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| Model | SUSE Linux version | Hardware Support | Remark: | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video | Sound | Ethernet | Wireless | Bluetooth | Power Management | Other | ||||
| Compaq Presario C700 | openSUSE 10.3 (i386 & x86_64) |  | | |  |  | | | I had to change the Atheros AR5006EG WiFi card with an Intel 3945ABG for a wireless network access, because the MadWiFi drivers didn't worked. The webcam led remains on all the time, got to search for an Syntek USB integrated webcam drivers (the webcam works well on Mandriva 2008.1 RC2 64bit). Otherways is a perfect machine to run xen, VirtualBox or VMware and for the daily basis work. | |
| Compaq Armada M700 | 10.0 OSS Release (i386) | , no 3D out-of-box. | | | | , with USB DLink DBT-122 stick | | | A bug prevented installation of versions before 10.3 with m700 systems using 20 GB hard drives, but has been fixed for SUSE 11. Systems using ATI Rage Mobility Pro will experience split-screen issues, and ATI no longer updates drivers for this product. | |
| Compaq evo N610c | 10.0 OSS Release (i386) | | | | | | | | Suspend to RAM not working, but suspend to disk OK. Be aware that this laptop runs extremely hot. Under load the CPU will get close to 90C even with all fans enabled. | |
| Compaq Evo N800v | 10.3 OSS Release (i586) | | | | | | | | Suspend to RAM not working, but suspend to disk OK. Be aware that this laptop runs extremely hot. Tried different settings for energy consumption in PowerManagement, but it didn´t change anything. The driver for the ATI video card isn't available, video will work but no compiz fusion or effects | |
| Compaq nx6110 | 10.0 OSS Release (i386) | | | | | | | | perfect out of the box. everything for the newbe is ready and working. | |
| Compaq nx6125 | 10.1 x86_64 | | | |  | | | | Wireless (Broadcom 43xx series) requires ndiswrapper or reverse-engineered driver: http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ . Powermanagement/ACPI works mostly but sleeping or restarting freezes the machine. Shortcutkeys (sound volume/brightness control etc.) do not work. | |
| Compaq V6000 | 10.2 OSS Release x86 | , Use nvidia installer | | | , with unsupported ndiswrapper | | | | Wireless works with ndiswrapper. Powermanagement/ACPI suspend to RAM does not work. Some shortcutkeys works (lock, brightness, suspend). | |
| Compaq Presario R3200 CTO | 10.0 RC1(x86_64) | , but suggested to use the nVidia Driver | | | , with ndiswrapper (unsupported) | | could be better | | This is an overall good notebook, and an overall great distro, I would like to see broadcom, the manufacturer of the wireless adapter, to become more involved with the OSS community to create a native driver. | |
| Compaq Presario R3470US | 10.2 (i386) & (x86_64) | , but suggest the nVidia Driver | | | , need to extract firmware from original windows driver via bcm43xx-fwcutter | | | , ALPS Touchpad needs minor adjustment | Good notebook and great distro! Needed to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to make to make the touchpad less problematic. Edit options in the section "InputDevice", where the driver is "synaptics", change options to "MaxTapMove" "0", "MaxTapTime" "0", "HorizScrollDelta" "0", Note: There are no GUI apps available for making these touchpad adjustments. | |
| Compaq Presario R4000 | 10.0 OSS Release (x86_64) | , no 3D yet. | | | , with ndiswrapper (unsupported) | | | | Runs brilliantly apart from 3D ATi graphics do not currently work with the 200M chipset at all. Also, as with the R3200 above, Broadcom needs work with the OSS community. | |
| Compaq Presario R5000 | 10.1 OSS Release (x86_64) | , haven't checked 3D yet. | | | , with ndiswrapper (unsupported) | | | | Had some issues getting the wireless running. | |
| Compaq Presario V2000 | 10.0 OSS Release (x_86_64) | No 3D | | | | | | | Everything works well excepct for the 9 in 1 card reader with FireWire port. Extremely effiecient, and the laptop stays cooler running SuSE Linux, than running MS Windows. Battery life is about the same amount of time too. | |
| Compaq Presario V4000EA | 10.2 (x86) DVD Edition | | | | | | | | Almost perfect. 3D Desktop effects work out of the box. Suspend and hibernate required "-f -a 3" being added to S2RAM_OPTS in /etc/pm/config. Suspend and hibernate are super-fast. Laptop tends to get hotter than windows did although the fan kicks in. This has never resulted in a crash however, but does have a detrimental effect on battery life. Battery life is 1.5 to 2 hours. On windows it was ~2.25 hours. Wireless, sound ethernet video all work perfectly! :-D | |
| Compaq Presario V5120NR | 10.1 (x86_64) OSS + some non-OSS | Can't get 3D | | | (bcm4318) via ndiswrapper | | | | Very good overall. Compiling latest ndiswrapper (1.23) helped wireless a lot, works with WPA. Need a good guide on ATI 3D. Power management good, but suspends glitchy (still testing). | |
| Compaq Presario 1500 | 10.1 OSS Release (x86) | 3D | | | | | | | ||
| Compaq Presario 1925 | 10.1 OSS Release (x86) | | | | | | | | Still in the process of installing, testing, and reporting. | |
| Compaq Presario 2547ai | 10.0 (x86) | 3D acc not supported yet | | | , via ndiswrapper | | | | all in all suse 10.0 works without major glitches on the machine. Suspend to ram, and Suspend to disk do not work. Also, suse 10.1 does not install on the machine , the kernel freezes during installation even with acpi settings disabled. | |
| Compaq V2410 | 10.0 OSS (i386), 10.1 OSS (x86_64) | 3D Mesa OpenGL | | | via ndiswrapper bcmwl5 | | | | SaX2 supports laptop's 1280x768 via ATI Xpress 200M out of the box, 3d via Mesa OpenGL. Newest ATI driver (as of 05/07/2006) works with 200M (tested on 10.0 - i386 only). SuSE 10.1 has better auto-mount support for external USB devices. SuSE 10.0 works, just has to be browsed through media rather than auto-detect pop-ups. | |
| Compaq V3000Z | 10.1 OSS (x86 Live DVD) | 3D | | | | | PowerNOW!Suspend | | Overall works well. However, even though the sound works, it is impossible to adjust volume, or to mute.Wireless will work but you have to use ndiswrapper with the driver it has installed on w#$dow$."Copy .inf & .sys files" | |
| Compaq Pressario V3033AU | 10.2 DVD | 3D | | | | | | | works well overall, trying 3d with xgi compiz | |
| Compaq V6302eu | 10.2 OSS (i386) | | | | | | | | Works like a charm. nvidia by installing linux-driver from nvidia.com, wireless by installing ndiswrapper, sound by update to latest alsa | |
| Compaq V2401CL | 10.2 OSS (x86 Live DVD) | | | | See remarks | | | | Had issues with installing wireless because device seemed to already be installed. When using ndiswrapper, if wireless device is already installed in Yast, edit it and change the module under hardware to ndiswrapper from bcm42xx. Don't forget to type noapic in the boot options after rebooting. Sound controls do not work, due to no drivers, but sound works!" | |
| Compaq Presario X1000 | 10.2 DVD | | | | | | | | Have tested every release from 9.1 to 10.2 on this machine. A few issues with 9.3 (shutting down actually caused a restart), but 10+ is great, even detecting the 1280x800 resolution. No luck with 3D graphics, though. | |
| Compaq 2405CA | 10.0 OSS | 3D | | | Need ndiswrapper | | | | Had to install ndiswrapper to get wireless to work (http://ndiswrapper.sf.net) | |
| Compaq 6710s | 10.2 DVD | no 3D using VESA Driver Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (i965GM Express) 800x600 as maximum resolution :( | | not detected while install | | | | | Whireless and Bluetooth have not tested. Modem, Ethernet and Video not detected while install goes. But Ethernet and Modem I'll check manually. Special Function Keys don't work except hardware handled ones (Brightness). | |
| Compaq 6710s | 10.3 DVD | | | | | | | | Whireless and Bluetooth have not tested. | |
| Compaq 6720 | 10.3 DVD | | | | | | | | On openSUSE-10.3 the wireless failed to function with iwlwifi driver, but functioned well with ipw3945 driver and wifi-radar (not with knetworkmanager). | |
| Compaq Presario V5245eu | 10.2 DVD | 3D with ATI Driver | | | Need ndiswrapper | | | | Had to install ndiswrapper to get wireless to work. Special Function Keys don't work except hardware handled ones (Brightness). Sound Keys work with Compaq Laptop Keyboard type. | |
| Compaq Presario C302NR | 10.3 DVD | , No 3D Out-Of-Box | | | BCMWL5.SYS & BCMWL5.INF installed with ndiswrapper | | | | Used YaST to install Ndiswrapper. Follow these instructions: http://en.opensuse.org/Ndiswrapper . NOTE: I used BCMWL5.SYS & BCMWL5.INF from my machine rather than the internet downloads. Internet downloads didn't work for me. Sounds works fine. Hint: During the confirmation near the end of the install do not change any video settings. If you do, you run the risk of getting a fuzzy looking display. If this happens, re-install and use the default setting openSUSE picked. | |
| Compaq Presario F700 | 10.3 CD (x86_64) | , 3D with nvidia 1-click-install. | | | , with ndiswrapper (bcmwl5.inf & bcmwl5.sys from xp partition) | | | | Works really fine, haven't tested suspend to disk and suspend to ram. | |
| Compaq Presario F700 - F730US | 11 DVD (x86_64) | , 3D with nvidia 1-click-install. | | | , with ndiswrapper (bcmwl5.inf & bcmwl5.sys from xp partition) | | | | Works really fine, haven't tested suspend to disk and suspend to ram. | |
| Compaq Presario V6650ED | 10.3 DVD 32bit | 3D not tested | After updating alsa apps | | | | , suspend doesn't work | | HP Remote Control works partially. Intel 3945ABG wireless works out of the box, without any configuring. Volume and mute buttons work out of the box too. Card Readers also works 100%!!! | |
| Compaq nw9440 | 10.3 DVD 64-bit | , 3D with NVidia 1-click-install | | | , although buggy; must change kernel module on wireless card to ipw3945 instead of iwl3945 | untested | , haven't tested suspend | Function keys are buggy : dimming controls don't work, presentation mode works sometimes, calculator button doesn't work; information button does bring up YELP | Has some drive-you-crazy bits like buggy wireless and function keys, but overall outstanding support for Linux and easy to get going | |
| Compaq Presario V6340EU | 11.0 network install 64-bit | didn't install KDE with highest resolution - installing the driver from NVidia with a new kernel fixed that, 3D not tested | | | , doesn't work out of the box - installed the firmware using the suse program and compiled a new kernel - didn't try ndiswrapper - had to disable encryption from my Belkin router | untested | untested | Volume and mute keys I can only get to work when in the mixer window on KDE (after making a .Xmodmap file as instructed from a web page) - not sure if I can get them recognised in other applications | Overall not bad, but still beyond granny installing it herself. Either you need to be able to buy OpenSuse laptops from major chains, or it needs to work out of the box especially wireless. The LAN connection to my router made life a bit easier though. | |
| Legend: | Works to some extent | Does not work | Not Tested | Not Applicable
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