If your laptop isn't listed below doesn't mean that it won't work,
and you will most likely find a similar model that is listed below.
Most laptops work very well, however some will still have minor issues.
Laptop |
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Acer Aspire 1360
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- OpenBSD 3.7 works.
- It comes with AMD Sempron 2800+.
- Everything works fine (mini-PCI slot, VIA S3 Unichrome PRO, VIA
RhineII-2).
Contact Maxim
Bourmistrov.
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xorg.conf
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Clevo D410V
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- Works with OpenBSD 3.7-current (2005 May)
- CPU: 2.8Ghz with HyperThreading. I use it with GENERIC kernel.
- Graphics: ATI 9600. It's working fine with Xorg loaded glx.
DRI not working. Resolution 1400x1050 works fine.
- Ethernet: 100/1000 Realtek 8169. Working with re(4) fine.
- PCMCIA: Working with NetGear WG511T WiFi Card. ath(4)
- USB: Working. I tried with Lexar JumpDrive.
- Sound: auich(4) working ( AC97 )
- apm(8) is not working properly. Cannot apm -S:
apm0: APM set power state: unable to enter requested state (96)
- apm -z freezes.
- SD Card reader probably works, although I haven't tested yet.
- Infra is not working.
- CD/DVD -
QSI, CDRW/DVD SBW-242, UX02 SCSI0 5/cdrom removable
I can write cd, and view dvd.
Contact Adam Papai
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xorg.conf
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Dell Inspiron 500m
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- OpenBSD 3.7-current (June 2005) works.
- Sound, touchpad, fxp onboard NIC work fine.
- USB: able to mount flash stick read/write, even able to install
OpenBSD on it and boot from it
- Pressing "Fn" and uparrow/downarrow keys to configure brightness
works, as well as switching to external VGA
- For getting the Intel ipw2100 wireless card to work,
use
Damien Bergamini's firmware package.
- There was (expected) trouble with the screen resolution in X.
Using
i855vidctl,
it goes to 1400x1050 as wanted by adding the line:
i855vidctl 5c 1400x1050
into /etc/rc.securelevel.
- APM does not seem to work at all: Neither apmd
nor halt -p operate ok.
For any other experiences on this, contact the submitter.
- PCMCIA not tested
- No extra xorg.conf supplied, the default is OK.
Contact Baldur Sigurðsson.
dmesg
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Dell Inspiron 4100
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- OpenBSD 3.7 works.
- apmd(8) is fully functional.
- Integrated xl(4) works fine.
- Integrated auich(4) works fine.
- USB works fine with my mouse.
- Both PCMCIA slots work.
- The Modem does not work.
Contact Robert Nagy.
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xorg.conf
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Dell Latitude c610
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- OpenBSD 3.7-current (May 24, 2005) works.
- Audio, video (1400x1050), and onboard NIC work just fine.
Contact Steve Tornio.
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xorg.conf
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Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D 7820
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- OpenBSD 3.6 works.
- APM is not working (boot with boot -c and then disable apm).
- Sound works fine.
- Everything else on the machine works.
Contact Alexander Schmid.
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XF86Config
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Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E8010 with i855/SXGA+
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- OpenBSD 3.7 works.
- SD card reader and SVGA are not supported.
- Doesn't have APM, so there's no way to suspend
or 'halt -p' the box.
- iwi(4)
needs an increased watchdog timeout of 10 in busy
environments, see
if_iwi.c.diff
(with or without this diff, you might still experience 'fatal error'
from time to time).
- needs Xorg-current (+
855resolution for full 1400x1050 resolution).
The laptop only does 1280x1024 by default.
- Everything else on the machine works.
Contact Nikolay Sturm.
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xorg.conf
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if_iwi.c.diff
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IBM Thinkpad T23 model 26478NU.
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- Works fine with OpenBSD 3.7-current (April 2005).
- If using a boot floppy the system may hang when probing ahc.
Workaround: boot with -c and disable ahc.
A GENERIC kernel does not have this issue.
- Serial ports must be enabled in BIOS.
- "ctrl:nocaps" in X puts the control key in a proper location
- Apm mostly works -- suspends OK
- Hibernation not tested, but should work with
/usr/ports/sysutils/tphdisk from the ports collection.
- The audio chipset is supported (auich).
- See http://www.snafu.org/t23/
for more info.
Contact Marco S Hyman.
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xorg.conf
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IBM Thinkpad T42 model 2373
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- OpenBSD 3.7 works fine.
- See entry for the X40 for the built-in
iwi(4) or
ipw(4)
802.11 card and APM/Hibernation support.
- See entry for the X31 for Enhanced SpeedStep and the extra Thinkpad buttons.
- The alternatively built-in "Atheros AR5212 (IBM MiniPCI)" 802.11 card works with the
ath(4)
driver.
- X.org with ATI Radeon Mobility works fine (1024x768, 24bpp).
- The built-in USB Bluetooth and infrared are not presently supported.
- The built-in
em(4)
gigabit ethernet device works fine.
- The built-in
auich(4)
audio device works fine.
- The built-in fingerprint scanner found in some models is not supported.
Contact Reyk Floeter.
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xorg.conf
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IBM Thinkpad X31
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Contact Bernd Ahlers.
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xorg.conf
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IBM Thinkpad X40
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- OpenBSD 3.7 works fine.
- SD Card Slot is not presently supported.
- The built-in "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG" works only with additional
firmware. See
iwi(4)
for more information.
- The use of other mini-PCI cards may be restricted by the BIOS.
However, non-IBM supplied cards can be used after running the
/usr/ports/misc/tpwireless utility.
- APM works fine, including suspend to hard-disk (hibernation)
- If you want to use Hibernation, you must have a small
msdos partition with a save2dsk.bin. For this, you can use
/usr/ports/sysutils/tphdisk.
- Perhaps one of the best supported notebooks because several
developers also use it.
Contact Marcus Popp.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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JVC MP-XP 7250DE
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- OpenBSD 3.6-current (October 2004) works.
- Everything works fine except APM and the built-in
SD card reader.
- Since OpenBSD 3.4 the boot loader does not boot correctly from
USB CDROM on this machine -- workaround: take 3.3 and upgrade or
boot via network or PCMCIA floppy.
- The audio chipset is supported. Wireless 802.11b PRISM 2.5 (USB)
is supported, too.
Contact Joerg Zinke.
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xorg.conf
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more info.
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Medion MD6100 (model no. FID2040)
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- OpenBSD 3.7-current (April 2005) works.
- ACPI-only machine, no APM support.
- sis0 has certain issues, see postings
[1],
[2], and
[3].
- infrared does not work under OpenBSD.
- sound is erratic, two out of three times.
- USB2.0 doesn't work (pci_intr_map: no mapping for pin D).
- To use the onboard NIC, make sure the interface is in Promiscuous
mode. I use `tcpdump -i sis0 -w /dev/null` to accomplish this. For
normal operation I add a (wireless) PCMCIA NIC.
Audio programs (mplayer/mpg123/ogg123/xmms/etc) simply should be
restarted once or twice to get proper audio.
Overall, this laptop stinks. It's heavy, powerhungry and gets very hot
(too hot, often it will shut itself down to prevent meltdown).
A lot of hardware works only mediocre. The battery doesn't last long.
It's huge/bulky. It's *extremely* noisy. But, it *does* run OpenBSD.
And, when properly cooled, it's pretty fast (2.6 GHz). Why anyone
would need that much CPU in a laptop is beyond me, but it's there.
Contact Paul de Weerd.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Sony VAIO PCG C1XD
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- OpenBSD 3.6 works, but there are some minor issues.
- USB and built-in sound (Yamaha) work just fine.
- My 3com Megahertz Cardbus LAN Card
xl(4)
works ok.
- Jog Dial and the mini camera were useless to me, so I never
tested them.
- While the GENERIC Kernel works fine, the installation ramdisk
kernel hangs on booting since OpenBSD 3.3 or so. Disabling the
cardslot and PCMCIA subsystem in UKC before booting makes the ramdisk
come up, too. But then you have to install from images you left on
the hard disk before (e. g. in a discardable filesystem in the
partition you want to use for swapping later), because you can't
access LAN or WLAN without the cardslot.
- Removing cards from the PCMCIA/Cardbus slot on a running
system may cause system freeze or instant reboot sometimes.
- My D-Link DWL-650 (PrismII) works for some time, but then
locks up and has to be reinserted to work again. This, however,
causes the problems mentioned above.
- APM works partly: "halt -p" switches off the machine, but
sometimes, you can't wake up from "zzz".
Contact Alexander von Gernler.
dmesg
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XF86Config
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Sony VAIO VGN-S16TP
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- OpenBSD 3.7-current (June 2005) works.
- Everything works just fine.
Contact Kevin Lo.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Sony VAIO z505n
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Contact Matthias Bauer.
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Toshiba Satellite 2410S
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- It's running OpenBSD 3.7-current (April 2005).
- All stuff are working fine (graphics, sound, PCMCIA, APM,
ethernet), except infrared and the built-in SD card reader.
- There's a bug with certain toshiba laptops and XFree/X.org. Ratio is
too quick, and some chars are repeated. To avoid that, disable
X's
kbd handling, and load a modmap with xmodmap if needed.
Contact Alexandre Anriot.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Toshiba Tecra 8000
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- OpenBSD 3.6-current (Jan 2005) works ok.
- All hardware except infrared works.
- Some issues with APM suspend/resume.
- Sound required the following change to /bsd :
- In the system BIOS use the following values
Sound = Enabled
--- SOUND SYSTEM ---
WSS I/O Address = 530H
SBPro I/O Address = 220H
Synthesizer I/O Address = 388H
WSS & SBPro & MPU401 IRQ Level = IRQ5
WSS(Play) DMA = Channel 1
WSS(Rec.) & SBPro DMA = Channel 0
Control I/O Address = 538H
MPU401 (MIDI I/F) = 330H
- config -f -e /bsd
ukc> disable sb
193 sb0 disabled
241 sb* disabled
ukc> change wss0
197 wss0 at isa0 port 0x530 size 0 iomem -1 iosiz 0 irq 10 drq 0
+drq2 -1 flags 0x0
change [n] y
port [0x530] ?
size [0] ?
iomem [-1] ?
iosiz [0] ?
irq [10] ? 5
drq [0] ? 1
drq2 [-1] ? 0
flags [0] ?
197 wss0 changed
197 wss0 at isa0 port 0x530 size 0 iomem -1 iosiz 0 irq 5 drq 1
+drq2 0 flags 0x0
ukc> quit
Saving modified kernel.
- separate xorg.conf not needed, X works perfectly without one
An older but still very useable laptop. Not too fast, but fast enough
for some DivX viewing with mplayer and firefox/thunderbird-use (not
for the impatient though, but then again, what is?). The fan can get
a bit loud after many power-on hours. This also impacts battery
lifetime, but that is to be expected. Nice and well supported.
Contact Paul de Weerd.
dmesg
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Toshiba Tecra 8100
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- OpenBSD 3.7-current (April 2005) works ok.
- All hardware except infrared works.
- Some issues with APM suspend/resume.
Very nice laptop indeed. Quiet, boots very fast, most hardware is
supported. Only APM doesn't work very well. Pretty fast, not too
heavy, very OpenBSD-friendly - just like its predecessor, the Tecra
8000. Battery can get a bit rusty, works good from 100% to 50%, then
drops to ~3% in minutes. Not too strange for an older machine though.
Contact Paul de Weerd.
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xorg.conf
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