What computers have people installed Mint on.

OzTracker · Post by **OzTracker** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:34 pm

Installed on my Dell 700m laptop (512Mb RAM & integrated graphics) with no problems at all

lukeen · Post by **lukeen** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:24 am

my laptop's more than 2 years old now.
acer aspire laptop with 1,5 ghz centrino, ati 9700, 512mb ram ...
everything working perfect!
i had to add 2 little files to make card-reader and w-lan-led working.
3d-desktop without problems.

Post by **clem** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:58 am

- Sony Vaio T2XP (512MB RAM, 1Ghz), not only runs Linux Mint but builds it as well

--> Only problems: Volume Up/Down and multimedia buttons and Sony Memory Stick Pro reader don't work. ACPI hibernation (don't like it..) and Video-Out (don't need it) not tested.

--> Pros:
- Best laptop I ever had...
- 10.6", don't need a table to use it...
- I don't know, I just love it

--> Cons:
- Expensive
- Can't use it in bed without a book under it.. (the quilt kinda obstructs the little fan aeration stuff which is located too low on the side... that's a bit silly).. it gets too hot otherwise (I suppose you can use it to warm the bed but still... although prices are dropping you'll get a hot water bottle for less than that).

Clem

bigdee · Post by **bigdee** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:25 am

Bianca is running sweetly on a self built desktop with a Sempron 2.8, Asus motherboard and 512 ram. No major problems at all and the those that I had were soon resolved by reference to the kind experts on this forum. Windows XP runs pretty slowly under VirtualBox so I am hoping to persuade my wife that a nice 1 Gb stick of Sdram is absolutely essential.

Boo · Post by **Boo** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:07 pm

dell inspiron laptop 1G RAM 1.6GHz, sweet.
AMD Athlon 2500+ 1G RAM, 2 HDs, 3OSs, AGP Gforce 6600GT. sweet.
Intel 1.1GHz celeron, 392MB RAM, Gforce MX440. video clunky.
and next my Fathers he he he.

sanguinemoon · Post by **sanguinemoon** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 2:41 am

Glad to hear that worked for you. You can get the Windows drivers to work on other distros, but Mint makes it easier

To answer the original question...well it started off as an eMachines something or other, but I've replaced every piece in it, so it no longer even looks the same

But with all the hardware changes, from going from the integrated graphics on the original MB, replacing the integrated soundcard, etc I've yet to have a hardware compatibility problem with Mint or any other distro.

But I've had some issues with Doors Visa or whatever that other thing is called

(Seriously. Not Microsoft's fault, really but I was using a friend's 2-3 year old ATI card for short time and Beta testing Vista. ATI decided to not have Vista driver for it

People use hardware support as a strawman against Linux, but with Vista, I think the situation is about to reverse itself)

ido · Post by **ido** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:22 am

I installed Mint in my Toshiba Satellite A65-S1066 laptop, 512 Ram, 60 g. Everything works just fine.

revmc · Post by **revmc** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:36 pm

I have it installed on a Dell Precision M60, 1G ram, 60G HD,
Bcm4309 wireless works with ndiswrapper.
Lexmark X1150 printer works with z600 driver
HP C5180 All-in-One connected with LAN from wife's computer
Wife's Dell dimension 2400 with MS XP Home is sharing files through Samba.

Everything works, with the exception of midi in Firefox. It is sporactic.

Lolo Uila · Post by **Lolo Uila** » Thu May 17, 2007 11:07 pm

Homemade "test" system I built from spare parts to try and learn about Linux. Currently running Bianca.

EDIT: Now running Cassandra with XGL and the ATI fglrx driver. Nice!

Antec Aria Micro-ATX case w/300W PSU and integrated card reader
Intel D865GLCLK motherboard (865/ICH5)
Intel P4 2.4/533 CPU
1GB PC3200 (DDR400) RAM
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (128MB)
On-board sound and Gigabit NIC
IDE1: Quantum 30GB Primary Master (hda1: boot-home/swap)
IDE2: Sony DVD burner Secondary Master
SATA1: 20GB SATA formatted FAT32 (or NTFS depending on my mood)
SATA2: Maxtor 100GB IDE with a bridge adapter (formatted ext3)
Logitech cordless keyboard & mouse
Acer AL2032W 20" wide screen LCD @ 1680x1050 resolution

Everything works including the card reader on the Aria case. I even experimented with the burner on the SATA port with the bridge adapter and it still worked fine.

Biggest issue was the Radeon 9700 Pro card which had problems with the default xorg driver. I got frequent hard locks when running the default open-source ATI driver. Didn't have this problem with some of the other distros I tried. I've also noticed the screen savers run much slower and even look different under Mint. Not sure what's up with that. After loading the current ATI proprietary 8.36.5 driver the system is pretty stable. EDIT: Works even better with XGL!

Network speed in and out of the Linux Mint box is slower than between my Windows machines. Linux says I have a gigabit connection, but I think it's running at 100 speed. Still, it connects and shares with my Windows boxes with minimal effort, which is more than I can say for some of the other distros I've tried.

Lolo Uila · Post by **Lolo Uila** » Thu May 17, 2007 11:09 pm

I booted the Cassandra beta on a Sony VGN-C250N notebook and it ran great. Sony's 1280x800 LCD came up at the correct rez, and the networking seemed to be working (although I didn't test it thoroughly). The trackpad was fully functional, including functions like swiping up and down the side to scroll. Beryl ran great on the Sony.

I also tried it briefly on a Sony VGN-TXN15 and it seemd to run fine there as well. Didn't test all functions on the TXN, but Beryl ran nicely.

Toontwnca · Post by **Toontwnca** » Thu May 31, 2007 11:52 pm

I have Mint on a Acer Aspire 5050 notebook.

1.6ghz AMD Turion64 x2 cpu.
8O gig Hitachi hd.
ATI Radeon xPress 1100 graphics.
Pioneer DVD burner.
Atheros 5005G wireless adapter.
Some sort of ATI sound; according to lspci.
ENE cardbus reader.

Everything worked right of on Cassandra.
Only glitch now is no sound on speakers
after kernel update. Will have to research that one.

gman · Post by **gman** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:39 am

Gateway MT6705: 1.6 GHz Pentium Dual Core; 1 GB RAM; 120 GB Sata; Intel Graphics 950; RealTek 8187 Chipset for wireless; 5 in 1 card reader; DVD-+RW; 1200x800 display;

Without updates everything worked with 3.0 except the card reader. After updating HAL the card reader worked. With the 2.6.20-16 Generic Kernel, the DVD-+RW will not mount. I have removed the -16 Generic Kernel and now am going with the -15 Generic kernel only. Overall it works great!

mikpap · Post by **mikpap** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:15 am

I have installed Linux Mint Bianca KDE 2.2 and Cassandra 3.0 in my two laptops (HP Pavilion zt3050ea with no problems, everything went smoothly and HP Pavilion zv5180ea where I had to manually configure the WLAN - Broadcom bcm43xx). Great perfomance, Beryl working almost perfect.

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:50 am

1) Homebuilt
Athlon 3700+ s754 ASUS K8N4-E Gigabyte gforce 6600GT 256 MB 2 Hitachi SATA 80GB and 160GB 2 GB RAM
Dual boot XP and Cassandra
2)Homebuilt
Athlon 1700+ ASUS A7V333 gforce 2MX440 one Hitachi PATA 125 GB and 512 MB RAM
On this one I've got a bunch of distros right now 7 different
3) Compaq Presario Laptop
Don't now the specs but I think Sempron 1100 256 MB RAM 30 GB disk and it's hopelessly slow.. and also litterally falling apart
Cassandra here

newW2 · Post by **newW2** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:32 pm

1) Homebuilt:
Athalon 4000+, 1-gigabyte Ram, Biostar T-Force 6100-939
Nvida Geforce 7600
320 Gigabyte HDD currently single boot Cassandra with partitioned for other (like testing Cassandra KDE when available)

2) Homebuilt:
Athalon 3500+, 1 gigabyte Ram, ASUS nForce3
Nvidia 5200
Tripple boot (MS XP, Cassandra, PCLOS): 120GB WD and 150GB WD SATA

3) Homebuilt:
Athalon 4000+, 1-gibayte Ram, Biostar T-Force 6100-939
Nvida Geforce 7600
Dual Boot: 320 Gigabyte HDD XP Home and Bianca 2.2 on 160 Gib HDD

mrreality13 · Post by **mrreality13** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:16 pm

newW2 wrote:1) Homebuilt:
Athalon 4000+, 1-gigabyte Ram, Biostar T-Force 6100-939
Nvida Geforce 7600
320 Gigabyte HDD currently single boot Cassandra with partitioned for other (like testing Cassandra KDE when available)

2) Homebuilt:
Athalon 3500+, 1 gigabyte Ram, ASUS nForce3
Nvidia 5200
Tripple boot (MS XP, Cassandra, PCLOS): 120GB WD and 150GB WD SATA

3) Homebuilt:
Athalon 4000+, 1-gibayte Ram, Biostar T-Force 6100-939
Nvida Geforce 7600
Dual Boot: 320 Gigabyte HDD XP Home and Bianca 2.2 on 160 Gib HDD

i too have the T-Force 6100-939 AND a GeForce 7600gs--its a good little set up isnt it--;)

newW2 · Post by **newW2** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 2:43 am

mrreality13 wrote:

i too have the T-Force 6100-939 AND a GeForce 7600gs--its a good little set up isnt it

Yes I've had no problem at all, and the price was right also.
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thomasmoens · Post by **thomasmoens** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 11:35 am

I use Mint on my self-built Sempron64 3800+ @ 1.6 GHz with 512 MB RAM
graphics card is a Radeon 9250.

I also have a laptop for school I install Mint on it during the summer holiday. For school i have a dual boot Ubuntu / Win xp and a triple boot looks just a waste of HD space to me!

newW2 · Post by **newW2** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 12:55 pm

thomasmoens wrote:

and a triple boot looks just a waste of HD space to me!

I agree the XP part is just there out the occasional work necessity and die hard family members

I dream of a day when all free people will no longer find it necessary to keep the dark power resident on a helpless computer!

Toontwnca · Post by **Toontwnca** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:41 pm

Just installed Bianca on my Toshiba A70.
All is good. Everything seems to work so far.

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