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:
| Model |
Rel. |
Comments / URL |
Mark |
|---|---|---|---|
| DynaBook V1/470PMC |
8.0, 8.1b |
This Laptop has only minimal support in Linux. As the VGA
card is a Trident Cyberblade XP (no support in Linux), I use Framebuffer mode - 16bit in 1024x768. Sound card based on AC97 chipset but, due to the Advance Bios system of this Laptop, sound card and modem do not respond. It's PCMCIA card bus is ToPIC100, which now works with 2.4.7 kernel. I use a USB Corega NIC card, it works fine. It also supports USB mice. But USB mouse and TouchPad won't work simultanously. It can't detect the battery and any Bios related information. In Beta3, I had a problem with the frame buffer X, it couldn't get the font path. Otherwise, it is ok for me. |
2 |
| Libretto 100CT |
8.0 |
(IBM Travelstar 20Gb). Manual XFree 4 configuration. Upgraded
to kernel 2.4.6 from kernel.org. |
3 |
| Portege 300CT |
8.0 |
X installation tricky. I had to manually edit the conf
file to fit the 1024x600 screen. Sound not detected. Otherwise excellent. |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
Had to manually enter the monitor settings. |
3 |
| Portege 320CT |
8.0 |
Haven't got the irda port working yet. |
3 |
| Portege 3015CT |
8.1b |
none |
3 |
| Portege 3480 |
8.0 |
Problems with sound i810 kernel module |
3 |
| Portege 7200CTe |
8.1b |
Works perfectly. Modem works with driver from
http://www.heby.de/ltmodem |
4 |
| same |
8.0, 8.1 |
Both work well. Download Lucent Linmodem driver from linmodems.org. |
4 |
| Satellite 115CS |
7.2snf |
Works great as firewall / gateway. 40 MB RAM.
No CDROM. Difficult (impossible?) to setup SNF via NFS, FTP, or HTTP. Finally had to borrow a PCMCIA CDROM and setup went off without a hitch. |
4 |
| Satellite 210CS |
8.1b |
Works perfectly. Toshiba utilities (
http://www.buzzard.org.uk/toshiba) (version 1.1) are helpful. Due to
processor and HD limitations no KDE or GNOME. |
4 |
| Satellite 220CDS |
7.2 |
Had to tell X to use CT65554 chipset, otherwise uneventful. |
4 |
| same |
8.0 |
works well |
4 |
| same |
7.2 |
Don't know about sound and PCMCIA stuff yet! |
3-4 |
| Satellite 310CDT |
8.0 |
none |
3 |
| Satellite 320CDS |
8.0 |
none |
2 |
| Satellite 425CDS |
7.1 |
Don't run the FBDev X server. Use the XF86Config
file found on laptop user pages. |
3 |
| Satellite 440CDT |
8.0 |
Drake detected all all devices i didn't have to do anything
extra. just for anyone who's using the same model use XFdrake to configure X. You'll sure have problems if you use xf86config |
4 |
| same |
7.2 |
The only thing I had to configure by hand was the sound
card. |
4 |
| Satellite 460CDT |
8.0 |
Everything works except XFree86 and the NIC. (Megahertz) |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
When installing Mandrake on this laptop with no battery;
rather using an A/C adapter for power, the laptop usually fails to install fully. I found that the laptop was drawing too much power from the laptop to install because of the hard drive and CD-Rom being accessed simultaneously. To resolve the problem goto the BIOS by holding the ESC key during boot, and then press F1. The key feature which draws power the most, next to the hard drive and CD-Rom, is the LCD. Turn the brightness of the screen down and the install should be done successfully in the next try. |
4 |
| same |
7.1 |
So far so good. Installed and witthin a few
hours got pcmcia ethernet with a 3com nic X and sound to work although sound
is only at 8bit 20khz. Looking for a better module. |
3 |
| Satellite 460CDX |
8.0 |
Two installs later, I'm still trying... |
2 |
| Satellite 480CDT |
8.1 |
Everything rolls fine, till the time it starts looking
for the pcmcia cards. So it stucks and you have to do a reboot to revive
the laptop. |
2 |
| Satellite 490CDT |
7.1, 8.0 |
winmodem - nada, s3 chip set OK under XFree 3.3.6 not under
4.xx. |
3 |
| Satellite 1555CDS |
8.0 |
Had to do a custom install to configure properly. |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
Had to disable Kudzu and looking for new hardware in the
boot services during custom install or machine will not boot up. It tries
but hangs. I believe it is looking for 2ndary hdd controller (fifo) as win98
has a similar issue on this machine. 2k does not have this issue. X is a little ugly but usable. I use pc modem as it has winmodem onboard. |
3 |
| Satellite 1620CDS |
7.2 |
none |
4 |
| Satellite 1625CDT |
8.0 |
Red Hat 7.1 will not install on this machine. Mandrake
8.0 installed without any problem. |
4 |
| Satellite 1695CDT |
8.0 |
I give it a 4 (perfectly working) even though I have not
been able to get the modem working because I don't use the modem at all,
just a Linksys PCMCIA network card. Otherwise, everything works great with
an out of the box install of Mandrake 8.0 BTW, haven't tried the USB. |
4 |
| Satellite 1700-500 |
8.0 |
Wow! Works fine! |
4 |
| same |
8.0 |
The Lucent "Linmodem" :-) WORKS perfectly! |
4 |
| Satellite 1715CDS |
8.0 |
none |
4 |
| same |
8.0 |
I only had to download the winmodem driver from
http://www.linmodems.org /linux568.zip . |
4 |
| Satellite 1730CDT |
8.1 |
Works well. Installation require manual configuration
of X. See http://laptop.croninsolutions.com |
4 |
| Satellite 1735 |
8.0 |
Very impressed. Exceptional card support. Even
saw and loaded the drivers for the Crystal sound card. Video could
stand some improvement...but nominal. |
4 |
| Satellite 1750 |
8.0 |
Almost everything (except winmodem) works right out of
the box on Mandrake 8.0. If dual-booting, you need to shut down after using
Windows or OSS sound will not work. |
4 |
| same |
8.0 |
I had no problems at all getting Mandrake 8 to install
on this. |
4 |
| same |
8.0 |
All works fine except for modem: is recognized but needs
the "hand" installation of the module (in this case the ltmodem 5.95a). |
4 |
| Satellite 1755 |
8.0 |
Not operable when my pcmcia network card is plugged in
to the PC port |
3 |
| Satellite 1800 |
8.0 |
Good job, the X 3.3.6 was a VERY BAD idea, the Cyberblade/Ai1
in it is only supported under X 4.1.0, but other than that, great job. |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
Internal modem isn't working. Lilo has some strange behavior:
it installs but it's not possible to modify the lilo entry once the system
are installed for the problem of 1024 cylinder. The sound card doesn't work. |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
Doesn't have acceleration - at least not directly (Trident
Cyberblade Ai). |
2 |
| Satellite 2065 CDS |
8.1 |
Install went without any problems. I have winmodem
working with Lucent drivers. |
4 |
| Satellite 2100CDS |
7.2, 8.0 |
Mandrake runs fine on my laptop. The only problem is the
software manager on the 8.0 version that seems to get damaged and becomes
useless. This happened also once on my desktop system. I hope this will be fixed on the 8.1 release. Keep on the good work! |
4 |
| Satellite 2100CDT |
8.0 |
none |
4 |
| Satellite 2130CDS |
8.0,8.1b |
It's great. All working, but no LTModem- Support via Mandrake
:-( APMD isn't working very well :-( |
3 |
| Satellite 2180CDT |
7.2 |
none |
4 |
| Satellite 2250CDT |
8.0 |
Problems getting the mouse to work. Laptop's display
works fine, but when I plug in the 17' monitor, I get a big horizontal black
band in the middle of the screen. |
2 |
| Satellite 2255XCDS |
8.0 |
Need to get drivers for the modem. But only one warning,
do not install X 4.x, stay with 3.x. The other will corrupt the video card. |
3 |
| Satellite 2520CDT |
8.0 |
Everything works, modem is a winmodem, but works with drivers. |
4 |
| Satellite 2545XDT |
7.0, 8.0 |
Still working on fine-tuning 8.0, but had 7.0 working great
for months before that. |
3 |
| Satellite 2590CDT |
8.0 |
Got external PS/2 mouse detection problem. | 3 |
| Satellite 2610 CDT |
8.0 |
Works perfectly. Havn't the winmodem, but it seems
to be a Lucent chipset. |
3-4 |
| Satellite 2655XDVD |
8.0f1 |
none |
2 |
| Satellite 2675DVD |
8.0 |
none |
4 |
| same |
8.0 |
External mouse not fully working. Installation painful. |
3 |
| Satellite 2710XDVD |
8.0 |
none |
4 |
| Satellite 2770XDVD |
8.0 |
The installation went smoothly. The Billionton 56K+10Base-T
PCMCIA card was recognized automatically. Sometimes the mouse freezes but
it happens very unfrequently. |
4 |
| Satellite 2800 |
8.0 |
Everything (DVD, modem,...) works well. |
4 |
| same |
8.0 |
Works great, some packages not installed at all even if
select, i.e games. |
3 |
| Satellite 2805 |
8.0 |
none |
3 |
| same |
8.1 |
Works great. |
4 |
| Satellite 2805-201 |
8.0 |
No serial output. Had to use a Belkin USB to serial
adapter to make a modem work. (cd /dev; ln -s -f usb/ttyUSB0 modem) use /dev/modem.
Also sound has a bad buzz once in a while, was able to temper this a lot
by adding external speakers. |
3 |
| Satellite 2805-S202 |
8.0 |
Release 8.0 runs especially well on this model with
the exception of the winmodem, but no surprise there (ever get a winmodem
to work in windows?) but the graphics chip (Savage4/MX/MV) work with standard
Savage4 drivers and the display works well with the generic 1024x768 driver. |
4 |
| same |
8.0 |
none |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
Got a Belkin USB to Serial adapter to work fine with an
ext. modem. |
4 |
| Satellite 2805-S301 |
8.0 |
All things work fine including DVD with exception of Xircom
internal modem, which I understand there is a new driver out for it. Must
use X4.01 with patch, or X4.1 as is. |
4 |
| same |
8.0 |
Mandrake 8.0 works great on my Toshiba Satellite.
However, I do have an occasional crash that I have not seen on other systems. Every once in a while, the machine will freeze and I lose total control of the system. The only way to resolve the problem is to power the system off. |
4 |
| Satellite 2805-S402 |
8.0 |
The XDrake X config didn't work very well. The problem
is that the GeForce 2 Go graphics chip isn't supported and to run X requires
that you use v4 of XFree but XDrake doesn't let you choose the version of
XFree directly. It was pretty painful getting X working but it is possible. |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
none |
3 |
| Satellite 3000 |
8.0, 8.1b |
Cannot write to sda device... Must somehow disable
SCSI interfaces in installation... Red Hat is better for installing but lacks as much support for video, in redhat I had to use an external monitor. |
2 |
| Satellite 3020CT |
7.0, 7.2, 8.0 |
take care with APM shutdown on mandrake 8.0, X switches
to more than 800x600 resolution, edit /etc/sysconfig/apmd file, uncomment
changevt=7 |
4 |
| Satellite 4000CDS |
8.0 |
the sound card is not recognized |
2 |
| Satellite 4000XDVD |
8.0 |
none |
4 |
| Satellite 4010CDS |
all |
Always have trouble with sound for a while after
an install. |
3.5 |
| Satellite 4010CDT |
7.2 |
All installed automagically. |
4 |
| Satellite 4015CDT |
8.0 |
Microsoft Optical USB Wheel Mouse Linksys PCMPC100 V2 Only issue is that I cannot resolve DNS names even though all is set up correctly. All other network functions work. |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
IBM Portable 4x speed external CDROM Drive works
fine. NoteWorthy 3COM 56k+Modem PC card works fine. CNET CN40 PC Card Ethernet
10mbps works fine. EXP ThinLan PC Card Ethernet 10bps works fine. WSS
sound card does not work. |
3 |
| Satellite 4020CDT |
8.0, 8.1 |
none |
3-4 |
| Satellite 4030CDS |
8.0 |
Winmodem doesn't work. Problem with pointer display. |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
I have problem with my modem and the mouse pointer,
also i have problem with the size of the windows. The size of the windows
is very big but the resolution is 1024*1024 |
2 |
| Satellite 4030CDT |
8.0 |
A few really frustrating problems, but being used to learn
only at this stage. |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
Combined with Win4Lin |
4 |
| Satellite 4060XCDT |
8.0 |
Runs well, but the update frequency of the graphical screen
is a bit slow. |
3 |
| Satellite 4070CDT |
8.0 |
Had to recompile the kernel to include PCMCIA support.
'make distclean' is the magic word here. Had trouble with gcc2.96, too. |
4 |
| Satellite 4080XCDT |
8.0 |
Installation v. simple. cannot get the PS/2 mouse to work??
but 'nipple' works fine. Internal modem (pres. WinModem) won't even
acknowledge... More than satisfied. |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
XFree86 4.03 works ok with XFree 4.1 resume doesn't work
anymore. |
4 |
| same |
8.0 |
The screen is displayed 5mm too high. |
4 |
| Satellite 4090XCDT |
7.2, 8.0, 8.1b |
installed every freq/beta since 7.2. some tweaks needed
sometimes. |
3 |
| Satellite 4105CDT |
6.0, 8.0 |
8.0 did not detect the sound card automatically.
KDE 2 is almost too slow to use. |
3.5 |
| Satellite 4200 |
8.0 |
Infrared port doesn't work, but the rest works excellently.
Merci Mandrake :) |
3 |
| Satellite 4270 |
7.x, 8.0 |
7.2 is much better than 8. I have mobile phone Nokia 6210, which works nice witn Win 98 and I hope that it will work with Mandrake sone day. |
2 |
| same |
8.0 |
Everything works well. StarOffice 5.2 required adding an environment variable to work properly. The internal winmodem needed an additional driver download. |
4 |
| same |
8.0 |
Only winmodem is not working. But i found that only one
rpm package is needed to get it working. |
3 |
| Satellite 4310 |
7.2, 8.0 |
1. Winmodem - there are drivers for this winmodem
- ltmodem. Could you include it in distro, instead if writing 'visit www.winmodem.org'
[No, we can't. tom] 2. IrDA is working after reconfiguring a bit - I've tried to setup a connection with Nokia 6210 (it's a full modem) via IrDa, and succedded, but ppp doesn't negotiate the connection. Well it's problably my error... 3. Support for graphics chip is better from Xfree 4.1.0, but there sould be set Option "ShadowStatus" in XF86Config-4, because very often whole PC freezes during scrolling. My opinion: THE BEST DISTRO FOR A NOTEBOOK! |
4 |
| same |
8.0 |
The video card only works properly with the 3.3.6 X server
(SVGA) using Savage (generic), this card is supported in 4.03, but you get
crappy interference lines when you move the mouse/click etc. The X server
is holding it back. |
3 |
| Satellite 4320 |
8.0 |
none |
3 |
| Satellite 4330 |
8.0f3, 8.1b |
Mandrake-Freq3 worked perfectly. 8.1 Beta 3 did not
setup my Linksys NP10T PCMCIA card properly (or maybe it's the PCMCIA services
itself). |
4,3 |
| Satellite 4360 |
8.0 |
All features ( bar winmodem and IR port which I have not
tested ) work fine. The 'fan' RPM package is great, this is something I have
running 24/7 to keep the CPU and case cooler. The S3savage video gave me
some problems with the early 4.x XFree86 series, but works well with 4.1
. |
3 |
| Satellite 4600 |
8.0 |
Graphics drivers do not easily give full screen support,
use of X frame buffer does using VESA driver. Toshutils work partially TuxTime.
Very stable and the battery lasts longer than Default OS. Full CPU cycles
usable for apps such as distributed.net with no overheating or instability. |
3 |
| same |
7.2, 8.0 |
7.2 installed perfectly 1024x768, 8.0 installed but only
800x600. |
4,3 |
| same |
8.1b |
Problems with the sound device, problems with the video
support... works good in VESA only |
3 |
| same |
8.1b |
Problems with the graphic card, sound card, lan... :( |
2 |
| same |
8.1b |
After countless attempts, the following worked on my system,
regarding X and Ethernet: Do the install, accept all parameters the X configuration provides (even though they are wrong). Reboot. In /etc/X11, replace XF86Config-4 and XF86Config by XF86Config_CyberXP.txt (WARNING: fix line breaks in this file.) Adjust keyboard entry if necessary (Option "XkbLayout"). In /etc/modules.conf, replace "eepro100" by "e100". Reboot and enjoy! Very useful is this link: http://www.roe.ac.uk/~hme/tosh4600/ |
3 |
| same |
8.1 |
Everything looks fine. |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
none |
4 |
| Tecra 500CDT |
7.1 - 8.0 |
Everything works but the Fast Infrared (The Toshiba driver
for the Sharp infrared chip controller is no more in the the kernel. IP issues
with Toshiba, I think.) I use the hotkey daemon to set power consumption. |
4 |
| Tecra 500CS |
6.1, 7.0, 7.2, 8.0 |
Only problem with 8.0 is that at install time only let
me choose packages from CD 1. Laptop has a 1.26 GB HD and 48 Mb RAM, I'm
only using like 600 MB of it. Speakers have ugly sound, I plug my Sony earphones and problem solved. I use it to learn new things, listen to my Samba mounted mp3 collection and when I use it outside my LAN I lug around mp3 CDs, NES ROM CDs and books burned on CD. CD is a 10x that works great. Has a internal 28.8 modem that works great. Video card C&T 65555 displaying 800*600 at 16bpp OK. Infrared not tested but should work. PCMCIA "el cheapo" 100 mbps LAN card OK. |
4 |
| Tecra 510CDT |
7.2 |
Had some trouble getting X to boot due to the display,
having some trouble getting the sound to work. Overall, absolutely wonderful
for a Linux newbie! |
3 |
| Tecra 530CDT |
8.0 |
Works like a charm. |
4 |
| Tecra 550CDT |
8.0 |
Using an XF86Config file I found online, I was able
to set up X just fine (which was the ONLY snag in install and setup!) |
4 |
| Tecra 730XDT |
7.2 |
Pretty low-power laptop. Running KDE or Gnome results
in a terribly slow interface. Blackbox, though, works great. |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
A bit slow running X server. Runs ok with Blackbox
as the window manager, but KDE is WAY to much for it. |
4 |
| same |
7.2 |
Perfect. |
4 |
| Tecra 750CDM |
7.1 |
cannot connect to net with this hardware. still forced
to rely on WIN98SE for net access. |
2 |
| Tecra 750CDT |
8.0 |
Had to run sndcfg apart from that it works OK if a little
sluggish. Works OK in docking station as well but I'm not clued up enough
yet to know if all is working OK or not but I'm typing on it now so can't
be that bad.... |
3 |
| Tecra 780CDM |
8.0 |
First time Linux user - installed like a dream, fairly
easy to configure. Had some problems getting eth0 configured, and sound card
was not supported, found a work around. |
4 |
| Tecra 8000 |
8.0 |
Internal modem doesn't work. Keyboard is non-standard. |
2 |
| same |
8.0fr |
The sound configuration will take some work. The modem
will probably take some work too, although I haven't set it up yet. |
3 |
| same |
7.0 - 8.0 |
Release 8.0 works fine after tweaking the sound card to
work properly. Even got my DVD working and have watched numerous titles. |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
Yamaha Sound card not detected. Not yet got combo
Xircom PCMCIA RealPort adapter working. |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
No sound support, otherwise OK. |
4 |
| same |
8.0 |
There is a site where you can find files to get the Lucent
winmodem working, got it up to 33.6 and that was good enough for me. |
4 |
| same |
8.0 |
Dual Booted with Windows XP Beta release 2505. |
4 |
| same |
7.1 |
none |
3 |
| Tecra 8100 |
8.0 |
Working great! There should be a easy way to use the docking
station though. |
4 |
| same |
7.1 |
Never got the sound to work. |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
Had to buy the AccelX server because I had no X until the
very latest XFree86. After many hours of work KDE2.2 still crashes horribly.
the 8100 utilities worked good to get the fan running, which is really necessary
or it gets too hot. |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
Works out of the box for the most part; XFree86 doesn't
configure correctly for the chipset (s3) but changing the XF86Config file
to use the savage driver will get everything working OK again. Also,
the modem can be made to work with drivers from www.linmodems.org. |
4 |
| same |
8.0 |
including all updates + KDE 2.2 |
4 |
| same |
7.x, 8.0 |
Haven't managed to get the winmodem working under 8.0. Haven't
even tried irda. |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
none |
4 |
| same |
8.1b |
none |
4 |
| same |
8.0 |
This release works great right out of the box on this system. |
4 |
| same |
7.2, 8.0 |
none |
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
Works OK. |
2-3 |
| Tecra 8200 |
8.0, fr2/3 |
http://home.sprintmail.com/~khollenshead/linux/linux-winnt-tecra8200.html
|
3 |
| same |
8.0 |
Works well, except for video adapter auto-selection and
integrated wavelan card. |
3 |
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