Elive Forum - Laptops testers

IBM ThinkPad 390X (no replies)

Icsolian — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:38:29 -0700

I try elive topaz on livecd in mi old laptop ibm thinkpad 390x
heres specs

Pentium lll at 450 MHz
graphics 2 Mb neomedia
128 Mb RAM PC100

I am using the Elive Live CD Topaz 2.0 on my old computer and the system runs well, in spite of the low frequency processor and 2 megabytes of video card, desktop themes and window management is soft, excuse me English, recognized the old hardware with no problems, pcmcia slots run at 100%, the only thing I did was disable the virtual desktop, but everything else is perfect :), now I write this topic in it XD.

I want install elive but need a pass XD

Lenovo R60 Thinkpad (1 reply)

wirelessjunkie — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:11:24 -0700

Ok, I installed a fresh copy of Elive 2.0 on my new ( to me ) laptop.My laptop specs are as follows:
Intel core 2 Duo t2400 @ 1.8 Ghz
2GC DDR2 PC5300S Ram
60GB HD
Intel945 series video card
Atheros 2413 chip-based cardbus wifi adapter

Pro:
Everything works great so far. Lightning fast. Programs load up quickly, and close quickly. Havent had any hardware issues yet.

Con:
Only gripe is that the laptop freezes up on shutdown. Haven't gotten to the bottom of it yet, but from what I've been reading some other IBM/Lenovo laptop users have been having the same issue.

I'll keep this updated as I learn new things.

Samsung R60 plus (2 replies)

Nitro — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:47:18 -0800

Samsung Laptop R60 plus - Model: NP-R60Y (Windows Vista Premium Pre-Inst)
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2310 @ 1.46GHz
RAM: 4 GB DDR
GRAPHICS: ATI XPress 1250M Shared Memory
AUDIO: IXP ATI SB600 High Definition Audio Controller
WIRELESS: Atheros Communications Inc
LAN: Gigabit Marvell Semiconductor

Elive 1.9.61 Operating System Compatibility and Functionality Test

With all options automated without customising, the installer took + - 15 minutes to do the job.

*ATI Radeon 3D graphics *********************working
*ATI SB600 High Definition Audio Controller **working

After restart asked for root pass for fine tuning step, took + - 25 minutes to do it .

Last restart and ... lshal, lspci, lsusb, lsmod results do not show any unknown device.

All drivers for all the components inside the machine are installed and working properly.

Tony 09/02/2010

Toshiba Satellite 1805-S274 (2 replies)

warmotor — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:46:43 -0800

1.0 (stable) boots/installs/works correctly, but wireless support is sub-par and won't detect either of my Broadcom-based PCMCIA cards.

1.9 (dev) detects the wifi card and connection to the net is a breeze, except now I can only achieve 800x600 resolution. Linux support for the old Trident-based video cards is notoriously bad, but I've yet to come across another distro that supports the appropriate video mode in an older version and somehow manages to break it in a newer one. I should note that OpenGEU has the exact same issue, I suspect it has something to do with the default xorg settings for E17 vs. E16?

Reading some of the other forum entries, it looks like the card may not support 24 bit color. I'll try re-installing 1.9 when I have time and editing the xorg.conf accordingly, and report the results back here.

HP pavilion dv7 (no replies)

Lork Scorguar — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:49:55 -0800

hello
I work with Elive 1.9.51 on my HP pavilion dv7 1060ef and all works great.
I known Elive last year and test it in VirtualBox. I like this distros because is simple, quick and beautiful.
I always install ecomorph to personalize Elive and it's very fine.

Im french user of GNU/Linux

Thanks for this great distros

1.9.51 unstable on an old Acer TravelMate 350T (1 reply)

elpiloto — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:01:47 -0800

Hi,
im testing elive 1.9.51 on an old acer travelmate 345 T (P3 600mhz, ram512mb, wifi broadcom 4318, ess sound card, video 2.5mb trident, 3comMegahertz 10/100 LAN pcmcia card) the system works pretty stable, i only had some freezings time to time

cheers
Hernan

Lenovo S10e (no replies)

Hogge — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:42:53 -0700

Bought this netbook preinstalled with windows. (first windows license i've ever bought... sad)

Installed Elive 1.9.40-compiz from a usb-stick on it without any problems at all.

The flashy window effects actually works better than one would expect, but playing movies fullscreen is not a nice experience. Maybe the graphics card is crap or that xorg needs some tweaking.

During boot, the kernel complains about the video resolution chosen by default, that's prolly easily fixed with a line change in grub config. Haven't done it yet on my own though.

The wifi didn't work out of the box for me. I had to download Broadcom's STA drivers for this to work, and with some hazzle i got it working. Many webpages states that this is a very unstable driver, but i have yet to encounter any problems with it. (btw... there is a shiny button on the keyboard that activates the wifi card it seems... don't forget to push it. =P )

Overall I'm satisfied, but if you really need to play videos on your toy, i suggest looking for another netbook or distro.

Acer Aspire D250 (winxp version) (no replies)

runlevel0 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:36:46 -0700

Model: Acer Aspire D250
Install method: USB Stick using Unetbootin
Version: testing

This is the last model of the Aspire One family featuring a 150 GB hard drive.

Besides an insignificant problem with the installer code (related to where Firefox stores the downloads by default) everything is running out-of-the-box, I was indeed able to use the Wifi during the installation.

The only defect is that the Wifi-led is not working, but I can live without it.

Some notes:
I decided to give Elive a try as I am an E fan and felt curious about this distro (my default choices where Kubuntu, plain vanilla Debian or Gentoo). After finding out that the kernel on the Debian install media does not support the Atheros LAN card (neither it does support the Wifi card) I tried Elive and I was quite impressed to see everything working at the first try.

Please find below the output of lspci and lsusb
lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Device 1062 (rev c0)

lsusb

Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia Pavilion Webcam
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Dell Inspiron 1100 (no replies)

bozzo — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:50:47 -0700

Gotta say elive dressed up the old laptop rather nicely. Installation was pretty much painless. Had a little work to do to get wireless networking going. Graphics was a small problem. Elive wants me to have a 800x600 resolution but I'd much rather use 1024x768. After the install I just had to edit grub where elive passed a vga=788 and change that to vga=792

Every other file I looked at had the correct resolution (1024x768) thought it a bit unusual for the 800x600 to be forced by grub.

Other than those 2 small issues everything else seems to be working out of the box.

G'day,

bozzo

Asus w90vp-A1 (1 reply)

Ferrsai — Thu, 02 May 2013 01:49:11 -0700

I'm waiting for the arrival of this laptop, the Asus w90vp-A1, and I'm looking at switching to a linux based operating system. I've taken a glance at several different distros including Dreamlinux, OpenSuse, Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Kubuntu. I haven't been able to dig up any info involving Linux for any model of the w90vp.

I'm liking what I see with this operating system. It's both different and somewhat familiar. I haven't used Linux before but I feel comfortable with trying a different operating system and I am not a Microsoft fan. I'm curious if anybody here has heard anything about running Linux on this particular laptop, if not I'll probably try it anyway and post my results!

Inspiron 1200 (no replies)

wIL313 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:13:28 -0700

Upon first impression, Elive Gem seems very stable and dependable on Inspiron 1200. On other linux systems this almost outdated computer can be cumbersome and slow (especially on demanding OS's such as Ubuntu). I'm pleased at the speed of Elive with the stability and the eye candy that it has to offer. Though, it does lack in areas such as Ubuntu, where hardware is concerned. The default number of repositories are rather slow, and that can be a problem sometimes for hardware. With this laptop, there seems to be very little control over volume option. Why not take advantage of the built in volume control on there keyboard? Also, I had some trouble to get wireless up and going with this linux os. But once up, the operating system did very well controlling the wireless network. Also, with this laptop, it has always had trouble with wine, but with Elive, wine is running with no problems, and has not frozen up yet.

Over all, this Linux version works very well with this laptop

About system:

Memory 1.56 Gig
Hard drive: 28 Gig
Video Card: None
Processor: 1.3hrz

eeepc1000h (1 reply)

alinuxxx — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:36:01 -0700

Hi, i have just installed elive 1.9.22-compiz on my eeepc.... wonderful !!!...
I two important things to say: first, i'm italian, and the system (and the software i have installed via synaptic) is in english...

SOLVED !! I have installed via USB, using the unelivebootin to prepare the USB key: simply edit /boot/grub/menu.lst in the key and change

"title Special Machine: EeePC

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26.8-elive-686 boot=eli quiet vga=785 eeepc

initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26.8-elive-686"

adding "lang=it" after "quiet vga=785"; must be this way:

"title Special Machine: EeePC

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26.8-elive-686 boot=eli quiet vga=785 eeepc lang=it

initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26.8-elive-686"

Be sure that "vga=785", not "vga=788"

obviously is the same for each language (french is "lang=fr", german is "lang=de" etc).
THEN install the system

Second thing: when you install, you can configure the graphic system: select colour depth to 16, not to 24: your graphic system will be faster, and you surely don't need 24-bit colour.

I don't know how to make this changes on an installed system: dpkg-reconfigure locales and dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't work well. Any idea?

Excuse me for my bad english.

Dell XPS 1730 ...a buggy ride! (no replies)

kizaz13 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:53:12 -0800

Yesterday I loaded Elive and was excited to have a look at the release.

1. First I loaded the LiveCD and noticed I was having some errors with the cursor not quite hitting the mark. I moved a window to the top of my desktop and it 'scrolled' shut and I was unable to figure out for a few seconds that a double click would maximise...and this occured almost every time I moved a window upwards on my desktop...annoying to begin with. Since I have had some errors on LiveCD performance in the past I decided to take the plunge and install...

2. While running the installation I decided to try an upgrade as suggested in the setup process on an installation of Ubuntu which is not my primary OS. It attempted the upgrade but when I rebooted it told me there was compatability problems with the upgrade so I should perform a fresh install. Fine...it had preserved my previous files up to this point...however, when I performed the reinstall I resized the partition and somehow it wiped all of my previous files but preserved the empty folders from the failed install on the original partition. This was strange because my files where nested in the files that where saved? seems pretty much like a bug to me...but I'm not a developer so I'm waiting for feedback.

3. The second fresh install went smoothly but when I rebooted the Xserver seemed to fail. even after it prompted me that it had made adjustments I found many errors and bugs. Sound quit working on boot up after installation and I don't know if this is the default? The cursor problems continue to be an issue. clicking radio buttons will only work if I scroll away from the button as I click.

4. Attempting to play videos freezes my system. I have tried several players as well as installing VLC media player which is usually solid as a rock. I know skins have been buggy with VLC and am not sure if it has something to do with this issue. I will look into the multimedia output settings to verify which the system has chosen by default. When the video freezes I have to wait for several moments after clicking the close for the control to come back to the cursor. What I mean is that when the video freezes I can only effect the video with a click...everywhere else I click brings no result.

5. The eye candy is nice.

Well, I hope my comments assist you developers and users.

I will say that the most annoying thing about the experience was the lack of video performance and the cursor issues. I have had this issue with other distros (ubuntu-studio) in the past but it always seems to correct itself after the first update and reboot...these issues persist.

System- Dell XPS 1730
Core2 2.8Mhz
4 GB Ram
2 x 200 GB HD
2 x Nvidia 8500 SLI
Intel wireless
Broadcom ethernet
Synaptics touchpad

Other OS's
Ubuntu-Studio
LinuxMint 6
Edubuntu

Acer Aspire 1410 - touchpad troubles (no replies)

Capnion — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:22:28 -0800

All went fine with other things except the touch pad. Sometimes freeze and I have to start an application from iBar to restore its full functionality.The two taste don't allow to copy-past in terminal and I haven't still found an alternative solution. It take me some time make the system shut down completely but at the moment it isn't able to restart alone and it freeze a moment before shutting down.

Dell xps 1330 and 1.9.18 (no replies)

revdjenk — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:54:58 -0800

tested as live...

Did not test SD card slot, but all other hardware (cam, media buttons, sound) work EXCEPT 4965 intel wifi... :(

and it has been a while since .5 on my Averatec 3270!

Nice changes! Good looking and speedy as I remember.

could not use the iso under virtualbox for some reason...boot just ends with blank, black screen...and debug session just crashes and closes...so can't give you report of reason.

God Bless
Doug

eee pc 901 (no replies)

paris — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:32:01 -0700

I installed 1.8.8 to a sdhc card. Elive boots fine but grub(on card) needed editing to boot the built in xandros. The uuids just did not work for me.

The silver buttons at top do not work. screen dim/bright works - volume up/down does not. suspend/sleep does not work on wakeup.

Wireless is finicky at best. It seems to need to be enabled in bios and can not remember the network password for my router. The connection will fail more often than not with the icon showing the message "Waiting for Network Key for the wireless network"

No trouble with with the wired network

I can not figure out how to browse samba.

While booting I get just a plain console, not the pretty transparent background seen when the cd boots.

Hp pavilion ze4420us All perfect! wow (no replies)

davidcc6 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:28:26 -0700

I have installed Elive Gem, on my laptop pavilion 4420us, and almost all work perfect.

the olny thing are the quick buttons of the keyboard

Im too happy using elive, !elive is art!

:X :X :X :X for elive

ECS G733 (no replies)

sirtuxalot — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:16:17 -0700

I just found my new laptop Linux Distro, I have a ECS (Elitegroup) G733 with:

Intel P4 3.0B Ghz 512K 533 FSB S478
512 MB PC2700 CL2.5 SODIMM
15" XGA LCD using up to 64 MB shared memory
80 GB HDD 5400 rpm (currently sporting 40 GB drive)
DVD-RW combo drive

The screen looks great using the "night" theme and everything works right from install. It looks like I will be learning the ins/outs of Debian now to add to my Gentoo/Slackware/Red Hat knowledge. Thanks for a great distro.

Dell Latitude D830 (no replies)

jamesm — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:24:02 -0700

Booted up with Elive Gem+ (development) 20080527 version on my Dell Latitude D830 laptop with the Elive image burnt to an Asda-brand DVD-R and everything worked that I've tested.

Nice screen resolution, audio is fine, wireless (54G network) and wired networks are connected to fine. NTFS partition mounted and used in read-only and read+write mode working fine.

To connect to my 54G wireless network I simply need to select the connection mode of "Managed" before clicking Apply.

It would be nice to auto-connect to the nearest wireless network. If this was implemented then the livecd mode would be perfect and not require ANY post-boot configuring. My wireless router is using MAC-filtering so the wireless encryption is disabled.

I use Elive in livecd mode on this laptop because it is a work laptop and I'm not permitted to use it for personal use. This way I can use the laptop's hardware, avoid the OS on the HD (Windows XP Pro) and their Win32 auditing program is useless!

:D

Cheers

James

sony vaio pcg-fr77g/b (no replies)

trojan — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:11:13 -0700

work all fine!!!!
video xga 1024x768 ati radeon igp 345m
cpu p4
1gb ram
elive rocks!!!!!!

MSI vr321x (no replies)

cheshirsky — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:37:26 -0700

Hi!
got this little cute laptop.
(VIA C-7 CPU, VIA Chrome 9 IG VGA, Atheros 5006 WLAN)
as I wrote in other theme, I hardinstalled e-live 1.7 development. ;)
all just fine, but my VIA Chrome 9 card...
just can`t get enough time for properly install or build driver for it.
Atheros card works fine with ndiswrapper(couldn`t get it work with madwifi) :) Atheros just works fine! at new kernel trouble with my card is solved and it works with native drivers(also with ndiswrapper I noticed hard load on system with working wlan).

can't solve problem with VIA chrome 9 card... maybe just no driver (VN896 chip)...

Acer Aspire 9300 (no replies)

avatar1349 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:25:54 -0700

Installing ELive on a Acer Aspire 9300, all went smooth UNTIL....

I had to choose the resolution (1400x990)
has a videocard onboard (NVidia 6100)

After that, I waited but the screen stayed black.

Anyone had a similar problem?
(Or am I just impatient?)

Dell Latitude X1 (1 reply)

d_MatthewS_b — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:34:30 -0700

I have a Dell Latitude X1 and I am having some problems loading the eLive stable version onto it (which I did purchase). I'm new to linux (just starting toying w/it a little over 3-4 mo ago) and it's different. I've done the ubuntu, redhat, suse, thing but I really like the eLive interface. I've even loaded a couple versions of the Hackintosh Leopard OS on it. However when I load the Stable CD, I get an error, that seems to be related to not recognizing the CD-Rom or mini-HD. If I get it to actually load, I get into a command prompt issue that I'm not able to figure out. I never get the actual GUI interface to log in. It's always cmd line login. If I get it loaded to a prompt, I don't know how to install it from command lines. Again, I really am not familiar w/linux, so I'm looking for an easy how to, install from command line or interface that works. It uses Dell's propriatory powered USB interface. I tried an external CD Rom w/an IDE to USB interface, and had the same problem. Not sure if it's a HD problem, or a CD Rom problem. The X1 uses a mini-HD which is somewhat different than the standard laptop IDE. Either way, I can't get it to work. Some input or help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

TOSHIBA 4020CDT (no replies)

jasont — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:05:52 -0800

Toshiba 4020CDT

Processor

* Intel Mobile Pentium II processor
* 300MHz (1.6V) clock speed
* Integrated co-processor
* 32KB internal cache
* Integrated 512KB pipelined burst SRAM Level 2 cache
* Data/Address Bus Width: 64-bit/32-bit
* 66MHz Front Side Bus

Memory

* 64MB standard, expandable to 160MB
* 64Mbit Synchronous DRAM, 3.3V, 60ns
* Internal memory expansion slot (ships populated with memory module)

BIOS

* APM V1.2; ACPI V1.0; PnP V1.0a; VESA V2.0; DPMS; DDC2B; DMI 2.0, PCI BIOS

System Architecture

* PCI Bus V2.1: Intel 440BX system chipset

Disk Drives

* 6.4 giga byte Enhanced IDE, 2.5" Hard disk
* Service -removable
* 12.7 mm height
* 13ms average access time
* Supports PIO Mode 4 or Ultra DMA 33 mode 2
* Diskette Drive:
* Built-in 3.5", 1.44MB

CD-ROM

* Built-in 24X max. speed CD-ROM
* 130ms average access time
* 3,600KB/s average data transfer rate

Display System

* 13.3" diagonal
* TFT Active Matrix color display up to 16 million colors at 1024x768 resolution
* External Color Support:
* 800 x 600 and 640 x 480; 85Hz Non-Interlaced @ 64K; 60Hz Non-Interlaced @ 16M
* 1024 x 768; 60Hz Non-Interlaced @ 64K
* 1280 x 1024; 60Hz Non-Interlaced @ 256

Video

* Chips & Technologies HiQVideo 65555 Graphics Controller
* 64-bit Graphics Accelerator
* 32-BIT PCI local bus support
* BitBLT hardware
* 2MB EDO DRAM Video Memory

Keyboard

* Full sized 84 keys with 12 function keys
* 3mm pitch
* Dedicated Windows keys
* Integrated AccuPoint pointing device

Expansion

* Two PC Card slots support two Type II or one Type III PC Cards; 32-bit CardBus ready
* SVGA video port
* Fast infrared port (4MBps, IrDA V1.1 compliant)
* PS/2 mouse/keyboard port (Y-connector supported)
* Universal Serial Bus port
* ECP parallel port
* High speed serial port (16550 UART compatible)
* Headphone
* External microphone (monaural)
* Line-in

Communications

* 3Com-Noteworthy 56K PC Card modem with V.90 support

Audio

* Yamaha 3D sound effect-enabled, OPL3-SA3 and software-enabled Wavetable synthesis sound
* 16-bit stereo, .WAV and Sound Blaster Pro compatible, MIDI playback
* 2 built-in stereo speakers
* Full duplex sound
* Microphone, headphone and Line-in ports

Security

* Power-on password (2-level password support)
* HDD access password
* Cable lock slot

Power Management

* Rechargeable, removable Lithium Ion battery (10.8V, 4,000mAh)
* 2.5 + hours battery life
* 2.5+ hours recharge time
* ACPI V1.0 support

Power Supply

* 45W Autosensing External AC Adapter
* 100-240V input voltage
* 50-60Hz frequency
* 4.9"L x 1.0"H x 2.9"W, .75 lbs

Dimensions ~11.9" x 9.4" x 2.1"
Weight ~ 6.7 lbs

-----------------------------------------

HD installation: works 100%

Issues: Display only using 800x600 instead of full screen.

Fix: Edit xorg.conf.elive
edit to the following for full screen:

Section "Screen"

Identifier "Screen0"

Device "Card0"

Monitor "Generic Monitor"

DefaultDepth 16

SubSection "Display"

Depth 16

Modes "1024x768"

EndSubSection

EndSection

IBM A21e ThinkPad (1 reply)

paxlex — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:37:48 -0700

NOTEBOOK: IBM A21e;
processor: INTEL CELERON (128Kb);
ram: 128 Mb;
disc: CD;
h.d.: 10GB (2Gb Win, 8Gb eLive);
video: ATI RAGE 16Mb;
display: 15' TFT;
modem: LUCENT MODEM WIN;
audio: CRYSTAL SOUNDFUSION;
lan: INTEL(R) PRO/100;
usb: 1 port, 1.1;
pcmcia: TEXAS INSTRUMENT, 2 slots;
parallel: 1 port LPT;
serial: 1 port COM;
battery: Lithium-Ion Battery;
mouse: TRACKPOINT.

Other:
Scanner: Epson perfection 1650 (usb);
Phone: Nokia 5200 (usb);
Wireless: Palladio Wave54 Digicom (pcmcia);
Printer: HP desk 5650 (usb).

All equipment has been recognized. The wireless card and the modem worked immediately. I downloaded via ethernet (ADSL) gnomeppp to use the phone (GPRS) because the program was not.

Acer Aspire 5550 Laptop! (1 reply)

FreeEagle — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:25:47 -0800

Everything went well... all the Hardware run great under Elive GEM... Even Wifi.

FreeEagle

Full Support for the Hardware

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo L7310GW (no replies)

sintagm — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:14:14 -0800

I successfully installed Elive 1.0 on my laptop, and now everything works fine.

I only had a small problem: black screen when running the cd in live mode, before installing. This was due to bad xorg.conf.

How to solve this issue:

1) Open a console with ctrl+alt+f1 and log in as eliveuser, with the password elive;

2) Type dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and follow the steps. Be sure to answer yes to the question related to the automatic detection of the video card! And when choosing the resolutions, add even 1280x800 (which is the best for this laptop).

3) Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf (for example typing: nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf) adding the following string at the end of the "Device" block:
Option "VBEModes" "True"

4) Switch to the graphical mode display (ctrl+alt+f9), which will obviousely be black at moment, and press ctrl+alt+backspace. If everything worked fine you'll see the login screen.

If you were wondering, Elive automatically detects everything, including the wifi adapter.

P.S.: I apologize for my english.

Compaq Evo N1050v (no replies)

rudikuin — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:59:43 -0800

I have a Compaq Evo N1050v laptop running Elive GEM 1.0

No problems running it, only when I want to alter the volume I get some odd warning/error on opening ALSA, something not to worry about, because it works anyway...

The WiFi was set up with WiFi-wiz, and now runs effortlessly.

Only thing is boot-time, keeps taking too long for me, about two to three minutes, but that was the same with other distro's I tried before. But this one (being Elive) is here to stay.
;)

I just love the look and feel of it.
To me as a MAC-user, Elive is the best choice...

Ruud Kuin

Toshiba A35-S209 (no replies)

MacUser — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:10:22 -0700

Not sure if this helps at all, but I had experimented with the Elive Revolution DVD that came in a Linux Pro mag(could have been Linux Format, I don't remember). Everything worked great, except for the touchpad mouse. It moved so slow that it was not usable. This may have been fixed in the newer release, but I no longer own the machine, therefore I cannot confirm this. Also, the media hotkeys were unusable(As with every other distro that saw this machine)

Hope this helps someone.

Compaq V3117la (1 reply)

babel — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:51:07 -0800

Wireless not detected by default but it works when u install the driver with ndiswrapper.
The screen seems ok, the nvidia drivers work.
The only problem i found was the sound. I have to reconfigure the ALSA every time i start elive. I have buttons to control the alsa mixer (turn it up or down, and mute) and these buttons just don't work. If i connect headphones or mics they don't work, might be a problem with the entire chip.