HardwareSupportMachinesLaptopsCompaq
Notes on installation and compatibility of Ubuntu with Compaq laptop computers.
Summary
Make |
Model |
Install ? |
Not works ? |
Comments |
Ubuntu Release |
Date |
Compaq |
Armada E500 |
Yes |
irda |
Partial tvout, 3d accel. and IRDA not tested yet |
Warty |
|
Compaq |
Armada E500 |
Yes |
Modem, TV out, irda, acpi |
Modem not tested |
Warty |
|
Compaq |
Armada M700 |
Yes |
|
Modem not tested, resume/suspend works once HoaryPM is configured |
Warty |
|
Compaq |
Evo N1015v |
Yes |
|
Modem and TV out not tested |
Hoary |
2005-09-11 |
Compaq |
Evo N400c |
Yes |
|
Modem and irda not tested |
|
|
Compaq |
Evo N600c |
Yes |
|
resume/suspend (needs kernel 2.6.9). Modem and irda not tested |
|
|
Compaq |
Evo N800c |
Yes |
|
Modem, DVD/CDRW and multimedia keys not tested |
|
|
Compaq |
nx7010 |
Yes |
Suspend/sleep, even if apm=on is set in GRUB. |
IrDA, firewire not tested. Modem works with sl-modem ; wifi ok!. dual-screen support and S-Video Output need ATI binary drivers. |
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Compaq |
Presario 305 |
Yes |
|
Details below |
|
|
Compaq |
Presario 701 EA |
Yes |
|
DMA on hdc can safely be enabled for e.g. DVD use |
Hoary |
2005-04-19 |
Compaq |
Presario 730 AP |
Yes |
|
Modification for ACPI (The grub boot paremeter acpi=on needs to be added). The monitor is identified as Generic this affects the display of fonts. |
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|
Compaq |
Presario 705 EA |
Yes |
|
Everything works pretty well. See below for details. |
Hoary |
2005-07-04 |
Compaq |
Presario 1700T |
Yes |
acpi, powerdown, lan is intermittent (was on windows, too) modem untested |
everything else works beautifully and has for 2 months |
Hoary |
2005-07-15 |
Compaq |
Presario 1896-XL |
Yes |
acpi (not yet tried modifying GRUB with acpi=force) & powerdown |
usb and dvd drive not tested |
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|
Compaq |
Presatio 2104EA |
Yes |
Video card 3d acceleration (only available under xorg v 6.8 and later), ACPI battery info not working properly (bug lodged) |
|
|
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Compaq |
Presario 2144EA |
Yes |
|
everything works, even ACPI (modem not tested) |
Hoary |
2005-04-22 |
Compaq |
Presario 2173EA |
Yes |
ACPI battery info not working properly ; hibernate not working |
modem not tested |
Hoary |
2005-05-15 |
Compaq |
Presario 2180CA |
Yes |
|
Must pass noapm to the kernel on boot to enable the button that disables the mousepad. Modem was not tested. |
Hoary |
2005-05-11 |
Compaq |
Presario 2800 |
Yes |
|
Details below |
Hoary, Warty |
|
Compaq |
Presario R3000/R3205 |
|
Details below |
|
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Compaq |
x1000 |
Yes |
suspend |
Modem not tested |
Hoary |
|
Compaq |
nx9105 |
Yes |
|
Everything works (som hack needed for the modem and the alps touchpad) |
Hoary |
2005-04-21 |
Compaq |
Presario 2190CA |
Yes |
Modem, Brigtness |
Untested TVout (no cable) |
Hoary |
2005-21-04 |
Compaq |
Presario V2000 |
Yes |
|
Everything worked on install except wireless. Details below. |
Hoary |
2005-2-06 |
Details
Compaq Presario 305
- Known to work: video card, sound card, USB, touchpad, expansion base unit.
Not out of the box: ACPI (need to use APM instead - see [http://barnski-linux.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_barnski-linux_archive.html#110353334244922101] here for more details), multimedia keys, resume/suspend (even using APM).
- Untried: Modem, irda.
Compaq Presario 705 EA
- Known to work: Video card, sound card, USB, touchpad, all other ports.
- Not out of the box: Scrolling button below touchpad. Problems with ethernet.
- Untried: Modem, wireless (PCMCIA).
Compaq Presario 2800
- Known to work: video, sound, wired networking, touchpad, ACPI, DVD, CDRW
Not out of the box: wireless networking (see InstallingCompaqW200)
- Untried: modem, parallell, s-video, binary ATI drivers, pcmcia
Compaq Presario R3000/R3205
- Install with "linux noapic". Works out of the box except:
Touchpad configured by following all steps in the SynapticsTouchpadHowto including comments.
Wireless chipset is from broadcom. It is possible, with some work, to use this chipset under linux with AMD64! See [http://www.runithard.com/HOWTO-BCOM64WIRELESS/]. It seems to be a good howto. I (ArthurPeters) have experienced some crashes, but it is quite usable. For i386, s more complete discussion is here: [http://cmb.phys.cwru.edu/kisner/linux/compaq-r3000/]
- Untried: Modem, irda, possible more.
Compaq Presario V2000
- Used ndiswrapper to install WinXP drivers. Went to Network Settings, manually entered ESSID, set to static IP address, entered IP address and Gateway address. My router is linksys. My wireless is broadcom.
From WillemMeints Tue Apr 19 08:53:26 +0100 2005 From: Willem Meints Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:53:26 +0100 Subject: Compaq Presario 2137EA Message-ID: <20050419085326+0100@https://www.ubuntulinux.org>
All works, use the fgrlx driver for X.org (you can download and install it afterwards using sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx) Add acpi=force as kernel parameter in grub to support ACPI. The battery monitor is acting a little weird in my installation, maybe some bug. Though acpi -V on the console works fine.
Compaq Evo N1015v
- Standard Hoary install work ok.
- Video, Sound, USB, PCMCIA, Ethernet and Touchpad all work.
- X driver is detected as ati but can also use radeon (Chipset is Radeon IGP 320M)
- Syspend doesn't seem to work but I havn't tried fixing it.
- CPU frequency adjustment works.