section index
topThis file contains a list of laptops on which Mandrake Linux has been successfully installed on. All entries have been contributed by Mandrake users.
Ratings ('Marks') range from 1, worst, to 4, best:
Sony - Texas Instruments - Twinhead - ULTRA - UMAX - WinBook - Xeron
| Model |
Rel. |
Comments / URL |
Mark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vaio PCG-505TR |
8.0 |
none |
4 |
| Vaio PCG-C1F |
7.1, 7.2 |
Basic X but mostly CLI coz I don't need X :) Sound, USB
floppy and PCMCIA CD drive all work. |
2 |
| Vaio PCG-C1VE |
8.0 |
You have a really nifty installer, it correctly detected
almost everything. |
3 |
| same |
8.0, fr2, fr3 |
Requires custom ModeLine for 1024x480 screen from
stevebarr.com |
3-4 |
| Vaio PCG-C1VN |
8.0 |
Works almost flawlessly. Occasionally hangs on "Unmounting
file systems" on shutdown. Some of the specialized hardware (jog wheel, camera,
capture button) isn't supported in the Linux kernel (not specific to Mandrake). |
3 |
| Vaio PCG-C1XD |
8.0 |
I haven't played much with IRDA but camera, USB, 1024x480
(no typo) and sound work great. Needed a kernel update to get the Sony special keys working. |
3 |
| Vaio PCG-F180 |
8.1 |
3Com 3CCFE575B/3CXFE575B Fast EtherLink XL is a bit iffy.
Still haven't figured out why it won't start sometimes. |
3-4 |
| Vaio PCG-F250 |
8.0 |
the drivers for the neomagic do not have the right name
right out of the box. Otherwise, everything is working perfectly... |
4 |
| Vaio PCG-F304 |
8.1 |
Works fine, good installation, but because Mdk still
thinks the sounddriver for NM256 is nm256 you'll have to rename or copy the
nm256_audio.o.gz into nm256.o.gz. Other problem the link /dev/cdrom points
to a nonexisting file (../cdroms/cdroms0) you have to change this link. |
3 |
| Vaio PCG-F305 |
8.0 |
none |
2 |
| Vaio PCG-F360 |
7.1 |
The Port Replicator EtherNet is non-functional, but a Netgear
PC-card Ethernet works fine. |
3-4 |
| Vaio PCG-F400 |
7.2, 8.0fr3 |
Having trouble connecting with cable modem to NTL in UK |
3 |
| Vaio PCG-F403 |
8.0 |
Sound doesn't work :-( |
3 |
| same |
8.0, 8.1 |
If sound doesn´t work just deactivate Plug and
Play support in your BIOS. Then it works great. Sometimes KDE 2.x crashes.
I don´t know why because it doesn´t happen with other Windowmanagers. |
4 |
| Vaio PCG-F420 |
8.0 |
none |
4 |
| Vaio PCG-F540 |
7.0, 7.1, 8.0 |
X worked perfect for Mandrake 7.0, but not for 7.1
or 8.0. |
3,1,1 |
| Vaio PCG-F560 |
8.1 |
Initially slow and seemed to hang - repeated procedure,
with no problems. |
3 |
| Vaio PCG-F590 |
8.0 |
The main problem is with the stupid graphics card (neomagic)
was not autodetected very well by the old version of X. So I had to manually
update the XF86Config file to get it to work. Once I was up, I figured out
how to switch to X version 4. That version was able to do a much better job
at detecting, although it is still not seeing it as the right chipset, (NM2400
instead of NM2600, I believe). The ongoing issue is that I can't have both my wheel mouse and my touch pad mouse active at the same time. They need two different mouse entries in the X config. I am hopeful that the IR port works, because I want to use it to sync my Palm. But have not tried it yet. Printing from the parallel port worked as expected. |
4 |
| Vaio PCG-F610 |
8.0 |
Everything works right (autodetected and configured during
install) except the internal modem, detected but not supported. |
4 |
| Vaio PCG-F630 |
8.0 |
Good performance, moderate stability. Can't get XFree 86
to configure properly, I only get a mini screen in the center of my screen
loosing about 33% of my screen. |
3 |
| Vaio PCG-F650 |
7.2 |
none |
4 |
| same |
8.0, 8.1 |
My plug and play mouse isn't plug and play. It has
to be plugged in when booting for it to work. My modem doesn't work either,
but my ethernet card works fine. Sound works fine also. |
3 |
| Vaio PCG-F737 |
8.0, 8.1 |
Both 8.0 and 8.1 installed perfectly out of the box.
No issues whatsoever. Video, sound PCMCIA all autodetected including 3Com 3CCSH572BT NIC card. |
4 |
| Vaio PCG-F801A |
8.1 |
Soundcard and display works fine, but not the modem. |
3 |
| Vaio PCG-F808K |
7.2, 8.0 |
Troubles with sound card(7.2) and APM. Troubles between
kdevelop and kde.(7.2 and 8.0). Otherwise, good stuff! |
3 |
| Vaio PCG-FX101 |
8.0 |
Minor problem with pcmcia probing on installation, booted
with "linux pcmcia=0" fixed it. Some minor visual glitches in X, probably due to i815 AGP shared graphics memory. |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
Freezes at pcmcia detection on installation,no pcmcia cards
are present...etc |
1 |
| same |
8.0 |
I started with a PCMCIA Disk burned on a CD, then
had no PCMCIA Problems. |
2 |
| Vaio PCG-FX-102 |
8.0 |
I had to disable the PCMCIA support in order to prevent
Linux to crash during the hardware scan. Win-Modem does not work (have to buy a pcmcia card) and bitmapped themes pollutes (sometimes) the X11 output. This problem can be avoided by choosing a simple theme. The rest runs absolutly perfectly. Graphic-speed is surprisingly fast, the overall system performance is excellent, although the notebook is equipped with a 600Mhz Celeron. This machine (+ software) fits my needs. |
4 |
| Vaio PCG-FX109 |
8.1 |
Used pcmcia boot disk to install. Got screen resolution
of 1400x1050 working. Sound working. Still no modem though (winmodem/connexant). |
3 |
| Vaio PCG-FX190 |
8.0 |
Install with pcmcia bootdisk. Function keys only work in
Windows :( |
4 |
| Vaio PCG-FX201 |
8.1b |
96MB Everything seems to works fine. Wrong graphics card
autodetected, so manually choose the Rage Mobility. Not tested the inbuild (win)modem. Network tested fine. |
4 |
| Vaio PCG-FX203 |
8.0 |
I had to install Mandrake from a boot floppy using
the pcmcia image supplied on the mandrake CD. This stops the installer hanging |
4 |
| Vaio PCG-FX210 |
8.0 |
Will not recognize my Logitech cordless optical mouse (sniff).
Other than that, it went in like butta. |
4 |
| Vaio PCG-FX215 |
8.0 |
Everything works with Mandrake, including the DVD drive. |
4 |
| same |
8.1b |
I had to do a "no auto-detect" install because the pcmcia
probe caused a kernel panic (with all Red Hat based installers). Because
of this I think whatever USB setup is done at install was skipped and I can't
seem to figure out how to get my USB mouse going without breaking all the
fine things Mandrake has done to make it simple :-) Video is great,
LAN works. Haven't tried to use the CDRW yet. |
3 |
| Vaio PCG-FX220 |
8.0 |
Was very difficult to install, kept on hanging at the PC
Card/SCSI devices detections screen |
3 |
| Vaio PCG-FX301 |
8.0 |
Installation went without problems, Suspend to RAM or Suspend
to disk crashes the kernel (even the current from Cooker). |
2 |
| Vaio PCG-FX340 |
8.0 |
Had to boot with "pcmcia=0" to get past the hang during
the PCMCIA probe. Had to change the PCIC= line in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia to
"PCIC=i82365" after first boot. |
4 |
| Vaio PCG-N505SN |
7.2 |
none |
2 |
| same |
8.1b |
none |
4 |
| Vaio PCG-N505X |
8.0 |
The installer finds the PCMCIA CD-Rom but kernel panics
when doing the PCMCIA hardware detect later in the install. It detected my network card and I installed using boot floppy and ftp. |
4 |
| same |
6.1 |
none |
3 |
| Vaio PCG-SR1K |
7.2, 8.0 |
The installer tries to mount the memory-stick (SCSI emulation
over USB) because it thinks its a hard drive. I needed to manually remove the device in order to install. 7.2 Had problems with the usb-floppy as well |
3,4 |
| Vaio PCG-SR21K |
8.0 |
none |
3 |
| Vaio PCG-Z505LSK |
8.0, 8.1 |
Everything works! Even the Conexant winmodem
was identified. Used Takaya Kinjo's spicdriver together with the S-Jog utility for interfacing with the Jogdial. |
4 |
| Vaio PCG-Z505JS |
8.0 |
No sound. Video fair. LAN OK |
3 |
| Vaio PCG-Z505SX |
7.1, 8.0 |
Minor install bug (#3359) encountered with 8.0. |
4 |
| Vaio PCG-Z600HEK |
8.0 |
There was nothing to manage the special Sony device called
Jog-Dial so I made my own which is available at
http://sjog.sf.net/ |
3 |
| Vaio PCG-Z600TEK |
7.2 |
none |
3 |
| Model |
Rel. |
Comments / URL |
Mark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extensa 900CDT |
8.0 |
Works fine |
3 |
| TravelMate 6030 |
7.2 |
none |
4 |
| Model |
Rel. |
Comments / URL |
Mark |
|---|---|---|---|
| P88TREMC |
8.0 |
Only Kernel 2.2 worked with X, when booting with 2.4 X environment
booted up but simply wouldn't let my mouse or keyboard work, they both hang
but the cursor blinks. Everything runs nice and smooth with 2.2. |
3 |
| Slimnote VX3 |
7.x, 8.1 |
none |
3 |
| Model |
Rel. |
Comments / URL |
Mark |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6133XN |
7.0, 7.2, 8.0 |
7.0 worked very well. 7.2 works very well, no USB. 8.0 installs
but does not boot - stops after INIT level. |
3,4,2 |
| Model |
Rel. |
Comments / URL |
Mark |
|---|---|---|---|
| 850T |
8.0, 8.1b |
8.1 has many problems with installer and oracle9i
is not compatible. freq 0810 has problems with evolution. esssolo1 not detected.
correctly need to be manualy changed in modules.conf |
4(?) |
| Model |
Rel. |
Comments / URL |
Mark |
|---|---|---|---|
| FX |
8.0 |
Works well except sound and WinModem. Sound wasn't working
in Win98 though so it may be hardware. |
3-4 |
| J1 |
8.1 |
Before installing Mandrake 8.1 goto the BIOS and swith
the OS Type from ME/2000 to other. Proceed with install. Everything
works minus the Winmodem (no+surprise). I even had great luck with
my USB Intellimouse! |
4 |
| XL |
7.x, 8.0 |
I am using a PCMCIA modem and LinkSys Cardbus Ethernet adapter. |
4 |
| same |
7.2 |
Newer versions of Mandrake hang with installation. I'm looking
at Red Hat, now, to see if it has the same problems. |
2 |
| same |
7.2 |
8.0 and 8.1beta lock up with the installation program. 8.1beta
doesn't recognize the PS/2 pointing device. |
2 |
| Model |
Rel. |
Comments / URL |
Mark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonic Pro 700PX3 |
8.0 |
none |
4 |
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