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ovrclkr

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From: Wisconsin

Registered: 2005-01-15

Posts: 8

Re: Laptops which run Arch

HP Omnibook 6100
Acer Apire 3004 WLMI
Runs great on both

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idjut

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From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

Re: Laptops which run Arch

ECS Green 553. Everything worked out of the box. Havent looked at suspend yet.

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Ryujin

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From: Centerville, Utah

Registered: 2005-05-12

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

I need to put mine up here it is a:
Gateway 6018GZ and everything works like a charm!
I can almost get 4 hours out of the battery!

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The_Nerd

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From: Syracuse, NY / Baltimore, MD

Registered: 2005-11-30

Posts: 134

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Acer TravelMate 4402 WlMi
Purchased from Newegg.com for about $1100 usd... a great buy for anyone who needs a good 3d card in linux

As of now, everything works.
Wireless with ndiswrapper
Special keys and wireless software switch with Acer_ACPI
Video with fglrx, 4500 fps in glxgears

My biggest gripe is having to pay for modem support, 56k speeds will cost you about $30.. otherwise 14.4bps is free for the conexant (linuxant) drivers.

I get about 2 hours on battery as well.

inf

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From: Vantaa, Finland

Registered: 2006-07-18

Posts: 102

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Old Compaq N410c here, installed Arch couple of days ago (i was using Kubunut before). Everything is running fine. Haven't had a time to configure everything so no suspend here atm.

sven

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Registered: 2005-02-01

Posts: 311

Re: Laptops which run Arch

Here I am using a 3 year-old Compaq Presario 2125EA. Everything works - sound, 3d video with the opensource radeon driver, network card, DVD, soundcard. I haven't tried the modem yet  - no need for that at least now. TV-out doesn't seem to work, but I am not entirely sure if this is a Linux issue at all. I even can't get the image at the startup while my desktop's Radeon 9200 gives the output image right at the startup.

The special FN buttons worked "out of the box" for screen brightness and sound volume FN keys I got to work at KDE by changing the keyboard settings.

I haven't much ried to get suspend to disk work yet because it is a security issue. I am also using encfs on the laptop to decrypt/encrypt stuff on the fly.

Ryujin

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From: Centerville, Utah

Registered: 2005-05-12

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

wait, how did you get the volume function keys to work?

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djpharoah

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From: SoCal

Registered: 2006-06-18

Posts: 185

Re: Laptops which run Arch

IBM Thinkpad T41p. TPs have amazing linux support.

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twiistedkaos

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Registered: 2006-05-20

Posts: 666

Re: Laptops which run Arch

IBM Thinkpad T41p. TPs have amazing linux support.

Indeed, I run arch on my IBM Thinkpad

djpharoah

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From: SoCal

Registered: 2006-06-18

Posts: 185

Re: Laptops which run Arch

I have 5 TPs at home all running various linux distros....

Cant wait to convert them all to Arch

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jakob

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2005-10-27

Posts: 419

Re: Laptops which run Arch

I have 5 TPs at home all running various linux distros....

Cant wait to convert them all to Arch

Want to sell one?

5 notebooks are way too much for one single person

djpharoah

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From: SoCal

Registered: 2006-06-18

Posts: 185

Re: Laptops which run Arch

I have 5 TPs at home all running various linux distros....

Cant wait to convert them all to Arch

Want to sell one?

5 notebooks are way too much for one single person

Sorry..but I forgot to mention everyone in my family has a TP. My mom and dad each have one (A21m and A31p), my brother has an X40 for school and I have a T20 and I just purchased a T41p.

They were all built/customized by me with parts from ebay with the exception of the T41p.

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smarcher

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From: Calcutta

Registered: 2003-12-12

Posts: 42

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

An old Sony Vaio PCG-XE17 (Pentium III with 256 MB RAM). I just have to figure out how to disable Firewire. When I reboot, sometimes the firewire become eth0 and the dlink pcmcia becomes eth1 and vice versa the next boot. Otherwise everything works.

Sudeep

stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

When I reboot, sometimes the firewire become eth0 and the dlink pcmcia becomes eth1 and vice versa the next boot.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ude … _Each_Boot

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poetofnumbers

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From: Kansas, United States

Registered: 2004-10-30

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Here is a list of laptops mentioned on this topic which are for sale by NewEgg.

Acer Aspire 3004 WLMi
Fujitsu LifeBook P7120
HP NC6120
Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad T60
Toshiba Satellite M55-S351
TwinHead DuraBook N15RI Pentium M 750
TwinHead DuraBook N15RI Pentium M 760

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1c3d0g

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Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 81

Re: Laptops which run Arch

...will Arch work fine with something like this? :?

elasticdog

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From: Washington, USA

Registered: 2005-05-02

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

...will Arch work fine with something like this? :?

It should work just fine considering they offer Ubuntu pre-installed and it's running a Core Duo processor (thus it's at least i686).

1c3d0g

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Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 81

Re: Laptops which run Arch

Thanks elasticdog. Glad to see another dog on this board.

tardo

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Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 526

Re: Laptops which run Arch

mm, add Dell Inspiron e1405 to the list... almost everything works anyways...

smarcher

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From: Calcutta

Registered: 2003-12-12

Posts: 42

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

When I reboot, sometimes the firewire become eth0 and the dlink pcmcia becomes eth1 and vice versa the next boot.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ude … _Each_Boot

Thanks, I had for the time being just disabled the loading of the firewire modules.
Sudeep

Duke

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-06-22

Posts: 41

Re: Laptops which run Arch

Acer Aspire 5 thousand and something.  I got Arch64 running smoothly on it no problems, and absolutely everything works flawlessly.

curana

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2006-04-14

Posts: 97

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

ASUS W1N.
1.5 GHz Centrino
15.4" display
512 MB RAM
60 GB HDD
Everything works at least up to now: WLAN, special keys, display, dvd-rw, USB, webcam, sound, battery.

Not tested: IR, Firewire, external screen
Doesnt work: card reader from ricoh

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blum

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From: Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 77

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Dell Latitude C600
Pentium III Coppermine
256 Mb RAM
15.4'' Displa

A shy machine, but works fine.

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darose

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Registered: 2004-04-13

Posts: 158

Re: Laptops which run Arch

Dell Latitude 600m

Prior to that I had a Dell Latitude LS

Both worked flawlessly with Arch.

The only exception was that with the LS, the driver for the crappy NeoMagic sound card built into it got screwed up in 2.6 kernels, and so the laptop would often freeze on boot.  (Which was REALLY annoying.)  That's not Arch's fault, though, of course.

benmorgan

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-28

Posts: 67

Re: Laptops which run Arch

Toshiba Satellite Pro 6000

Works great! Except for the following:
Reboot hangs
Graphics card doesn't really support OpenGL (or else drivers)
Some occasional video problems

other than that it's great...