ROM
40 GB Seagate HDD
OnBoard SiS 650 Graphics Card (NO 3D though)
OnBoard Ethernet & Modem
and everything else.

Upgrades:
80 GB Seagate Barracuda HDD
512 (333 MHz) + 1024 MB (400 MHz) Kingston RAM
Moser Baer DVD (DVD-R DL) Writer
USB Modem.
All just work.

XFX nVidia GeForce 6200 256 MB Graphics Card (3D works with restricted drivers)

qfhcorrea

May 18th, 2009, 04:37 PM

Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
Laptop Acer Aspire 5315-2780
Intel Celeron processor 560 to 2,13GHz, 533MHz FSB, 1MB L2 cache
Intel Graphic MEDIA Accelerator X3100 up to 250MB
1 GB DDR2
15.4" WXGA Acer cristalbrite LCD
80GB (ext4 ¡¡¡¡)
DVD super multi DL
802.11 b/g WLAN

Greetings¡¡¡¡ of Chile

gradinaruvasile

May 20th, 2009, 01:58 PM

Here it goes...

Type: Desktop
MB: ASUS M2V TVM
CPU: AMD Athlon 3200+ AM2
Memory: 2 GB DDR2 (667 Mhz dual channel)
Video: Galaxy Geforce 7600GS/128MB DDR3
HDD: 250 GB SATA2 (Hitachi something)
Ubuntu 7.10, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04
Everything (compiz, sound, 3d Acceleration, games) worked with all of the above Ubuntu versions out of the box. Of course with the Nvidia proprietary drivers.

Type: Desktop
MB: ASUS A7N8X
CPU: AMD Athlon 2500+
Memory: 1 GB DDRAM (400Mhz dual channel)
Video: Nvidia Geforce MX 440/64MB
HDD:40GB (dunno what type it is exactly)
Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10
Everything (compiz, sound, 3d Acceleration, games) worked with all of the above Ubuntu versions out of the box. Nvidia proprietary legacy drivers.

Type: Desktop
Dell Optiplex 755 / Intel Core2Duo E6550/ 2GB RAM (800 Mhz)/ 250 GB HDD Nvidia Quadro NVS 285 / 128 MB DDR2 / dual monitors
Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, 9.04
Everything (compiz, sound, 3d Acceleration, games) worked with all of the above Ubuntu versions out of the box. Of course with the Nvidia proprietary drivers. I think this is the most stable system of the ones i used.

Type: Desktop
Dell Inspiron 530 / Intel Core2Duo E4500 / 1GB RAM (800 Mhz) / 2x 500 GB HDD (SAMSUNG HD501LJ) / ATI RV530 [Radeon X1600] / 256 DDR3 (opensource radeon drivers)
Ubuntu 9.04
Sound, desktop effects working perfectly

Issues are all linked with the radeon opensource drivers
Problem with video overlay (OpenGL) applications like google Earth or (runs smoothly without Compiz)
Some games (foobillard, yo frankie and in some cases nexuiz) lock the system - in these cases i was able to log in via ssh and reboot the system (killing the Xorg, gdm or the game processes didnt work, only the reboot command)
Some games (Enemy territory, Regnum Online) wont even start.
Others run very fast and stable (Urban terror, Openarena, billard-gl).

Type: Desktop
Dell Inspiron 530 / Intel Core2Duo E4500 / 3 GB RAM (800 Mhz) / 200 GB HDD / ATI AIW RV515 (?not sure) [Radeon X1300] / 256 DDR3 (opensource radeon drivers) / Dual Head 1680 x 1050
Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04
Sound, desktop effects working perfectly (the latter a bit smoother maybe then the fglrx on Ubuntu8.10, although the glxgears score went down 30 %)
All in all it seems 9.04 it is a bit more stable then the 8.10 - this computer had some crashes in 8.10 and 8.04 it seems related to the fglrx drivers...

Type: Laptop
Dell Latitude C640
Memory: 768 MB Ram
CPU: Intel Pentium M 1800 Mhz (i think)
HDD: 40 GB
Video: Ati Radeon Mobility 7500 / 32 Mb dedicated VRAM
Wireless: Orinoco something 802.11 b (no WPA yet in these versions)
Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10
Sound, Desktop effects working perfectly (surprisingly well for this ancient piece of hardware)
Problems - from 8.10 the FN Keys wont work after starting X (worked in 8.04)

Type: Laptop
Dell Latitude C630 / 2 GB RAM / Intel Core2Duo E7300 / 2GHz / 160 GB HDD / Nvidia NVS 135 / 256 MB / 802.11 bg wireless
All good, except i couldnt get the hacker light (or whatever it is called to light up...)

ajgreeny

May 21st, 2009, 03:18 PM

Ubuntu 9.04
Laptop: Compaq CQ70-211EM
Intel Pentium Dual-core Mobile t3400
2gb Ram
Intel Mobile GMA 4500 MHD graphics
Built in webcam (Conexant?)
Built in card reader
Atheros wifi

Appears to work without problems though I have not yet tried suspend or hibernate. Compiz works brilliantly, much better than I expected and I have had no difficulties which I thought might happen with the 9.04 Intel graphics incompatibility problem noted at first with 9.04.
Wifi works straight out of the box, no configuration, other than chosing the network from a list of about 5 found.
Webcam works out of the box, even with skype, as does the internal microphone.

Overall a superb buy for ubuntu, especially at the price Curry's (I would not usually use them, but the price!) has it in the UK at the moment, £349.