mifan Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 Which laptop makers generally have the least problems running linux? And which ones have the most? Acer Avertec Compaq Dell HP IBM The reason I'm asking this, is because I had bought an HP laptop (dv2000 turion 64 w nvidia graphics/sound/ethernet) from best buy and tried to run linux on it with no success. the nvidia drivers I downloaded don't work yet, and I've checked on the net that others have problems with the nvidia geforce 6150 and nvida soundcard together (I found this post http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=75808), however the beta nvidia drivers didn't work for me as it did the other people... since I found that the laptop has a few bad pixels, I'm planning to exchange it this weekend, perhaps for a similarly priced laptop of a different brand and configuration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shengchieh Posted October 26, 2006 Report Share Posted October 26, 2006 I veteod Dell. They seems to be linux-unfriendly. I once tallied/searched all the problems in the Xandros (used to use Xandros on desktop) forums and Dell has the highest total by far (and that's accounting for them making printer as well). Btw, you might find these two links handy. http://www.linux-laptop.net http://www.tuxmobile.org/ ( Sheng-Chieh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 26, 2006 Report Share Posted October 26, 2006 I've used Toshiba, and have no problems with both the laptops I've used. I'm also due hopefully to get an Intel Duo Core laptop, which might be Toshiba when I get around to buying it via work if they let me to replace my existing 4 year old work laptop. My wife has Acer, and I installed Linux on it, and it was working fine. She just doesn't use it much. I tend to see a lot of people with problems using Compaq/HP. But never tried, so can't say for sure whether it's the hardware with problems, or something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted October 26, 2006 Report Share Posted October 26, 2006 Strange... HP seems to be rather supportive of Linux. They even had a notebook with SuSe 9.1 pre-installed about a year ago... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted October 26, 2006 Report Share Posted October 26, 2006 Mifan, its difficult to give a brand and give it the all clear because some models just have different components Equally many are quite generic inside ... Any with Intel graphics seem good right now with Intel making a big push from OpenSource graphics drivers. You can check the support here http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html The same for nvidia, check the support at http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_..._supported.html and the same for the graphics. Things like card readers and built in stuff can be hard to be sure.... The best way is to know someone with that laptop or take a live CD and ask to try it. Equally get the model number and do a google search... A friend had a Dell which was a complete disaster for linux using defaults but after about 1 hr research I found the drivers for the widescreen and settings to make it work native, Wifi and all and got it working 100% in about 1hr. Equally I never fouind a decent driver for my laptop S3twister ... Anoher idea is check out vendors like www.keynux.com who sell pre-installed laptops If they can make it work then you can :D you don't need to buy from them just check which models they sell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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