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Dell

Dell

Dimension C521

AMD Athlon 64 3200

Integrated nVidia nForce 6150LE

Integrated Sigma Tel 9227

Integrated nVidia 10/100

7.04 (Kubuntu)

Installs and boots with kernel options noapic acpi=off. Must use USB hub for keyboard and mouse

2007-04-30

Dell

Dimension 2350

P4

Integrated Intel Graphics Controller

SoundMax Integrated Audio

Broadcom 440x 10/100 Ethernet

9.10 (Karmic)

See notes.

2010-03-03

Dell

Dimension 3100 (E310)

P4

Intel Corp. 82915G Express.

Intel Corp. 82801FB (ICH6)

Intel e100 Family

v5.10 (Breezy), 7.10 x86_64

Everything works in 7.10, 5.10: No PS2 ports, USB only, and USB controller is not supported in Linux kernel 2.6.12 (ie. 24-Nov-2008Breezy). For determined people, see InstallingBreezyOnaDellDimension3100

Dell

Dimension 4550

P4

ATI Radeon 9500 Pro

SoundMax Integrated Audio

Intel Pro/100 VE

v4.10

Dell

Dimension 4600

P4

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

SoundMax Integrated Audio

Intel Pro/100 VE

v4.10

Dell

Dimension 4600

P4

nVidia GeForce FX 5200

Intel AC'97 Integrated Audio

Intel Pro/100 VE

v4.10

Dell

Dimension 5000

P4

ATI Radeon X300

Integrated

Broadcom BCM4401 100Base-T

Pre-v5.04 (Hoary)

3D acceleration, ATI's flgrx drivers doesn't affect OpenGL (?) but X is much slower with them. "Dell Wireless 1450 Wireless USB Adapter" not working at all (optional device). Microphone and digital video untested

Dell

Dimension 8400

P4 630

ATI Radeon X300(SE)

Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS / Analog Devices SoundMAX Digital Audio

Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet

v6.10 Edgy Eft

100% working

Dell

Dimension 8400

P4 630

ATI Radeon X850XT PE

Analog Devices SoundMAX Digital Audio

Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet

v7.04 Feisty Fawn

32-bit version working ; 64-bit gets kernel panic error (P4 630 supports EM64T)

2007-03-07

Dell

Dimension 9150

P4

nVidia GeForce 6800

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi

...

7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, 8.04 Hardy Heron

7.10: Ran on single hard drive, graphics card fully working after restricted drivers installed. Sound working after downloading drivers from here. 8.04: Sucessfully used on RAID 0 array after a bit of work, using instructions from here. The Creative X-fi drivers don't install under Hardy, so instructions found here were used and sound was acheived. Graphics working fully after restricted drivers installed. Built in CD and DVD drives are functional and 13-in-1 card reader works. Both: Live CD's caused the monitor to return an "out of range" error, but can be used when booted into safe graphics mode.

2008-05-28

Dell

Dimension XPS T600r

P3

nVidia GeForce FX 5200

Turtle Beach Montego II

3Com 3c905c-tx

v4.10

Dell

Optiplex GX1

P2

ATI 3D Rage Pro

Aureal Vortex 1 (au8820)

3c905B

v4.10

Dell

Optiplex GX1

P3

ATI 3D rage pro agp 1x/2x

Crystal CS4236B

3c905b 100 BASETX (Cyclone)

6.06, 6.10 and 7.04

For the sound: Look here or here and follow the instructions. Internet is not tested, but normally it works.

2007-05-28

Dell

Optiplex GX150

P3

Intel Corporation 82815 CGC

Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio

3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]

v6.10 (Edgy)

Not working with v6.06, no idea why.

Dell

Optiplex GX240

P4

nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)

Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 12)

3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)

v9.10 "karmic"

Works out of the box, however 800x600 only. Used an xorg.conf from a 7.10 liveCD to achieve more resolutions (i.e. 1024x768 to 1280x1024)

03-Jan-2010

Dell

Optiplex GX260

P4

nVidia NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro]

Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4)

3c905B 100BaseTX / Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet

v4.10

Second Display will clone only

24-Nov-2008

Dell

Optiplex GX260

P4

Intel Corp. 82845G/GL/GE

Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)

3Com 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) / Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet

8.04 server 8.10 server v8.10

X crash after login (on gdm), invalid display for linux console on boot if Video MEM != 8MB in BIOS Ubuntu Server : 8.04 and 8.10 both work flawless

24-Feb-2009

Dell

Optiplex GX270

P4

Intel Corp. 82865G (rev 02)

Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) (rev 02)

Intel Corp. 82540EM (rev 02)

10.04 Lucid (32-bit)

No problems so far. Mic untested

5th July 2010

Dell

Optiplex GX280

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz stepping 03

Integrated Intel Corp. 82915G/GV/910GL rev 4

Integrated ICH6

Integrated Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express

10.04 Lucid (64-bit)

Easy install, no compatibility issues, Cheap hardware, Plenty Fast

October 26th, 2010

Dell

Optiplex 320

Celeron

Ati X1100

SoundMax Integrated Audio

Broadcom 440x 10/100 Ethernet

7.10 x86_64

When I boot the live CD of Gutsy I received the opening menu with several boot/install options, but when I make my selection the computer basically locks. Here is the exact error for that liveCD boot attempt: [ 42.485593] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 0000:00:14.0 There are three PCI slots, and all three are empty. the 64-Bit displays the same message But it continues to boot i get throught the Entire install and the Computer restarts displays the gnome boot loader and locks up

2008-04-05

Dell

Optiplex 755

Intel Core2 Duo E7200

ATI RV710 Radeon HD 4350

Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)

Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 (rev 02)

12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) (64-bit)

No problems. Everything worked automatically.

28 June 2012

Dell

Precision 670

Dual Xeon

v5.10/64 (Breezy)

Dell

Precision 530

2Ghz Xeon (80532, 2.0G, 512K, 400FSB, SOCKET F)

ATI Radeon 7000 32MB AGP DVI Dual Display

AC97, SoundBlaster emulation; Analog Devices AD1885 AC97 Codec

integrated 3C920-based 10/100 3Com® Ethernet controller with Remote Wake Up capabilities (3C905C-TX compatible)

v6.06, v6.10

Dell

Studio Desktop 540S

Intel® Core 2 Quad-core Q8200

ATI Radeon HD 3450 de 256 Mo

Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller

Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller

8.10 x86_64 (intrepid)

this hardware works perfectly, except for the audio controller. I had to add this line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base and reboot : options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1

2009-02-26

Dell

XPS 400

Pentium D Dual Core

nVidia GeForce 7600 GS

Intel® 7.1 channel High Definition Audio

Intel(R) PRO/1000 PL Network Connection

7.10

Everything works except: To use dual monitors had to install the proprietary nVidia drivers (install was automatic once I told it to, very nice). Two Samsung SyncMaster 205BWs, had to edit the xorg.conf manually to use the native 1680x1050 resultion of the monitors even though the model was listed and selected. I was using a Linksys RV016 so I had to disable window_scaling: /etc/sysctl.conf -> net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0

2008-01-10