Ubuntu Wiki

in Breezy?

in Dapper?

in Edgy ?

in Feisty (Beta)?

Installation works?

Perfect but no WPA for WIFI

Perfect but no WPA for WIFI

Perfect

Perfect

Hardware Information

Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

in Breezy?

in Dapper?

in Edgy?

Screen

Yes

Yes

Yes

Correct resolution?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Correct refresh rate?

Yes

Yes

Yes

3D Acceleration

No only with binary ati

glxinfo says direct-rendering: yes

yes

External monitor works?

Yes with binary ati

Yes, out of box

Yes, out of box

External monitor - mirrors

Yes with binary ati

Yes, but external has to be plugged in after boot

Yes, but external has to be plugged in after boot

External monitor - extend desktop

Yes with binary ati

Untested

Untested

Power Management

Battery detected?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Hibernates?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Sleep

Untested

Yes (Button is gone to activate, hope it comes back soon ;-), screen is distorted after wakeup & Logout Dialogue is displayed. After clicking cancel Screen becomes normal and everything is fine.

Only with binary drivers

Dim monitor on battery

No

Yes

Yes

Blank monitor on inactivity

Yes

Yes

Yes

Lid Close

Screen blanks

Screen blanks

Settings of GnomePowerManager

Cpu frequency scaling

Yes

Yes

Yes

Sound

Sound works?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Correct volume?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Hardware volume switch

Yes

Yes

Yes

Headphone jack

Yes

Yes

Yes

Mic jack

Yes

Yes

Yes

Networking

Wired NIC

Yes

Yes

Yes

Wireless NIC

Yes

Yes

Yes

PCMCIA NIC

PCMCIA works so why not

Untested

Untested

Firewire

Untested but shows up in logs

Untested

Untested

Bluetooth

No Bluetooth

No Bluetooth

No Bluetooth

Modem

Untested

Yes

Yes

Infrared

Wasn't able to activate

Untested

Yes with some tricks

Touchpad & Mice

Touchpad

Yes

Yes

Yes

Touchpad - Doubletap = double click

Yes

Yes

Yes

Touchpad - Scroll down side

Yes

Yes

Yes

External mouse - USB

Yes

Yes

Yes

External mouse - Serial

Untested

Untested

Untested

Docking Station/Port Replicator

AC through replicator

Untested

Untested

Untested

USB

Untested

Untested

Untested

Serial

Untested

Untested

Untested

Parallel

Untested

Untested

Untested

External Monitor - VGA

Untested

Untested

Untested

External Monitor - DVI

Untested

Untested

Untested

Modem

Untested

Untested

Untested

NIC

Untested

Untested

Untested

PS/2

Untested

Untested

Untested

Additional Hardware

Fingerprint reader

Not available

Not available

Not available

CD/DVD drive

CD DVD-R/RW works

CD DVD-R/RW works

CD DVD-R/RW works

PCMCIA cards

Yes

Untested

Untested

Parallel Ports

Yes

Untested

Untested

Card reader(s)

No

No, MS shows up in logs as pcmcia card

No, MS shows up in logs as pcmcia card

Function and other keys

Fn key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Breezy?

in Dapper?

in Edgy?

+ Esc

Sleep

No

Yes with gnome-power-manager started

Yes with gnome-power-manager started

+ F2

Display Battery state

No

No

Yes, with creating a acpi event file and GnomePowerManager

+ F4

Switch external Screen on/off

Untested

No

Untestet

+ F5

Turn on/off Backlit

Yes

Yes

Yes

+ F6

Mute

Yes

Yes

Yes

+ F10

Silent mode

Yes, LED indicates Silent Mode started

Yes, CPU Speed limited to 600MHz and FAN runs slower

Yes, CPU Speed limited to 600MHz and FAN runs slower

+ F11

Numlock on/off

Yes

Yes

Yes

+ F12

In German "Rollen"

No

No

Untested

+ Arrow up

raise Backlit

Yes

Yes

Yes

+ Arrow down

lower Backlit

Yes

Yes

Yes

+ Arrow right

raise Sound

Yes

Yes

Yes

+ Arrow left

lower Sound

Yes

Yes

Yes

Other special keys

Key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Breezy?

in Dapper?

in Edgy?

round "i" button

open Firefox

Yes

Yes

Yes

round "Mail" button

open Mail application

Yes

Yes

Yes

round "checkmark" button

open something

No

No

Configurable

round "wlan" button

turn on/off WLAN

Yes

Yes

Yes