Laptop COMPATIBILITY List.

[robert159]

Ubuntu 16.0 64 bit on a HP DV 9000 laptop . Nothing more easy. Beats win 10 64 bit.

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HP DV9000 laptop ready for scrapping or you did already? A life saver how to get her back to great condition.

Well too bad about all difficult postings on internet to get her running on Ubuntu. A short instruction. Works like charm. Get a cheap USB flash stick, 8 Gb or so. I used a 3 us$ one just now. Download Universal USB installer to format and flash an Ubuntu ISO on that stick. Download Ubuntu 16 64 bits.

Specify about 1,2 Gb of spare USB size for later changes on stick. You may change it later.

Takes about 30 min to get that ready. Just waiting. And a few clicks.

Now go into BIOS of your HP DV9000 laptop with F10. Go to configuration

Down to set boot order. with F5/F6 change boot order so USB drive is on top of list. Push F10 to save and exit. Now insert Flash USB with Ubuntu 6.0 in USB slot. And power on. She will will boot up automatically. In this Ubuntu 16 no additional NVIDIA drivers to be installed with shift and apt on boot up.

Try first with dont install Ubuntu to let her run a great demo install live from flash.

She come right in screen ready. Make a wireless connection. works right away. No network adapter problems. No sound problems from Lansec speaker either. Load any youtube and enjoy beautifull sound. Add your wireless printer. Just do a search by adding a network printer. Tested a Canon 3650 wireless on auto standby. Printed a test page. No gutenberg hassles nothing. Good old cups even ready there. This any person can do. And 3$? You pay that for throwing her away on yunkyard. She performs almost like a PC on Win 10 64 bit with a Samsung SSD. But she performs even better with less hassles. Dont complain about fingerprint . Might work (later) . You just got your old laptop back and she works great again.

Too bad if you threw her away years ago already. Moment well worth waiting for.

And you can use the webcam also. I never used that fingerprint feature

[tareq.mhd]

OS: Ubuntu 16.04 and Kubuntu 16.04
Laptop Maker: Fujitsu
Model: LH-531

Everything works fine except touch-pad, which does not recognized at first. Keyboard freezes after suspend mode. I solved the problem by modifying the grub.

[SirPecanGum]

Ubuntu 14.04
Asus
E402MA

Seems to work very well except the WiFi requires a tweak: The wifi card is 10ec:b723 Realtek RTL8723BE which has a bug report on Launchpad #1454843.
With much help there and on askubuntu it does now appear to be working... fingers crossed.

A bit slow to wake from sleep.
Function keys don't adjust screen brightness so that has to be done via the settings menu.

[Qew]

Dell laptop
Inspiron 15 5548
Ubuntu 16.04

Installed Ubuntu on it a few months ago, dual booting initially with Windows 8.1, and then Windows 10. All seems well with it, bar that the AMD Radeon R7 M270 video adapter isn't yet supported due to the proprietary blob not being available. However, the basic Intel HD 5500 video works fine for what it is, which is what you're likely to use if you're not playing graphic intensive games, etc. After three months of usage, I can't find anything that'd be a showstopper if you installed Ubuntu 16.04 on this machine, unless you wanted to run graphic intensive applications and games that require a powerful video card.

[sukanime]

1. Kubuntu 12.10
2. Asus
3. X201EP

My Notebook with Intel Celeron Sandy Bridge 847 @1,1Ghz anda RAM Onboard 4GB, running Kubuntu without any problem, everything work out of the box.
It's Sale for South Asia , so doesn't have Bluetooth and no pre installed with Ubuntu.
It's my First Notebook.

[sukanime]

1. Kubuntu 13.04
2. Asus
3. X201EV

My Notebook with Intel Celeron Ivy Bridge 1007U @1,5Ghz anda RAM Onboard 4GB, running Kubuntu without any problem, everything work out of the box.
It's Sale for South Asia , so doesn't have Bluetooth and no pre installed with Ubuntu.
It's my Second Notebook.

[monkeybrain20122]

Toshiba Satellite z930, Intel core i5-3317U CPU @ 1.70GHz × 4, intel ivybridge graphic come with 6G of ram. Installed Ubuntu 16.04 on it, everything works out of the box, it is fast and smooth and boots in 3 seconds! The only small wrinkle is that webcam on skype is very dark (my side) but it is normal on google-hangout, guvcview and cheese, so this is a skype issue and can be remedied by turning up the brightness with the video4linux control panel.


This is another hand me down, guy said it was getting very sluggish with Win8. I can't be happier with Ubuntu.

Edited: After a bunch of updates three weeks later the skpye problem is fixed, no longer need to adjust brightness with v4l control panel. Yay!

[jimmy-frydkaer]

Lenovo Ideapad 100

CPU Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU N3540 @ 2.16GHz x4
RAM 8GB
128 GB SSD
Ubuntu Yakkety Yak (16.10 kernel 4.8RC7)

Works perfectly (installed in EFI-mode)

/Jimmy

[mörgæs]

Dell Latitude D 505, Lubuntu 16.04.1 and 18.04.1.

Everything works when installing with the forcepae option. I began with the minimal ISO and added a desktop environment later using the command

sudo apt install lubuntu-core

This gave a memory consumption like:

free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            490         102          74          33         313         341
Swap:          1766           0        1766

With an updated BIOS the computer supports booting from USB.

The hardware is as follows:

computer    
    description: Portable Computer
    product: Latitude D505
    vendor: Dell Inc.
    serial: [REMOVED]
    width: 32 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=portable uuid=[REMOVED]
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: 0H2049
       vendor: Dell Inc.
       physical id: 0
       serial: [REMOVED]
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Dell Inc.
          physical id: 0
          version: A08
          date: 01/28/2005
          size: 64KiB
          capacity: 448KiB
          capabilities: isa pci pcmcia pnp apm upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect int13floppy720 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb agp smartbattery biosbootspecification netboot
     *-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 400
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: 6.9.5
          slot: Microprocessor
          size: 1GHz
          capacity: 1800MHz
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 133MHz
          capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe bts est tm2 cpufreq
        *-cache:0
             description: L1 cache
             physical id: 700
             size: 8KiB
             capacity: 8KiB
             capabilities: internal write-back data
             configuration: level=1
        *-cache:1
             description: L2 cache
             physical id: 701
             size: 1MiB
             capacity: 1MiB
             clock: 66MHz (15.0ns)
             capabilities: pipeline-burst internal varies unified
             configuration: level=2
     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 1000
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 512MiB
          capacity: 2GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: DIMM DDR Synchronous 333 MHz (3.0 ns)
             physical id: 0
             slot: DIMM_A
             size: 256MiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 333MHz (3.0ns)
        *-bank:1
             description: DIMM DDR Synchronous 333 MHz (3.0 ns)
             physical id: 1
             slot: DIMM_B
             size: 256MiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 333MHz (3.0ns)
     *-pci
          description: Host bridge
          product: 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller
          vendor: Intel Corporation
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 02
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          configuration: driver=agpgart-intel
          resources: irq:0
        *-generic:0 UNCLAIMED
             description: System peripheral
             product: 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 0.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:00.1
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master
             configuration: latency=0
        *-generic:1 UNCLAIMED
             description: System peripheral
             product: 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 0.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:00.3
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master
             configuration: latency=0
        *-display:0
             description: VGA compatible controller
             product: 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
             configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
             resources: irq:11 memory:f0000000-f7ffffff memory:faf80000-faffffff ioport:c000(size=8)
        *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
             description: Display controller
             product: 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: memory:e8000000-efffffff memory:faf00000-faf7ffff
        *-usb:0
             description: USB controller
             product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: uhci bus_master
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:11 ioport:bf80(size=32)
           *-usbhost
                product: UHCI Host Controller
                vendor: Linux 4.4.0-38-generic uhci_hcd
                physical id: 1
                bus info: usb@2
                logical name: usb2
                version: 4.04
                capabilities: usb-1.10
                configuration: driver=hub slots=2 speed=12Mbit/s
              *-usb
                   description: Bluetooth wireless interface
                   product: BC02 Bluetooth Adapter
                   vendor: Dell Computer Corp.
                   physical id: 2
                   bus info: usb@2:2
                   version: 5.65
                   capabilities: bluetooth usb-1.10
                   configuration: driver=btusb speed=12Mbit/s
        *-usb:1
             description: USB controller
             product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: uhci bus_master
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:11 ioport:bf40(size=32)
           *-usbhost
                product: UHCI Host Controller
                vendor: Linux 4.4.0-38-generic uhci_hcd
                physical id: 1
                bus info: usb@3
                logical name: usb3
                version: 4.04
                capabilities: usb-1.10
                configuration: driver=hub slots=2 speed=12Mbit/s
        *-usb:2
             description: USB controller
             product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: uhci bus_master
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:11 ioport:bf20(size=32)
           *-usbhost
                product: UHCI Host Controller
                vendor: Linux 4.4.0-38-generic uhci_hcd
                physical id: 1
                bus info: usb@4
                logical name: usb4
                version: 4.04
                capabilities: usb-1.10
                configuration: driver=hub slots=2 speed=12Mbit/s
        *-usb:3
             description: USB controller
             product: 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.7
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=0
             resources: irq:11 memory:faeffc00-faefffff
           *-usbhost
                product: EHCI Host Controller
                vendor: Linux 4.4.0-38-generic ehci_hcd
                physical id: 1
                bus info: usb@1
                logical name: usb1
                version: 4.04
                capabilities: usb-2.00
                configuration: driver=hub slots=6 speed=480Mbit/s
        *-pci
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1e
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
             version: 81
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master
             resources: ioport:e000(size=4096) memory:fc000000-fdffffff memory:20000000-23ffffff
           *-pcmcia
                description: CardBus bridge
                product: PCI4510 PC card Cardbus Controller
                vendor: Texas Instruments
                physical id: 1
                bus info: pci@0000:01:01.0
                version: 02
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pcmcia bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=yenta_cardbus latency=176 maxlatency=5 mingnt=192
                resources: irq:11 memory:fc000000-fc000fff ioport:e000(size=256) ioport:e400(size=256) memory:20000000-23ffffff memory:28000000-2bffffff
           *-firewire
                description: FireWire (IEEE 1394)
                product: PCI4510 IEEE-1394 Controller
                vendor: Texas Instruments
                physical id: 1.1
                bus info: pci@0000:01:01.1
                version: 00
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm ohci bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=firewire_ohci latency=32 maxlatency=4 mingnt=2
                resources: irq:11 memory:fcfff800-fcffffff memory:fcff8000-fcffbfff
           *-network:0
                description: Wireless interface
                product: PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection
                vendor: Intel Corporation
                physical id: 3
                bus info: pci@0000:01:03.0
                logical name: wlp1s3
                version: 05
                serial: [REMOVED]
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
                configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw2200 driverversion=1.2.2kmprq firmware=ABG:9.0.5.27 (Dec 12 2007) ip=[REMOVED] latency=32 link=yes maxlatency=24 mingnt=3 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
                resources: irq:5 memory:fcffe000-fcffefff
           *-network:1
                description: Ethernet interface
                product: 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller
                vendor: Intel Corporation
                physical id: 8
                bus info: pci@0000:01:08.0
                logical name: enp1s8
                version: 81
                serial: [REMOVED]
                size: 10Mbit/s
                capacity: 100Mbit/s
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
                configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e100 driverversion=3.5.24-k2-NAPI duplex=half latency=32 link=no maxlatency=56 mingnt=8 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
                resources: irq:11 memory:fcffd000-fcffdfff ioport:ecc0(size=64)
        *-isa
             description: ISA bridge
             product: 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: isa bus_master
             configuration: driver=lpc_ich latency=0
             resources: irq:0
        *-ide
             description: IDE interface
             product: 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.1
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: ide bus_master
             configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
             resources: irq:11 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:bfa0(size=16) memory:24000000-240003ff
        *-multimedia
             description: Multimedia audio controller
             product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.5
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.5
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=snd_intel8x0 latency=0
             resources: irq:5 ioport:d800(size=256) ioport:dc40(size=64) memory:faeff800-faeff9ff memory:faeff400-faeff4ff
        *-communication UNCLAIMED
             description: Modem
             product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.6
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.6
             version: 01
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm generic cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: ioport:d400(size=256) ioport:d080(size=128)
     *-scsi:0
          physical id: 1
          logical name: scsi0
          capabilities: emulated
        *-disk
             description: ATA Disk
             product: Hitachi HTS54104
             vendor: Hitachi
             physical id: 0.0.0
             bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
             logical name: /dev/sda
             version: A61A
             serial: [REMOVED]
             size: 37GiB (40GB)
             capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
             configuration: ansiversion=5 logicalsectorsize=512 sectorsize=512 signature=efd8a304
           *-volume:0
                description: EXT4 volume
                vendor: Linux
                physical id: 1
                bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
                logical name: /dev/sda1
                logical name: /
                version: 1.0
                serial: [REMOVED]
                size: 36GiB
                capacity: 36GiB
                capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
                configuration: created=2016-09-03 19:08:31 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/ modified=2016-09-28 19:36:20 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered mounted=2016-09-28 19:36:28 state=mounted
           *-volume:1
                description: Extended partition
                physical id: 2
                bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2
                logical name: /dev/sda2
                size: 510MiB
                capacity: 510MiB
                capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
              *-logicalvolume
                   description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
                   physical id: 5
                   logical name: /dev/sda5
                   capacity: 510MiB
                   capabilities: nofs
     *-scsi:1
          physical id: 2
          logical name: scsi1
          capabilities: emulated
        *-cdrom
             description: DVD reader
             product: CDRW/DVD SBW242U
             vendor: QSI
             physical id: 0.0.0
             bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
             logical name: /dev/cdrom
             logical name: /dev/cdrw
             logical name: /dev/dvd
             logical name: /dev/sr0
             version: UD25
             capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd
             configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
  *-battery
       product: DELL Y133843
       vendor: Sanyo
       physical id: 1
       slot: Sys. Battery Bay
       capacity: 53000mWh
       configuration: voltage=11.1V

The original wirefree card supporting only 802.11b was swapped to the one shown in the output above. The computer works well as a DVD player and for my daily postings in Ubuntuforum using Chromium, though it has only 512 MB of memory, but playing videos on Youtube might stutter.

[AdamTudor]

Hi

I'm a new user who's used only windows since very long (15+ years). I've been planning and delaying this move to ubuntu !!

I'm NOT a geek. I'm a normal user. I currently use my laptop for
* Web browsing (Now Mozilla FF, Chrome ) , including social media & videos
* Spreadsheet (now M$ XL) , Word-processor (now M$ word) , Presentations (now M$ PPT), mailing (any mail client would do)
* a simple password manager, (say like Keypass )
* a simple plain text editor (now Note tab lite )
* some basic printing (no major graphics etc, just simple colour printing would do)
* synching my iPhone / using iTunes
* and I backup data from this laptop to an external HDD

could some one pl recommend some mid range laptops that I can buy ?
and
correct version / versions of ubuntu should I download and install ?

do I also need to have M$ Windows 10 along with ubuntu as a dual boot ?

What do I mean by Mid Range Laptop : Say price range of approx 600 US$ on Amazon US. (I live outside US, but amazon is just a reference)

Ubuntu version : A version that is intuitive and can do above tasks out of the box. Should have decent support. 'am ready to pay annual subscriptions. Linux Could be some other Linux version / flavour as well

sorry IF I have posted this to the wrong forum or given limited info, please guide me and I shall reply

thanks in advance
best regards
mani