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random_traveller

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Registered: 2009-11-16

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Dell Inspiron 1501

The wireless driver is in the AUR.
Be sure to install and use cpufrequtils (or you'll overheat).

Everything else is fairly obvious and easy.

RozenTensai

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From: Panama, Panama

Registered: 2010-07-01

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

COMPAQ Presario F754LA

Running as a cheetah

Specs:
# AMD Sempron @ 2.0GHz
# 1 GB RAM (64MB used in VRAM)
# Atheros AR5007 Wi-Fi
# nForce Mobo
# GeForce 6100 integrated graphics
# HDA Audio card (don't remember the make/model )
# 160GB Hard Disk

Everything worked out-of the box, except for the suspend/hibernate commands 'cause I haven't the time to install/configure it
Boot-up in 5 seconds from POST to X (yay!)
Using XFCE, DOSBox and Gnome-mplayer, nothing more needed I use it as a university/entertainment system, mainly for seeing movies in my bed

Oh! almost forgot. When new, the battery lasted about 3 to 3:30 hours against the poor 2 hour on MS, but when MS finally wore out the battery, it runs about 30 minutes against the 5 minutes on MS (running videos, of course)

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valium97582

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Registered: 2010-06-19

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Toshiba Satellite S60 - Works perfectly, but audio only works well with OSS, which has grown very good in v4.2. At least everything that I tested :wink:.

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hwkiller

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Registered: 2009-07-21

Posts: 56

Re: Laptops which run Arch

ASUS M50 VM

Runs brilliantly. I've had no issues that I can recall (except that the media touchpad doesn't work).

murilo

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2009-02-15

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Lenovo Thinkpad x201. Runs great.

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ac

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Registered: 2010-07-11

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Toshiba A105 S2021
Everything works except that the nic (ath5k) runs slow without nohwcrypt module parameter:  see : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1441818&page=9

Toshiba A15-S129
Everything works

rent0n

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-10-29

Posts: 457

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Toshiba A105 S2021
Everything works except that the nic (ath5k) runs slow without nohwcrypt module parameter:  see : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1441818&page=9

Toshiba A15-S129
Everything works

Post of the year for me!
Following your link I finally managed to fix the ath5k wireless slow navigation problem on my girlfriend's laptop, running Xubuntu 10.04.
Thank you so much!

I'm now forced to post my beloved laptops here!

Acer Aspire 5920

CPU: Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo
RAM: 2 GB
HD: 160 GB
OS: Arch Linux x86_64

Arch runs perfectly, except I can't enable multitouch on the touchpad (but I rarely use it).

Gericom Beetle G733

CPU: Intel Pentium 4
RAM: orignally 256 MB, upgraded to 1 GB
HD: 30 GB
OS: Arch Linux i686

No issues at all.

Cheers,

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caligo

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From: Stockholm

Registered: 2010-01-10

Posts: 79

Re: Laptops which run Arch

Lenovo IdeaPad s10-3

Cannot adjust the brightness, otherwise everything runs fine. Wireless works using the broadcom-wl driver from AUR.

[EDIT] Found a workaround solution for adjusting brightness. Wrote up an entry for the wiki.

Last edited by caligo (2010-07-20 19:47:03)

espace.ariane

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Registered: 2010-07-02

Posts: 18

Re: Laptops which run Arch

Apple Macbook 5,1

A bunch of things do need a few tweaks, as long as you don't use a desktop environment, but they get fixed easily. Some drivers (wifi, screen backlight) come from AUR, but that should almost be expected ;-)

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vae77

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Acer aspire 5532, runs perfectly.

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0mark

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Registered: 2010-06-09

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Samsung Q25, old but light, slim and cheap

Since about 2.6.32 everything except the Cardreader runs nice, even S2R and S2D. MS Cards are not working at all, working on SD Cards creates high loads and is slow. Never testet the Winmodem. Brightness Keys work, but the normaly displayed pie graph is scrambled. Docking Station works perfectly. Since some Month, the Intel Video Driver seems to be broken, so on dual head strange artifacty occure.
I changed the original Wifi for a ipw2200 and the hdd for a CF Disk, and with the latest Kernel the power consumption dropped to about 7-8W on low load and brightness.

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maroxe

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Registered: 2009-02-05

Posts: 53

Re: Laptops which run Arch

compaq 610.
Every thing works fine, even the integratedd cam!
the only unusual thing i had to do os to enable kms during bootstrap, otherwise, xorg won't start(intel graphic card inside)

frabjous

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Registered: 2010-07-13

Posts: 367

Re: Laptops which run Arch

HP dv6500, a few years old (Core 2 Duo T7200 processor 2.16GHz; 2GB RAM; NVidia 8400M GS card)
Very sluggish with windows, flies with Arch.

Still I won't buy an HP again.

imag1narynumber

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From: Connecticut

Registered: 2008-07-23

Posts: 56

Re: Laptops which run Arch

Mine is a HP G60-506, and it works quite well.

okubax

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From: Kent, UK.

Registered: 2010-04-24

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Running Arch on HP Mini-Note 2133 and everything works smoothly ...wifi, bluetooth, audio, webcam, video et. al.

Was surprised that videos play much more smoothly on Arch than on openSUSE & Ubuntu.

pauligrinder

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From: Salo, Finland

Registered: 2010-04-05

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

I actually run an Arch Linux server on a very old HP laptop, which was already a piece of crap when it was bought

uname -p and /proc/cpuinfo say it has an AMD Athlon(tm) XP Processor 2800+ processor, but BIOS says 1600+ mhz
Specs:
AMD 1,6ghz CPU
nvidia nforce 2 chipset (audio/video/etc.)
256mb RAM
40gb HDD
external HDD's: 1tb + 2x 500gb

Running:
no X-server
lighttpd: phpbb, wordpress, and mediawiki. (w/ sqlite)
proftpd
deluged: I connect to the daemon from my main laptop, no webui.
samba: I share my music and videos, so I can play them on my xbox, which is running XBMC.
screen+irssi: obviously, I have to be on irc 24/7 8)
supybot: ... and I absolutely have to have a bot with me on there.

And suprise suprise: It all runs 100% perfect with about 80 mb RAM usage on Arch Current uptime is 23 days, and I believe I installed Arch on it 23 days ago
for the record, my previous server was an older, more powerfull desktop PC, which ran the same things, but with Ubuntu server 8.04, and memory usage was around 200 mb Also, I believe my Arch server is way more secure because of hosts.allow & hosts.deny, which I knew nothing about back then (I only allow ssh and samba connections from my local network, nothing except http+ftp from the outside)

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nXqd

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Registered: 2010-07-01

Posts: 173

Re: Laptops which run Arch

I run my arch on : Gateway MD7818U
T6400
4Gb Ram
500Gb HDD

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gwapongamark

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Registered: 2010-08-11

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i've got it running on an older gateway M350 or something, I don't have it on me, its back at college, the astronomy students use it for spectroscopy

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Majki

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From: Poland/Pila

Registered: 2009-07-03

Posts: 19

Re: Laptops which run Arch

ASUS F5N
Everything works fine, I only have to edit

/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf 

By adding

options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0 model=lenovo
      alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

To get sound working.
Also i have syntek camera - driver is avalible via AUR.

kcirick

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Registered: 2010-06-21

Posts: 364

Re: Laptops which run Arch

I'm installing Arch on Macbook.

Actually through VMWare, so I'm cheating. But it's going well so far :-D

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valium97582

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Registered: 2010-06-19

Posts: 126

Re: Laptops which run Arch

Toshiba Satellite a60
Positivo Mobile (will be installednext month)

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Borosai

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From: Sandy Appendix, U.S.A.

Registered: 2006-06-15

Posts: 227

Re: Laptops which run Arch

ASUS Eee PC 1001P

Some things work, some things still need to be configured (reliable display brightness, power management, hotkeys). So I can't say it runs very well yet, but it's on there.

delor

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-02-02

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

HP 550 with Intels' GPU and WiFi.

Voltage

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From: Moscow

Registered: 2010-08-15

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Asus N71JQ
everything works fine, mostly out of box

Hund

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Registered: 2010-03-22

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

I'm running Arch on a Thinkpad T61. Works perfect as expected.

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