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Model	SUSE Linux version	Hardware Support							Remark:
Model	SUSE Linux version	Video	Sound	Ethernet	Wireless	Bluetooth	Power Management	Other	Remark:
Inspiron 1420	11.0	AIGLX works by enabling 3D effects. needs only the graphics driver(nvidia) to be installed	works out of the box		works out of the box		Suspend works using "s2ram --force --vbe_post --vbe_mode"
Inspiron 1420	10.3	XGL and AIGLX works activating 3d.	After updating driver with PCI ID's for the hda card.		Works with NDISWrapper or bcm43xx-fwcutter(recomended)		Suspend works using "s2ram --force --vbe_post --vbe_mode"		Scrolling: Touchpad scroll does not work ( fixed in Kernel 2.6.24)
Inspiron B130	10.0, 10.1								Wireless: Broadcom bcmwl5a via NDISwrapper ACPI=off to boot. No power management
Inspiron 510M	10.1 and 10.2								10.1: highest res. (1400x1050) and beamer work out of the box. 10.2: suspend to disk works well. Network, sound, X-session, all resume properly. Did not test under 10.1. 10.2: volume and mute keys (Fn-PageUp, Fn-PageDn, Fn-End) work. 10.1\|10.2: Bluetooth work like a charm with mouse and my phone Sony K800i
Inspiron 600m	10.0								Wireless: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200bg
Inspiron 600m	10.2	Default driver supports 3d. Running XGL, Compiz and Beryl!						Wireless: Intel Pro works right out of the box.	ATI default driver allows for 3d and works with compiz and beryl! When install is done make sure to enable 3d. That's it! Beryl runs a little slow but is usable.Compiz is probably better for this laptop. Do not install ATI Drivers from the ATI site. No modem test.
Inspiron 600m	10.3 rc1	Default driver supports 3d. Running XGL, Compiz Fusion						Wireless: Intel Pro works right out of the box.	ATI default driver allows for 3d and works with compiz fusion. No modem test.
Inspiron 630m / XPS M140	10.1							Didn't test modem; dual-head appears supported, did not test.	Wireless: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200bg Audio buttons worked after gnome-keybinding- properties
Inspiron 640m	10.1	out of the Box	out of the Box	out of the Box	ipw3945d included in extra CD	out of the box, use kbluetooth to transfer files	out of the Box	Did not test Memory Card Reader although detected.	Should be support for TV out (S-Video) and external monitor. Tried with sax2 but did not succeed. Tough time Multimedia/Special Key support, use lineakd. The keys should be detected and supported out of the box like in Ubuntu
Inspiron 640m	10.2							SD card reader works out of box.	mic jack: "options snd_hda_intel model=ref" doesn't works, still looking for a solution. s-video out doesn't work.
Inspiron 700m	10.1
Inspiron 1000	10.3							Wireless required madwifi
Inspiron 1100	10.2				NA			No built in wireless. Used a Linksys card instead with ndis wrapper. Setup was 1,2,3	Everything worked out of the box. No modem test.
Inspiron 1300	10.0 Final, 10.1 Final	Widescreen with 915resolution			Broadcom bcmwl5 via NDISwrapper		. Needs ACPI=off to boot	Modem not tested
Inspiron 1501	10.2							Wireless: MiniPCI (Dell Wireless 1390 & 1490) via ndiswrapper. If using 64bit version of openSUSE, ensure that you obtain 64bit Vista drivers from Dell website. Also disable wireless card hotkey in BIOS to ensure that wireless networking stays on, or ndiswrapper will have problems.	Add pci=nomsi to boot parameters when installing openSUSE.
Inspiron 1520	10.3		, some games have problems with simultaneous sound output						Wireless kill-switch events are not properly handled by networkmanager Suspend to disc does not work properly Standby does not work After suspend to ram only one cpu core is available and changing cpu policy doesn't work Adjusting the screen brightness by software is not supported
Inspiron 1525	10.3		partially					Sound partially with 1.0.16 alsa; Ethernet works with kernel >=2.6.23; wireless works with iwlwifi-kmp-default >=1.2.0_2.6.23.17_ccj64-0.1;	suspend to disk partial; suspend to ram NO http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/GNU/Linux_on_a_Dell_Inspiron_1525
Inspiron 4150	10.2							Wireless: MiniPCI - 2915ABG	Video - ATI Mobility 32MB - Shared 3D acceleration by software only XGL non-working PCMCIA USB 2.0 works flawlessly.
Inspiron 5000	10.1							Wireless: DWG650	Wireless with ndiswrapper and pcmcia card No bluetooth, too old PCMCIA credit card modem, Novell-ZMD must be shut off for dial-up to work
Inspiron 5100	10.1
Inspiron 5150	10.0								Wireless: MiniPCI (Dell Wireless 1350) via ndiswrapper. Needs acpi=off to boot, so no power management.
Inspiron 6000	10.0 Final, 10.1				, except the LED that shows whether wifi is on or not			Built-in SD Card reader does not work
Inspiron 6000	10.2				, except the wifi LED comes on sporadically		Will suspend, but not resume	SD Card reader works
Inspiron 6000	10.3				, except the wifi LED comes on sporadically			fglrx drivers are hit and miss. Default radeon drivers work well.
Inspiron 6400	10.1 RC3				, MiniPCI (Dell Wireless 1390) via ndiswrapper.			Modem not tested. Special function keys work (including the sound keys)
Inspiron 6400	10.2 x86_64	with fglrx drivers						Modem, bluetooth not tested. Special keys, SD card reader, suspend work. Sound needs to be configured manually by specifying model=w810 in /etc/modprobe.d/sound. Issues with movie viewing, needs to specify gl2 drivers in MPlayer	Requires some manual tweaking. Tested with 8.33.6 ATI drivers
Inspiron 6400	10.3 x86_32	3d working (intel 945)						Modem not reconigzed, bluetooth working fine. Also special keys, SD card reader, wireless (need to install bcmxx driver from dvd.
Inspiron 7000	10.0 final				,pcmcia of Ralink (rt2500) workes OK
Inspiron 8200	9.3				, PC Card - Cisco 340 Series		Will suspend, but not resume
Inspiron 8200	10.0 Final				, PC Card - Cisco 340 Series		Will suspend, but not resume
Inspiron 8500	10.0 Final, 10.1 Final				, using ndiswrapper
Inspiron 8600	10.0 final				, installing firmware RPM		suspend to RAM only with vbetool
Inspiron 8600	10.1						Hibernate
Inspiron 9100	10 beta 1			Needed to be fooled around with.	Sadly no :( Is very important to me so I took 10.0 Beta 1 off. Did not fool around to much.				Very happy for a beta release
Inspiron 9300	10.0 OSS	3D enabled (NVidia GeForce Go 6800)			(Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG)			Special function keys:	I just installed the ipw2200 with YaST2
Inspiron 9300	10 RC 1	but no 3D (ATI M300)			Copy firmware for ipw2200 to /lib/firmware			Special function keys :	Looks good ... Just need the 3D graphics and wireless eth to work out of the box
Inspiron 9400	10 RC 1	but no 3D (Intel 945GM)			ipw3945 must be download from intel
Inspiron 9400	10.1	with 3D with NVIDIA drivers (7900 GS)			ipw3945 must be download from intel
Inspiron 9400	10.2	with 3D with NVIDIA drivers (7900 GS)	Subwoofer doesn't work
Inspiron 9400	10.2	with 3D with ATI Drivers (X1400)	Built-in subwoofer not funcioning though		Intel wireless, worked out of the box	Not installed on my system			Followed the guide for the ATI drivers [1]
Inspiron XPS Gen 1	10.0 Final	Yes, but requires ATI proprietary driver (ATI 9800 Mobility)			Yes, but need to use ndiswrapper (Broadcom 1450ABG)
Inspiron XPS Gen 1	10.1 GM	Yes, but requires ATI proprietary driver (ATI 9800 Mobility). This one is a tad trickier, you must use the "generate package" feature on the driver run installer. You can't run the installer in default mode.			Yes, but need to use ndiswrapper (Broadcom 1450ABG)
Latitude 120L (Brazil)	10.1				Intel 2200 fully supported, Broadcom/Dell cards need NDISwrapper		Full power management, CPU throttling on Pentium M-equipped configurations.	Built-in modem not tested	Works with 10.1 out of the box, however, Wi-Fi needs either specific Intel drivers (for 2200/2915) or Windows drivers and NDISWrapper (for Dell wireless cards).
Latitude C600	10 beta 2						Not fully. Suspend to disk results in garbage on screen. Reboot required to fix.		No wireless or bluetooth to test.
Latitude C610	10 beta 3						suspend2disk works suspend2ram doesn't work standby works	Modem requires nongpl driver slamr.ko and smartlink-softmodem	Tested with FlashBIOS A16. Could not test modem due to missing smartlink-softmodem.
Latitude C840	10.2				BroadCom NDISWrapper
Latitude CPxJ	10.0 OSS	, manual changes are necessary to get resolutions different from 800x600 (see Dell Latitude CPx J-Series).					, only Suspend-to-Disk. After resuming from any other mode, the screen remains black.
Latitude CPxJ	10.3
Latitude D500	10.2	Intel 855GM - sluggish 3D support			You must install ipw-firmware to get the wireless working
Latitude D520	10.3	Intel 945GM - good 3D support			You must install a newer ipw3945 driver to get the wireless working - can be installed using Software Management				Video can be unstable at times coming out of standby or switching to console and back to X - installing Xorg 7.3 fixed this
Latitude D600	10.2	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 - no 3D support though			You must install ipw-firmware to get the wireless working				Haven't tested bluetooth
Latitude D610	10.0 OSS final	ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Radeon Mobility M300] both radeon driver and ati proprietary	Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)	Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)	Intel 2200BG (rev 05) Please Note This		Suspend is flakey. It has worked and fails sometimes too.
Latitude D620	10.2 OSS final, 10.3	nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 110M / GeForce Go 7300	Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [10.3: playback works, the internal mic works (update alsa)]	Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)	Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network ConnectionPlease Note This	10.3	10.2: It`s working without any problems. [10.3: works partly]		Bluetooth works perfectly. [10.3 Power Management details: suspend to disk works ok but when it wakes up it doesnt restore power to usb devices. suspend to RAM it does not work]
Latitude D630	10.3 Final				make sure all ipw3945 drivers & firmware (esp. non-oss) selected during install. Otherwise, post install ipw-firmware and ipw3945d packages from non-oss repository or Extras CD. Also, be sure the wireless kill switch is not turned off, it is near the IR port. ipw3945 kernel module bug in 10.3: go to HCL/Network Adapters (Wireless) for fix..
Latitude D800	10RC1, 10.2, 10.3				after putting the contents of firmware v2.3 [2] in /lib/firmware.	external Cellink BTA-3100 usb works fine.	Not with bios version a05; will test with bios version a12
Latitude D820	10.3 Final				make sure all ipw3945 drivers & firmware (esp. non-oss) selected during install. Otherwise, post install ipw-firmware and ipw3945d packages from non-oss repository or Extras CD. Also, be sure the wireless kill switch is not turned off, it is near the IR port. ipw3945 kernel module bug in 10.3: go to HCL/Network Adapters (Wireless) for fix..
Latitude LS	10.1		with a little work						still working on the ethernet but install was easy and most hardware works fine.
XPS M1210	10.3 KDE-CD	Intel Centrino Duo, 1280x800 widescreen supported	Audio buttons work		Intel PRO/Wireless 3945abg OK after removing ipw3945 packages		S3 works, S4 not	dual-head with NVIDIA driver	info about the install. Build in camera and microphone work
Inspiron XPS M2010	10.1 GM	Yes, but requires ATI proprietary driver (ATI Mobility Radion X1800).	Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller, Line-Out works but internal speakers do not	Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)	Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network ConnectionPlease Note This				bundled DELL bluetooth-mouse won't pair
Latitude X1	10 beta3, 10.0	*			with download of firmware rpms				*Installation requires much know-how more info
Latitude D820	10.2						Suspend works most of the time		Didn't test the modem or smart-card reader. Rest of the components worked with a default install
Vostro 1000	10.3 x86_64	Yes, but requires ATI proprietary driver (ATI Radeon Xpress Series). See: HCL/Radeon Xpress 1150			Works great with bcm43xx driver and broadcom firmware from Packman repository. PS.: Works with lower performance with Ndiswrapper		S2ram works with the options s2ram -f -a 3 & s2disk works but you need to disable the option of locking the screen when returning on the options of kpowersave FYI: Suspending and Hibernation works only on 64 bit version		Smart-Reader works with no configuration. Rest of the components worked with a default install
Vostro 1400	10.3	Works with the NVIDIA proprietary driver (NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS.	Had to use "model=3stack" to get sound working		via ndiswrapper & Broadcom driver bcmwl5 or by installing the package "bcm43xx-fwcutter" & running "install_bcm43xx_firmware"		Suspend to RAM doesn't work. Suspend to disk works, but still has some issues.	Modem and smart card reader not tested. Integrated webcam works. Mic is detected, but doesn't work.	Media keys work. Horizontal & vertical scrolling on the ALPS touchpad work with a kernel patch which should soon get upstream.
Vostro 1500	10.3, 11.0	Works with the NVIDIA proprietary driver (NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT.	sound works. To use mic go to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gutsy_Intel_HD_Audio_Controller use method B.		via ndiswrapper & Broadcom driver bcmwl5 or replace with intel1394abg		Suspend to RAM doesn't work. Suspend to disk works, but still has some issues.	Modem not tested. card reader works. Integrated webcam works (video4linux2).	Media keys work.
Latitude ATGD630	10.3				Wireless using ndiswrapper.				Didn't test the modem. Rest of the components worked with a default install. Compiz-fusion works great
Latitude ATGD630	10.3				Wireless using ndiswrapper.				Didn't test the modem. Rest of the components worked with a default install. Compiz-fusion works great
Latitude D830	10.3				Intel PRO/Wireless 4965 Intel PRO/Wireless 3945		Suspend to RAM with "-f -p -m"	Modem not tested.	Media key mute did not work. (possible fix: select 'Front' instead of 'PCM' as the main channel by right-clicking on KMix, then it works as expected in my case!)
Precison M65	10.3