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Notes on installation and compatibility of Ubuntu with Samsung laptop computers.

Summary

Make

Model

Installs ?

Not working

Ubuntu Release

Comments

Last Updated

Samsung

P10

Yes

Suspend to RAM

?

Installation is no problem. Didn't test the built-in modem as I do not need it.

2006-Sep-12

Samsung

R50

?

?

see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/SamsungR50

?

|| Samsung || X15 || Yes || battery indicator, function keys (brightness, volume, battery indicator) || ? || Basically works out of the box. Video, audio, touchpad all fine, USB mouse works too. Wireless LAN needs ndiswrapper. Haven't tested PCMCIA, modem, external monitor, or suspend yet.

Samsung

X20

Yes

Sony Memory Stick

v.6.06 (Dapper) v6.10 (Edgy)

Tested on X20 1600 III, complete Intel Chipset, see http://x20.erdballer.net for more Informations and Resources

2007-Jan-02

Packard Bell

Easynote R3450

Yes

v5.10 (Breezy)

Needs boot parameter: vga=771 noapic, otherwise doesn't boot. Modem untested. cpu is AMD Mobile Turion 64 model ML-30 - 1.6 GHz

2006-Aug-07

Packard Bell

Easynote R3280

Yes

In process

v5.10 (Breezy)

Needs boot parameter: vga=771 noapic, otherwise doesn't boot. cpu is AMD Mobile Turion 64 model ML-28 - 1.6 GHz

2006-Feb-08

Packard Bell

Easynote 3300

Yes

(Warty)

Needs nolapic boot parameter, otherwise doesn't boot. Modem untested. Additional info: chipset is sis740, cpu is AMD XP-M 2600+

Packard Bell

Easynote A series

Yes

Centrino Wireless

Only issue so far is the Centrino Wireless: hardware shows up fine but HWaddr is 00:00:00:00:00:00, hence I can't set it in my router's MAC filtering.

Packard Bell

Easynote M5262

Yes

Details below.

2005-Dec-21

Packard Bell

Easynote A5560

Yes

Resume with ndiswrapper.

v5.04 (Hoary)

Celeron M. Linksys wireless. Details below.

2005-Aug-18

Your Samsung Laptop Specifications

Type

Info

Breezy

Dapper

Edgy

CPU

Intel, AMD, ...?

Yes

Yes

RAM

Amount of RAM

-

-

-

HDD

Amount of GB

Yes

Yes

Yes

Optical

Type of Optical Device

Yes

Yes

Yes

Display

Describe your screen

Yes

Yes

Yes

Video

Which video card?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Ethernet

Your ethernet card

No

Yes

Yes

Wifi

Your WiFi Chipset

untested

Yes

Yes

Firewire

installed? which type?

untested

Yes

Yes

Modem

the type and name of the modem

untested

Yes

No

Audio

Audio chipset

Yes

Yes

Yes

Master card kernel

Master card kerndel

Yes

Yes

Yes

USB

Specify your USB Controller

Yes

Yes

Yes

USB

Specify your second USB Controller

Yes

Yes

Breezy notes Anchor(breezynic)

  • Breezy will by default detect the wrong tulip module as the network card module. remove this module rmmod tulipdownload the uli526x module from http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=83710&page=2 (second post on second page). Follow the details in the post to get the module unpacked and installed properly.

Dapper notes

  • Dapper Livecd will only boot with the boot parameters noapic nolapic acpi=off

  • Dapper Livecd Installation crashes during finalizing installation stage prior to configuring grub leaving a unusable system.

Anchor(dapperusb2)

  • Plugging in USB devices will "freeze" the system. Unplug usb device and the system will become available again after 30 seconds. Advice: blacklist the echi-hcd module. This is the usb2 module which causes all the trouble. USB1.1 is the only way to go if you're set on using Dapper.

Anchor(dapper8254)

  • Dapper kernel 2.6.15-(all versions) have issues with the ATI chipsets. Kernel will say "8254 timer not connected on IO-APIC". This is a known kernel issue for the 2.6.15 range. It's fixed in 2.6.16 (requires manual building) and 2.6.17 (Ubuntu Edgy). workarround: boot with boot parameters noapic nolapic acpi=off.

  • Installation advise: Install Breezy and upgrade to Dapper, it's the only way to get it working.

Replace the following example with additional Informations to your Samsung device

Packard Bell Easynote M5262

  • Generally a smooth install and good user experience: ethernet connection, DVD drive, etc, all good
  • Touchpad and USB mouse work fine in tandem
  • Not yet got built in card reader working
  • Problems linking external monitor (but also in WinXP)
  • Problems linking digital camera (Fuji Finepix 1400) but may be camera issue
  • After booting, X sometimes displays a blank white screen and needs to be restarted with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to access GDM

CategoryLaptop

Samsung GT9000 Series

This laptop is quite old now but Breezy installed just fine. Runs very slow with the standard RAM but an upgrade sorts this out.

Touchpad (including the scroll buttons), screen, Intel i830 AGP graphics, USB, LAN, audio all works fine with no special configuration needed. No wireless built in but PCMCIA worked right away too and I am successfully using a Draytek 802.11b wireless card. Haven't tested the built-in modem as I have no use for it. Suspend to hard drive works.

Battery indicator works 95% of the time but I have seen it tell me I am running on battery power sometimes when the laptop is actually plugged in. It'll popup a message saying you're about to run out of power but nothing happens. Haven't tested an external monitor.