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- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29Excellent site. If you included "Ubuntu" in the title or body, this will have been promoted within 10 minutes. :-) :-) :-)
- michuk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14@teckjunkie: but this was a year ago and hasn't even get to the digg frontpage, I think it's not a crime to resubmit a great website like that
- turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I remember this site back when I was trying to install linux on a laptop with no cd drive.
anyone else remember those days? - earlycj5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Then why not submit it to the site?
- mcflynnthm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This site has helped me a number of times. Dugg.
- thebanmagi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Ubuntu Edgy made laptop support very simple. Ndiswrapper 1.8 doesn't break on reboot!
- czedlitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@rad
most of the postings on the site are made by people on their own, so obviously they got it working... you just might not know as much as they do when it comes to your emachine. - vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Or use Fedora Core and the livna repository. 1 Command:
#sudo yum install kmod-nvidia
Or, for ATI:
#sudo yum install kmod-fglrx
Easier than on windows - Invid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Try this guide for your Broadcom wireless if you´re willing to use ndiswrapper:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201902&highlight=4306+ndiswrapper
Worked for me. - steal_apps01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it's very gui compared to other distros.
for older laptops ubuntu wont fly. - enkrates, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I just use System 76 products and let them worry about hardware compatibility. Ubuntu Edgy on a laptop, with no worries.
http://system76.com/index.php/cPath/1 - pat1006, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They do not include Ubuntu for Dell Inspiron B130. I have it installed and have not had any problems. My wireless card worked right out of the box even though the article says in FC5 he could not get it to work.
- randomgeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'll Digg this just because it's a good site, but really, who doesn't know about it? Googling "Dell xxxx laptop linux" for some help will invariably link you to the Linux on Laptops site.
- Soapdish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yes!
I also remember when my PC had an AMAZING 2x cdrom drive, and getting the my first game that wouldn't work on it, because it needed a ridiculous 4x cdrom drive. Then, of course there was the software my brother would make backup copies of at work, because they had a 1x cd burner - a very pricey item at that time.
Of course, my memory with computers also goes back further, but so does a lot of people's memory. - prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah, hibernation is pretty hit and miss. It works great on ubuntu on my ibook. In fact, the only complaint I have about ubuntu on my ibook is no flash support.
- Flamekebab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1NDISWrapper worked for me up until Edgy..
- randomgeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I never had a laptop back then, but I do still have a Slackware 2 CD with the 1.x kernel from back in 1995. ;)
- PRlME, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I run ubuntu Edgy on my HP Laptop. The WiFi dose not work cecause its a Broadcom WiFi chip set, however the WiFi dose work with me my Netgear wpn511 card. Other then that the setup was as easy as hitting the "next" button ah few times. I'm trying to use GIMP but its not the same as Photoshop, and i fine InkScape to be better then Illustrator.
- aura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another good community resource:
http://atomicdoc.yi.org/xwiki/bin/view/ULOS/Laptops - chengfu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Some more great tips can be found on http://www.tuxmobil.org/ (formerly know as mobilix).
- Flamekebab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I rub Xubuntu 6.06 on an old Toshiba 3490CT. Runs like a dream and even Suspend works.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ubuntu is the only flavor that I have had absolutely no problem with on the laptops. Suse is one of the worst.
- encognito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ vuke69,
You just proved my point, the average user doesn't know what "#sudo..." even means much less when, where and how to use it. It is easy to you (and me) because of your *nix experience. This *nix experience includes several different ways to do the same thing some that work and some that don't. And when you throw in all the different distributions, all hell can break loose.
Like I said before I am not trying to bash *nix but only a fanboi would say installing, configuring and using *nix is easier than windows. Remember Occam's Razor-"If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments where one suffices." - encognito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ somerandomnerd,
No guide needed. Download driver, double-click, wizard runs and installs driver, reboot. And it's the same process for almost every driver. No arcane commands, no CLI, no editing config files, changing user status, etc... I have installed drivers for windows since 3.11 and used *nix since 1993 and there is no comparison.
I am so sick and tired of arrogant OS fanboys who can't admit that their OS has flaws. I wish said fanboys would expend some of that energy into recognizing and fixing said flaws instead of just ignoring them or bashing people who can objectively look at an OS for what is which is just another piece of software. - hrdcregmer808, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i like to run a live cd off my laptop its pretty fun...
- livestradamus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I have an HP Pavilion ZE2000 and have tried a good 1/2 dozen distros (based on Slackware & Debian) and everything worked pretty much 'out of the box'
Linux has come of age :) - radu79, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Of course, I just meant that don't take the info there for granted.
As for my expertise with the Emachines, I think that owning two of them, and trying quite a few Linux distributions is enough to express my oppinion about them.
Ubuntu just won't work properly, out of the box, on them. - mbwiki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is an excellent site. I have used it over the years. A good example of what Linux community is all about.
- d03boy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This site is never updated and hardly has any information worth a ***** other than links to other peoples personal pages (which still aren't worth a *****). Not to mention this site is old as hell and anyone who has a laptop and uses Linux has probably seen it before.
- d03boy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1BTW, anyone know how to make a Dell Inspiron 8600 NOT run like a piece of ***** under Linux?
- somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Fancy posting a guide to installing the Windows drivers for a fair comparison?
- jubxie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0currently diggin this in Ubuntu Edgy on new sony vaio.
(w/ wpa wireless) very few problems. nice site though. - absolut1983, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It is a great site.
Thanks to it I could install Slackware on a Toshiba Satellite 225CDS, a Pentium 100 with 32 MB.
Miracles powered by Linux. - rayraym0fucka, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I have a hp pavilion zd7058cl and I've never been able to get ubuntu to run wireless
- msgyrd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Or in Ubuntu, download and run Automatix (its like 4 steps and is very useful to have). Then check off the respective video card driver in it's gui for your card, let it download and install, then reboot.
Not saying every install will go flawlessly, but in the last 4 or 5 computers I've put linux on, I haven't had to open text editor to install video card drivers. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0i'm posting from one.
everything is fine except i couldn't make it perform 'hibernation' properly. - michuk, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Some tips about putting Linux on one's laptop can be found also here: http://polishlinux.org/choose/laptop/
- Ninjab3ar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1yeah, helped me last year. (view techjunkie's comment)
- Zachariah, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2@teckjunkie: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_on_laptops
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2shame on you michuk for trying to steal the dupe fairy's thunder!
- radu79, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Hmm, I am not sure how reliable that site is.
For example: http://ramkiran.freezope.org/emachines (ubuntu on an eMachines 6805)
I tried Ubuntu, but it didn't detect the following things (not by default at least):
1. Wifi card.
2. Native video resolution (when using the native resolution, from the video config thing, it had nasty lines on the screen)
3. The scroll on the touchpad.
4. ACPI stuff
5. 3D videocard (ATI)
I tried other distros, and the only one that detected pretty much everything was Mandriva 2007 (although the ACPI support sucks) - encognito, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Not to bash *nix but the following is why the average user, hell even a power user, won't switch to *nix. Installing drivers for a vid card should never be this difficult:
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
First download the driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run) from NVidia's website (http://nvidia.com/)
[Note: If you know a better way on how to terminate the X-server without it re-starting, do that and skip to STEP 3, otherwise follow the instruction here!]
[Note 2: Check http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=71711&highlight=NVIDIA for alternative ways on restarting the X-server!]
Next, stop the X-server (I figure there are multiple ways of doing this - but what you can do is reboot and wait until you get to the GRUB configuration screen). If you password protected grub, press 'p' and enter it. Otherwise, simply highlight Fedora and press 'e'. Highlight the line that says kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.x ro (...) and add '3' at the end of that line. It should read something like kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.x ro root=/ (...) 3. Press enter to accept the changes and press 'b' to boot into run-level 3.
Next, become SUPER USER and change into the folder you saved the NVIDIA driver:
$ su -
$ cd [directory where NVIDIA driver resides]
Then run the installation script:
$ sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run
Edit your xorg.conf file after making a backup, which can be found in: /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
$ vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf # NOTE: You can replace vi with emacs, gedit or any other editor!
Make your xorg.conf file look like the following sample xorg.conf file:
(NOTE: In particular, look at the text in red, it most likely ought to be replaced (i.e. "modes", "monitor", "device" and "screen". And make sure to look at the comment for "module")
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Section "Files"
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
#Make sure to remove any lines that look like:
# Load "dri"
# Load "GLcore"
#And make sure to have:
# Load "glx"
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Dell Laptop"
VendorName "Dell"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1920x1200"
HorizSync 31.5 - 100
VertRefresh 30.0 - 90.0
Option "dpms"
Option "UseEdidFreqs" "yes"
Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = aspect-scaled"
EndSection
Section "Modes"
Identifier "16:10"
Modeline "1280x800" 107.21 1280 1360 1496 1712 800 801 804 835
Modeline "1280x800" 123.38 1280 1368 1504 1728 800 801 804 840
Modeline "1280x800" 147.89 1280 1376 1512 1744 800 801 804 848
Modeline "1680x1050" 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087
Modeline "1680x1050" 188.07 1680 1800 1984 2288 1050 1051 1054 1096
Modeline "1680x1050" 214.51 1680 1800 1984 2288 1050 1051 1054 1103
Modeline "1680x1050" 256.20 1680 1808 1992 2304 1050 1051 1054 1112
Modeline "1920x1200" 246.59 1920 2064 2272 2624 1200 1201 1204 1253
Modeline "1920x1200" 282.74 1920 2072 2280 2640 1200 1201 1204 1260
Modeline "1920x1200" 337.58 1920 2072 2288 2656 1200 1201 1204 1271
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA"
BoardName "Go 6800"
Option "UseEdidFreqs" "yes"
Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = ascpect-scaled"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Nvidia0"
Monitor "Dell Laptop"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection - teckjunkie, on 10/12/2007, -23/+1http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_on_Laptops_2
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