Hardware that works in Linux

I thought it would be nice to have a thread on if your hardware works out of the box and how you got it to work.
I'll go first:
Dell Inspiron 1501
AMD Turion MK-36
Dell Wireless 1390
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150
Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon
Hardware that worked out of the box:
Dynamic switching thingy(allows the proc to change frequency)
Everything else except:
Wireless (fw-Cutter)
GPU (downloaded the relevant files from packages.ubuntu.com)
Modem (had to install the driver)
Hibernation/Standby
Brightness control.

 

I have a Compal IFL90 and everything worked in Ubuntu 8.04 except the GPU which obviously required me to download the appropriate driver.

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3895

:Edit: I don't use the camera or the fingerprint reader.

 

Laptop: HP dv9700t
Distro: Kubuntu 8.04 (x86)

Hardware that worked out of the box:
Sound (Intel ICH8)
Wireless (Intel 4965AGN)
Bluetooth adapter
Ethernet port
USB ports
Multimedia buttons
Webcam
DVD-RW drive
Remote

Does not work out of the box:
Graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS)
-Had to install the NVIDIA driver from the restricted driver manager
-DPI was too big upon restart, had to add the line ' Option "UseEdidDpi" "False" ' to /etc/X11/xorg.conf under ' Section "Device" '.
-Have not tested Compiz Fusion, only ran 'glxgears' to make sure the driver was working.

Not working:
Fingerprint reader
-I don't think there's support for this fingerprint reader under Linux, but I haven't really looked into it

Not tested:
Headphone jacks
Microphone
Express Card slot
Firewire port
VGA out
S-Video out

 

Acer 5920-6470
Centrino laptop

AFAICT everything works as well or better (mostly better) than it did in 7.10. I haven't checked the little things like all the Fn keys, etc.
I thought sound was screwed up but turns out all I had to do was go into the sound applet and make the little red crosses on the devices go away.

 

m15x w/ t9300 & 8800M ... the video driver says its unsupported but seems to work... wireless works now, (i was being stupid before) ...
bluetooth can't connect to my mouse/keyboard for some reason(mx revolution)
can't get sound to work from laptop speakers, but they work if plugged in..

alien-fx lighting still works in linux but can't customize it.. havent tried the cmd center yet.

 

The first place one should look is at
http://www.linux-laptop.net/

 

I'm trying to remember this since I don't have lappy with me...click on speaker applet in upper right corner. Go into "Preferences" (I think) and turn on all the devices - PCM, Surround, Front, etc. That will fill out the screen so that you see at least a dozen sliders. Push the sliders up at least halfway. Now look across the screen just below the sliders. Are any of the little tiny speaker icons covered with a red "X"? If so, click on those red X's to make them go away. Close out of the application and try sound again.
That's all I had to do to get my chassis speakers working. The little switch that's supposed to turn off chassis speakers when headphone's plugged in (also in the "Preferences" somewhere) still doesn't work, so to mute the chassis speakers when headphones are plugged in I open the speaker applet and click the "Surround" slider so that the red "X" is turned back on. Kind of clunky but it works.

 

type this in terminal

alsamixer

and make sure nothing is muted and the volumes are all on full.

then as root in terminal type this

alsactl store

then this

gpasswd -a yourusername audio

 

Sony Vaio AR590E Laptop
(Tested on Ubuntu 7.10 and Fedora 8, currently running Fedora 8 as primary OS)

Minor problems:
*** Although sound works, it doesn't detect headphones, and SPDIF isn't working. Maybe there's a way around it but I haven't been able to get it to work since 7 months
*** Cannot decrease screen brightness, and hence battery gives only about 60 to 70 minutes backup

Out of the box
*** WiFi works perfectly, including WEP and WPA2 (The light doesn't turn on in Ubuntu 7.10 but it's on in Fedora 8 with a recent update, and off when WiFi is disabled)
*** GeForce (requires nVidia module which is available on Ubuntu, and Livna repo for Fedora)
*** VGA port works fine and I extend the desktop to my CRT monitor
Webcam: Richoh Cam, works with the linux driver which needs to be compiled from source.
Blu-ray drive- Can read discs using the UDF 2.5 patch. There is a thread on the fedora forum with updated udf.ko module whenever there's a kernel update so you don't need to patch kernel yourself. I don't have blank discs lying around, so I never go the chance to write them, but I'm sure it should be fine.

Bluetooth, Memory stick, card reader, HDMI, S-video - Not tested, sorry
Bluetooth light is always on whether bluetooth is enabled or disabled.

Overall this laptop is excellent. and even with the minor problems in Linux, I have no regrets! I'm sure these will be fixed in the future.

Video Performance is pretty good. Mplayer plays high defenition videos using xv pretty smoothly, although gl and gl2 drops too many frames. I've used it to play Counterstrike 1.6 and Counterstrike Source on Wine and Cedega and performance was pretty good at 1920 x 1200 resolution.

 

I was thinking www.tuxmobil.org

 

// This worked for bluetooth mouse! - awesome
http://lug.wsu.edu/node/681

// I tried the commands for the sound - but they didn't work. I also tried the linux drivers from realtek site, but speakers don't work either :1

 

Here's mine:
Dell Latitude D630
Intel Centrino Duo (Core 2 Duo T7100, Intel 3945 ABG wireless, Intel X3100 integrated graphics)
Ubuntu 8.04 via. Wubi.

What works:
Pretty much everything on the system.
Wireless connects to the network fine+Hardware wireless switch works.
Sound-both through the internal speaker and headphones
All keyboard hotkeys (volume, screen brightness, etc.) work with corresponding on-screen display.
Touchpad-although I had to bump up the sensitivity a bit.
Ambient Light Sensor-Only on battery(I thought for sure that this wouldn't work but it does)
Suspend works
Compiz desktop effects work well too.

What doesn't:
Wireless On/Off light on right screen hinge doesn't turn on.
My shared Dell AIO 924 printer, but that's understandable and not a biggie.
Hibernate-the laptop appears to hibernate but ends up at the "Lock Screen" screen.
That's pretty much it.

I'm actually shocked how fast my laptop runs even using Wubi. Things that have a small but noticeable delay to start in Vista (I'm looking at you Firefox ) launch almost instantaneously in Ubuntu. I'm a Linux n00b so I'm still trying to get my bearings, but things seem to be going well.

 

IBM Thinkpad T61
Kubuntu 8.04

What works: Everything, including suspending, hibernation, wireless (Intel), bluetooth (with Blackberry 8800 as modem), external display. It's taken a few manual tweaks for some of the more advanced features, but all hardware and everything works well.

What doesn't: Nothing. No fingerprint reader or webcam on this machine.

Oh, and booboo12? Make sure your swap partition is as large as your physical RAM, and you should notice it able to hibernate. Either that, or it's with your nvidia drivers. There are fixes for that out on the 'net if your google-fu is strong.

 

For prospective Linux users; avoid Broadcom wireless chips like the plague. They are hit-or-miss devices.