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Contents 1 First Notes 2 Working Laptops 2.1 Acer 2.2 Asus 2.3 Dell 2.4 Fujitsu Siemens 2.5 HP/Compaq 2.6 Lenovo/IBM 2.7 Toshiba 2.8 Other 3 Mostly Working Laptops 3.1 Acer 3.2 Dell 3.3 HP/Compaq 3.4 Toshiba 3.5 Other

First Notes

Don't dispair if you cannot find your laptop on the list as all the Ubuntu computers can easily install Linux Mint.

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Working Laptops

This List contains details of Laptops that are known to work " out_of_the_box" with various flavours of Linux Mint.

Acer

• Acer Aspire 5920 "Felicia" works 100% out-of-the-box on this laptop. The Intel 945 graphics (with enhanced Compiz effects enabled) and Intel Wi-Fi both worked flawlessly immediately upon install. The trackpad scrolling even worked without a problem. Even the touch buttons on the right side worked no problem once configured.

• Acer Aspire 5610z (cheap WalMart computer) LinuxMint4.0 works great. I can't think of any problems that I have had. Pentium Dual core T2060 1.6mhz. 1 gig of memory. intel 945gm - graphics. Came with Vista - could not play movies without getting all choppy, blocky and stalled out. Daryna played movies without incident. Atheros and Mad-wifi played real nice together. Can connect to public wi-fi.

• Acer Aspire 4530 No problems at all - LinuxMint 7.0 "Gloria". nVidia GeForce 9100M requires proprietary driver installation after system update to increase graphics performance. AMD Athalon 64 X2 dual core @ 1.9Ghz. 1MB L2 Cache. 2 GB of DDR2 memory. nVidia GeForce 9100M G - graphics. DVD-Super Multi DL drive works flawlessly with CD and DVD burning. Acer 802.11b/g/Draf-N WLAN worked immediately after install.

• Acer 2428 Travelmate, Centrino 1.7Ghz, No problems with any of the hardware in Linux Mint 2.1 "Bea, 2.2 "Bianca", 3.0 "Cassandra", 3.1 "Celena", 4.0 "Daryna" and 5.0 "Elyssa".

• Acer Aspire 3628, Centrino 1.7Ghz. Wifi works (Intel Pro 2200bg), screen resolution (1280 x 800) is detected, 3D VGA acceleration works. All works fine in Linux Mint "Cassandra".

• Acer Asipre 1310xc, Everything works out of the box with Daryna.

• Acer Aspire 1353XV, Works with Bianca and Cassandra.

• Acer Travelmate 4230-6179 Has run any version of Mint without a hitch from Daryna on up to Felicia. Gnome down to Fluxbox.

• Acer Extensa 5220 I've ran Linux Mint 7 on it, all things work(even mine BCM4312 wifi and BlueTooth), but it has no drivers for viddocard.

• Acer Extensa 5630 EZ Everything running fine on Mint 7

Asus

• Asus A9R, Celeron 1.6Ghz, No problems with any of the hardware in Linux Mint 2.2 "Bianca" and 3.0 "Cassandra".

• Asus G1 AP021C Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz, No problems with the hardware in Linux Mint "Celena" 3.1 For the Camera in the Lid there exists a sourceforge module which works. See Blog zockertown.de Tag Asus G1

• the same with an ASUS S6F. No problem with screen resolution (1366 x 768) after adding a new package, thanks Clem

Dell

• Dell Inspiron 2650, P4-M 1.6, 512MB, Geforce 2 Go 8MB. "Felicia" Had to enable the restricted driver for the Nvidia card. 1024x768 okay with no effects or screensavers.

• Dell Inspiron 9300, Intel PRO wireless 2200BG, ATI X300. "Elyssa" Had to enable the restricted driver for the ATI-card, but everything else just works! :-)

• Dell Inspiron 8200, nVidia GeForce2 Go Linux Mint 6 "Felicia" works out-of-the-box

• Dell XPS m1330 work's fine with LinuxMint 5.0 "Elyssa". The Intel 4965 chipset (Wifi) work's in mode monitor, webcam do this work but the fingerprint reader of this adornment

• Dell Inspiron 6400/1505, Core Duo T2050, Intel 950 graphics and 3945 wireless works perfectly. Modem untested, but all other hardware fully functional with "Cassandra".

• Dell Inspiron 6400/1505, Core 2 Duo T7200, 3GB RAM, Broadcom wireless, 64MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1300, "Gloria" worked great after enabling the restricted driver for the Broadcom wireless.

• Dell Vostro 1310 Works fine, with GMA965 and Broadcom Wifi. For Wifi just one click and it works great. 3D grafics out-of-the-box, because of opensource drivers. Hotkeys for volume control work better than on ubuntu and windows! You don't need to press them all the time, you can just hold them down.

• Dell Latitude CPxJ650 with a Xircom ether card running Mint 5 XFCE. So far no problems, everything works out of the box.

• Dell Latitude D630 works very well. No problems have been encountered so far.

• Dell Precision M60 (Pentium M, 1.7 GHz,2 Gib ram, 60 Gib HDD, Nvidia G700, Intel PRO/Wireless 802.11 G) Everything but suspend and hibernate worked on install.

• Dell Inspiron 1200, Celeron M, 764 Megs Ram, Broadcom wireless, "Gloria" worked great after enabling the restricted driver for the Broadcom wireless.

Fujitsu Siemens

• Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Si 1520 ,works like a charm. see my notes:[1]

• Fujitsu Siemens AMILO M7405 ,works perfectly. Make sure to use the Intel Integrated Graphics Driver to get Compiz to work.

• Fujitsu Lifebook S Series, works perfectly. Make sure to use the Intel Integrated Graphics Driver to get Compiz to work.

HP/Compaq

• HP tc1100 touchscreen laptop - everything works out of the box after installing LinuxMint 7 "Gloria", even the touchscreen and stylus! Enabled Intel Wireless Drivers with "Windows Wireless Drivers" option and installing Windows Driver for wireless card. Great.

• HP Compaq nx9030 Intel Centrino, Pentium-M @ 1.5GHz, Intel GM855 graphics, ipw2200 Wi-Fi, No problems found with the hardware in Linux Mint versions 3.0 and 3.1. Beryl works fine too, but OpenGL apps sometimes have display glitches while Beryl turned on. This is not problem of Mint, but a i915 driver and AIGLX. Hibernate works fine even with Beryl!

• Compaq Presario 2819AP, No problems with any of the hardware. No problems with Cisco Aironet 350 Wifi card.

• Compaq Presario R3000, (Linux Mint 5.0 lite) wireless and sound did not work on livecd but once installed everything worked flawlessly...compiz, sound, wifi(fwcutter with restricted drivers manager(need wired connection to enable))

• Compaq Presario v5000 series , (Semp/Tur proceessor, Ati Mobility x200M, BCM4318), No problems with Linux Mint 3.1 "Celena" Stable, wireless working via ndiswrapper, suspend working after tweaking a few /etc/default/acpi-support parameters, XGL + compiz fusion enabled, wifi working flawlessly, Media card reader - not tested.

• Compaq Presario V6314EA works out of the box.

• Compaq Evo N610C , (Atheros wifi PCMCIA card), Elyssa installed first time without any problems. Wifi worked without a hitch. Couldn't enable visual effects though.

• Compaq Presario 2598US (2500 Series) Laptop, Wireless did not work off of live CD, but after installed to hard drive, Mint Darnya handled flawlessly. And Mint KDE only required a little help.
• Compaq Presario 2598US (2500 Series) Laptop, Wireless did not work off of live CD, but after installed to hard drive, Mint Darnya handled flawlessly. And Mint KDE only required a little help.

• HP Pavilion DV9500T Mint 6 main and Xfce. both work perfectly "out of the box" nVidia GForce 8400 GS works well. Intel pro wireless 4965 AGN works perfectly in wireless G mode (haven't tried wireless N - no local router)

• HP Pavilion dv6005ea Mint 6 x64 edition (this laptop has a AMD Turion64 X2 processor) works perfectly out of the box! After installing Mint suggested that I activate the proprietary Broadcom STA wireless driver, and after I did that and rebooted, wireless networking is working perfectly! No problems detected so far. Even some of the multimedia keys work (mute and change volume).

The other multimedia keys can probably be bound to launch a media player, I haven't checked that out. I haven't tested suspending / hibernating.

• Compaq Evo N600C 1.2 PIII Mobile cpu w/ memory maxed out to 1 gb. Using Belkin F5D9010 PCMCIA card for wireless. Dualbooted WinXP and Mint 5,6,7. Happiest with Win2K and KDE versions of Mint. No Problems encountered so far.

• HP Compaq nc6000, Pentium M 725, 512MB, 32MB ATI Mobility Radeon 9600, Broadcom wireless, "Gloria" worked great once proprietary Broadcom wireless driver was activated.

Lenovo/IBM

• Lenovo 3000 n200 works out of the box including sound and 3D desktop. Suspend/resume needs tweak to shutdown usb module on suspend.

• IBM Thinkpad R30, Intel P3 1GHz, Trident Cyberblade/i1, screen resolution (1024x768), all hardware including Thinkpad volume key works cleanly. All works in Linux Mint 3.0 XFCE.

• IBM ThinkPad T61 installed Darnya with no issues.

• ThinkPad T43 running Elyssa main. Still don't have the fingerprint working. Got some info here if interested.

• ThinkPad X300 Works very well out of the box with Felicia including: wifi, native 1440x900 resolution, sound, suspend, webcam, LED reading light, battery status, 3D Desktop effects via Compiz Fuzion. Most function keys already work as expected - like fn-arrows for controlling rythmbox, brightness and speaker volume. Tweaking required for use of built-in digital microphone (pulse audio bug) and fingerprint reader. Some minor imperfections with wifi/usb when coming out of suspend mode. Terrific Linux laptop!

Toshiba

• Toshiba Satellite S2450-101[2] LiunxMint 5.0 "Elyssa" works great with out any problems. Envy was used to get 3D support with the nVidia 420 Go. I installed an INTEL 2915ABG[3] mini-pci wifi card and that works fine also - a fully supported laptop.

• Toshiba A100 TA7 (PSAA8C-TA702C), Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor T5500, Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 with 8MB-128MB, Realtek ALC861, 10/100 integrated Ethernet LAN, Intel Wireless LAN (802.11a/b/g).

• Toshiba Satellite A15-S129 - "Felicia" works perfectly out of the box, including recognition of Windows Workgroups on NAT-ed local network and print shares.

• Toshiba Satellite A135-S4467 - Both Linux Mint 5 and 6 (Main and KDE CE tested) work "out of the box."

• Toshiba Tecra S2 Installed 2 gigs of memory. Mint 5,6,7 Gnome and KDE run fine. Everything works Ootb.

Other

• LG R500, everything works out of the box with Elyssa, including WIFI

• Forcebook Terra Centrino 1.6Ghz, No problems with any of the hardware in Linux Mint 2.2 "Bianca" and 3.0 "Cassandra" (didn't test card reader or infrared).

• MPC Transport T2300 Intel Centrino. Ubuntu flavours work right out of the box. Wireless is a Intel Pro/Wireless 3945ABG. It saw my wireless network and so many others in my neighbourhood that I was very impressed. The restricted software such as flash player worked on ALL of my kid's favorite websites without any tweaking. This also has an ATI card that was detected and drivers for it were immediately downloaded. Note: MPC just declaired bankruptcy and they just shut their doors.

• MSI Mega Book S262, Everything works out of the box (from Barbara to Cassandra), card reader perfect, WiFi too

• Rock Pegasus TI works fine with LinuxMint 4.0 "Daryna". Modem driver is installed by "restricted-manager" at first boot (Note: the package might not be there if you installed the KDE edition, get it with Synaptic or apt-get). Same for ATI driver. Everything else is perfectly autodetected.

• Samsung Q35 (NP-Q35) both versions, All hardware works with 2.2 "Bianca" and "Cassandra" with the exception of sound this can be fixed with this simple change:

add single_cmd=1 and model=laptop-eapd options to /etc/modprobe.conf:

options snd-hda-intel index=0 single_cmd=1 model=laptop-eapd

• Sharp Muramasa PC-MM2-5NE, Works with Daryna.

• System76 Pangolin Celeron M 1.46Gz, No problems with any of the hardware in Linux Mint 3.0 "Cassandra", connected flawlessly to wireless with WiFi card.

• Sager NP2096 Works great ootb. Wifi works right away. The only think is that you need to install nVidia drivers when the system is installed, for the video card of course. Acid 1 04:23, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Mostly Working Laptops

The following list contains details of Laptops that are known to work but may have minor issues (which must be listed) with various flavours of Linux Mint.

Acer

• Acer Aspire 6530 16" Widescreen AMD 64 Turion X2, ATI Mobility Radeon 3650 dedicated graphics card, wired ethernet, atheros wireless (restricted drivers/older version of the Catalyst driver), touch buttons (after configuring shortcuts), and pretty much everything else work using the live cd and after hard disk install. However when attempting to use headphones there is no sound in the headphones, and front speaks continue to be used. This is remedied by going into Volume Control>Preferences> and adding the Surround output control. To use headphones mute Front in volume control and un-mute Surround. Although if you use external speakers you don't need to switch this more than once. Sleep/Hibernate seems a little flaky on wake up as well.

• Acer Aspire 9410 17" Widescreen Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor T2080, Seems to work mostly out of the box. The only problems I ran into is the built in Wifi adapter failed to work. This may be correctable with ndiswrapper but is not confirmed. The lib web cam may also not work, but I have not confirmed this. This laptop was tested with Linux Mint 3.1 Celena.

• Acer Aspire 3023 WLMi Everything works out of the box in Celena, except the WiFi adapter. You need to install ndiswrapper windows drivers and acerhk to make it work.

• Acer Aspire 5102WLMI AMD Turion64 X2, ATI Mobility X1300 graphics and AR5007EG Wireless, Graphics are perfect with restricted drivers enabled, though could not get compiz working before without killing the mouse(not sure why) and have not tested this install. Wireless works perfectly under ndiswrapper, have not tested the ath_pci revision, Special function keys not working, although Fn+ function keys work perfectly. Not tested suspend or hibernate. Webcam works well with cheese although colour is a bit off. Wont always detect external hard drive on boot.

• Acer Aspire 1690 DDR2 Works fine, only thing not working are the card readers. Wifi no problems, drivers for X700 also no problems. Sound good, most of the things work out of box.

• Acer TravelMate 5720 Running from the live CD, the wireless didn't work but after installation it worked fine (Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG). The function keys ('Fn' + key) even work, e.g. for display brightness. Remaining problems: (1) Sound stops working after restoring from hibernate. Doesn't bother me much. There is a forum post from someone with the same problem. Sound volume level is rather low, even with sliders adjusted all the way up. Laptop uses Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller. (2) Sometime after the display goes to sleep (i.e. power-management kicks-in, after screensaver has been active), the machine can lock up - I have to do a hard reset. This I find less acceptable. Don't know whether this is s/saver related or something to do with video drivers. Display on this laptop uses the Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller. Tried looking in forums for a solution - not found one so far.

• Acer Aspire 5535 Practically everything works out of the box with Gloria including touchpad scrolling, volume/wireless buttons, most of the Fn keys, and the built-in webcam, card reader and wireless. Opensource ATI driver is working well albeit without 3D as I don't want to install the buggy fglrx. The only thing not working (aside from a handful of more obscure keys) is suspend-to-RAM, this just leads to a blank screen upon attempt to resume. Hibernate works perfectly though.

Dell

• Dell Latitude D600, As of Felicia, hardware and power management are fully supported out-of-box without the need for proprietary drivers. A problem with keyboard Fn-shortcuts is an Ubuntu 8.10 upstream bug #285323, which has an easy workaround.

• Dell Latitude D810, Works with Elyssa just great. Installed video drivers (ATI RADEON X600) using EnvyNG and wireless (Broadcom 4318/Dell Wireless 1370) with bm43-fwcutter. Other than that, everything else was supported out-of-box.

• Dell Inspiron i6000 1.5 GHz 512 MB RAM , Linux Mint works out of the box, including hibernate, suspend, standby. The only thing that doesn't work is wifi, which works 100% with ndiswrapper.

• Dell Inspiron B130 1.5 GHz 512 MB RAM , Linux Mint works out of the box, including hibernate, suspend, standby. The only thing that doesn't work is wifi, which works 100% with ndiswrapper.

• Dell Inspiron 2200 After multiple attempts with different distributions, I changed the Broadcom wireless card for an Atheros 802.11g card that was available from a friend. Under a fresh installation of Mint 4.0, everything worked! I have a laptop with decent screen resolution, sound, and my wired and wireless networking. The Atheros card (AR5212/5213) was recognized without any problem, and WPA was as simple as typing in the passkey. The machine is dual-boot with Windows XP SP3.

• Dell Inspiron 1420 Linux Mint 7 installs without problems. After installation restricted drivers for the Broadcom wireless and the Nvidia graphics must be installed (you will need a wired connection to do this). Media keys and sound work out of the box. Sleep works fine, but resuming from hibernation is slow. The multi card reader works and while Mint reports that bluetooth works, I did not test it.

HP/Compaq

• HP Pavilion dv2108ea Intel(R) 'Centrino Duo' CPU T2050 @ 1.60GHz 1 GB RAM Intel 3945 a,b,g WiFi , Linux Mint more or less works out of the box, including hibernate, suspend, standby. The only thing that doesn't work is the web cam in the laptop lid.

• HP Pavilion dv6618eo AMD Athlon X2 on Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna, nVidia GeForce 8400M GS works with envy, Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI works with ndiswrapper [4], webcam (064e:a110 Suyin Corp.) works out of the box with Cheese, though with a poor framerate, Quick buttons works with MPlayer. Hibernate, suspend, 5-in-1 card reader and remote control has not been tested.
• Acer Aspire 4315 works mostly out of the box with Daryna - only small problem with Atheros chip which can be solved by installing madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz without further linux knowledge.

• Compaq NC4010 Works flawless, minor adjustments will need to be done when using Firefox the first time, besides that the only problem that I haven't been able to solve it is connecting an external keyboard via the USB port.

• HP 1050 netbook, running Elyssa. Everything works out of the box (including WIFI), except the sound headphone jack - plugging in the headphone jack sends sound to it, but the laptop speakers remain on.

Toshiba

• Toshiba Satellite P200-1EE Mint 4.0 works with no major problems found so far and can be used quite happily out of the box. The ATI HD2600 graphics works fine out of the box but updating the driver using Envy (manual settings/choose latest ATI binaries) increases performance and resolution to 1440 x 900. Compiz works automatically after the Envy update with a minor glitch (the program screen thumbnails/previews appear white when switching programs/desktops). Because I chose a separate /boot partition, the grub graphic (message.mint) was not found but this was corrected by copying the image file from /etc/grub to /boot/grub and editing menu.lst to match (leave out "/boot" in the path). Some of the special function keys work (volume dial, mute, Internet button, screen brightness); other keys have not been tested yet. Haven't yet tested hibernate & suspend, wireless (but it scans and detects APs close by) or card reader. I'll update this as I test things or find problems. So far, I'd recommend this laptop/Mint combination to anyone.

• Toshiba Satellite A210-11K Mint 4.0 works with no real problems. Problem with sound card: When headphones are connected, sound still plays through main speakers. Turning Master Volume off and turning PCM to full kinda solves it, but the sound level is quite low. Wifi doesn't work outta the box but can be fixed by following instructions here. 3D support doesn't work out of the box and can also be fixed by following the instructions here.

Other

• Gateway 600YGR Everything works out of the box aside from media keys. Never got them to work from 2.2 on. However, 3d works out of box, hibernation, wifi, everything is great. Even have better battery life than when WindowsXP Pro was installed.