Mandrake Laptops: Airis - Cinet

This file contains a list of laptops on which Mandrake Linux has been successfully installed on. All entries have been submitted by Mandrake users.

Ratings ('Marks') range from 1, worst, to 4:

• 1-Barely working
• 2-Partially working
• 3-Mostly working
• 4-Perfectly working.

On this page:

• Airis
• AJP
• AMS
• Angel
• Aopen
• Apple
• AST
• Asus
• Chembook
• Chicony
• Cinet
• Clevo
• Compaq
• CTX
• Decision Maker

Airis

Model Rel. Comments / URL Mark
215/220 8.0 Mandrake 8.0 is working fine in this laptop. Installation went through automatically. Everything totally detected. Previously I had the 7.0 and 7.1 releases working great. 4

AJP

Model Rel. Comments / URL Mark
AJP 2200C 8.0 SIS 630 Video card does not work with mandrake 8.0 because of the dual output option. 3

AMS

Model Rel. Comments / URL Mark
Roadster 7.1 Monitor, modem, and USB issues in installation. Other than that, it's a thing of beauty 3

Angel

Model Rel. Comments / URL Mark
2250 7.1 none 4 8200 7.2, 8.0 Worked perfectly right from install. All hardware was found and configured correctly, I hardly had to do anything. Very impressive1.1 4
same 8.1 Not a single problem installing, everything was correctly found and configured. 4
same 8.1 Surprisingly terrible after how well 8.0 ran on it. It couldn't set up the PCMCIA network card and the floppy drive was completely unuseable. 2

Aopen

Model Rel. Comments / URL Mark
1556 Mandriva 2006 works perfectly http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/aopen1556.html 4
Everything works apart from the flash card reader. Getting suspend to RAM working was a challenge, but succeeded eventually. See URL.

Apple

Laptop	Date	Release	Comments
iBook		8.0RC1	none- 2
iBook		8.0	none- 4
iBook		8.0	I formatted the whole HD as free space using Mac partitioning tool, booted from the Mandrake-PPC CD, typed install-text at the prompt and the install went smoothly. At start up, it hung at detecting usb devices.Using I for interactive boot I declined usb services and was up. I've got no sound and have not checked the modem. Networking setup perfectly, and the OS looks great-3
iBook 466 SE		8.0	Video not working in XClient. Working on a fix. 3
iBook	2000	8.0	Install ok, but no sound, nor XFree4 working. The only working video is Xpmac in 8 bits :( 2
iBook	2001	8.0	20 minutes to boot up. Can't activate built-in modem.
PB G3/400		8.0RC1	none- 2
PB G3/500		8.0	none 3
same		8.0	none 2
PB G3 Lombard		8.0	Mandrake is great. You should include pmud in you PPC distro though for laptop users. 3
same		8.0	Haven't got power management working yet. 3<
PB G3 Pismo		8.0RC1	no hardware acceleration in XFree86. didn't support my German keyboard (neither XFree86 nor console). didn't let me switch consoles without a hard crash / lock-up. 2
same		8.0	Only trying on this one since I can't get the video right on my trusty iMac. 4
same		8.0	Really COOL Linux Distrib1.1 1(?) same 8.0 Best and easiest to install distro I've found1 It only gets a 3 tho because I still can't get ~OpenGL (DRI) working right (and therefore (among other things) can't play tuxracer1.1 ). I would give it a 4 otherwise. 3
PB G4 Ti		8.0	none 4
same		8.0	Not a painless install - but not far from it. Had to use text install and still can't get X to use the right hand inch of the screen. Oh and /mnt/cdrom can't be accessed. 3-4 same 8.0 Having used Mandrake on my Intel system for years, I was pleasantly surprised to learn they released a PPC version. It's running great on my ~PowerBook G4 (dual boot w/ Mac OS 9.2.1, 256MB ram, etc.) 4

• iBook

Model Rel. Comments / URL Mark
iBook 8.0RC1 none 2 same 8.0 none 4 same 8.0 I formatted the whole HD as free space using Mac partitioning tool, booted from the Mandrake-PPC CD, typed install-text at the prompt and the install went smoothly. At
start up, it hung at detecting usb devices.Using I for interactive boot I declined usb services and was up. I've got no sound and have not checked the modem. Networking
setup perfectly, and the OS looks great1.1 3
iBook 466 SE 8.0 Video not working in XClient. Working on a fix. 3
iBook 2000 8.0 Install ok, but no sound, nor XFree4 working. The only working video is Xpmac in 8 bits :( 2
iBook 2001 8.0 20 minutes to boot up. Can't activate built-in modem. 2

• ~PowerBook

PB G3/400 8.0RC1 none 2
PB G3/500 8.0 none 3 same 8.0 none 2 PB G3 Lombard 8.0 Mandrake is great. You should include pmud in you PPC distro though for laptop users. 3 same 8.0 Haven't got power management working yet. 3
PB G3 Pismo 8.0RC1 no hardware acceleration in XFree86. didn't support my German keyboard (neither XFree86 nor console). didn't let me switch consoles without a hard crash / lock-up. 2
same 8.0 Only trying on this one since I can't get the video right on my trusty iMac. 4
same 8.0 Really COOL Linux Distrib1.1 1(?) same 8.0 Best and easiest to install distro I've found1 It only gets a 3 tho because I still can't get ~OpenGL (DRI) working right (and therefore (among other things) can't play tuxracer1.1 ). I would give it a 4 otherwise. 3
PB G4 Ti 8.0 none 4
same 8.0 Not a painless install - but not far from it. Had to use text install and still can't get X to use the right hand inch of the screen. Oh and /mnt/cdrom can't be accessed. 3-4 same 8.0 Having used Mandrake on my Intel system for years, I was pleasantly surprised to learn they released a PPC version. It's running great on my ~PowerBook G4 (dual boot w/ Mac OS 9.2.1, 256MB ram, etc.) 4 same 8.0 none 4 same 8.0 none 4 same 8.0 none 1

AST

Model Rel. Comments / URL Mark
Ascentia M 7.2, 8.0 Some small video artifacts at times. But the exact video card is not shown in the setup. It still performs pretty well. 3-4

Asus

Model Rel. Comments / URL Mark
A1000 8.0 none 4
A1300 8.0 Works fine, once you get XFree right (must have vga=791 in Lilo) 3
same 8.1 I have problems with my LCD screen… Can't find out what it is exactly, but it's annoying. Hoping to fix it soon. Other than that it's working fine. 3 A1330 8.1 The ~SiS video accelerator is now supported. 4
B1000 8.1 everything works fine:sound,net,etc still haven't tried firewire,modem. 4
F7400B 7.2 I'm running XFree4.1.0 KDE2.2 and KOffice1.1 I have everything working: DVD, USB, pcmcia network + modem but not ir and DRI 4
L7000 8.0 none 4 same 8.1b Problems with my sound card which is an Intel 82440mx with ac'97 codec.
Rest is detected fine. 3
L7000G 8.0, 8.1 Works perfectly out of the box. Sound quality could be better, but that is due to the AC97
codec. 3
L7300 8.0 Only runs with XFree86 3.3.6… 3 same 8.0 Everything quite good, except the problem with fonts in the web browsers, as usual. I can't check it now (laptop broken), but I think I am using framebuffer, as graphic card is not supported. 3
L8200 8.0 none 3 L8400B 8.0 Buggy sound drivers (Aureal Au8810). 3
L8400K 8.0 Only winmodem doesn't work 4
M2400 10.1 All device working, touchpad is still having some problem on the censitivities. (Have not try out with 1394 & Ir)
M8300 8.0 The best distribution i 've tried. good looking, convenient configuration and excellent hardware compatibility(it can recognize the sound card and network card i 've installed). 3-4
P6300 8.0 Worked like a charm on right out of the box. 4 same 8.1 Smooth installation and running. Detected all hardware and PCMCIA cards during initial install. Other than tweaking, nothing else really required. 4
S5200N 10.0 Wifi is working (but some hang with ssh), winmodem is working well with SmartLink (ftp://ftp.smlink.com/linux/unsupported/). The rendering of videos are bad. It works bad with Totem and well with Mplayer. Then if you launch Totem it doesn't work anymore with Mplayer.

Z83Cseries avec cpu : T5300; écran : 17" WXGA+ ; carte graphic : ATI RADEON X1450; réseau : ethernet ; MANDRIVA 2007.1 PWP. Tout fonctionne exception faite de la webcam et des boutons ASUS spécifiques à cet ordinateur.

Chembook

Model Rel. Comments / URL Mark 6120n 6.5 none 1

Chicony

Model Rel. Comments / URL Mark
MP-979 8.0 All works perfectly, except Yamaha OPL3-SAx sound hardware which is not
identified at all. 3

Cinet

Model Rel. Comments / URL Mark
Smartbook 400 7.0,7.2,8.0,8.1b2 Sound card is not supported. Except for that, everything is1.1 4

Clevo

Model Rel. Comments / URL Mark
2700C 8.0 Was difficult to get the screen working, but eventually managed with help from www.linux-laptop.net. Sound doesn't work yet though. 2

Compaq

Laptop	Date	Release	Comments
Presario V2000	September 2005	2006	Everything works in 64bits. The Broadcom wireless card needs ndiswrapper available at ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/ferrari_4000/driver/winxp64bit/80211g.zip

CTX

Model Rel. Comments / URL Mark
EZ Book 700 8.0 Worked great. Only need drivers for my Linksys Wireless NIC. 4
same 8.0 No problems - everything worked as expected. 4
EZ Book 700E series 7.1 none 3 same 8.0 doesn't have enough video drivers for Neomagic, only one generic that makes the everything on the screen BIG only one Resolution 800x600 3-4
EZ Book 800 8.0 Works good. I had 7.1 tweaked out better but just haven't had time to
tweak my 8.0 installation… There is a problem when shutting down and the floppy is removed. I can get around it by making the floppy manual mount and just making sure it is unmounted before shutdown. With 7.1 I even had the sleep with shutdown to disk working.
One note, I have to disable APMD in the kernel or the laptop will not boot––only numbers scrolling quickly on the screen… 4

Decision Maker

Model Rel. Comments / URL Mark
DM 1009 8.0 Sound (ESS Solo-1)works some of the time. Prism 802.11b wireless works perfectly. Video works only with XFree 3. 3

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