Compatible Laptops and Netbooks for LXLE
  • System:    Host: earth Kernel: 3.13.0-62-generic x86_64 (64 bit)
    Desktop: LXDE (Openbox 3.5.2)
     Distro: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty
    Machine:   System: Dell (portable) product: Latitude D630
    Mobo: Dell model: 0KU184 Bios: Dell version: A18 date: 12/06/2011
    CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU T7250
    Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile GM965/GL960
    Audio:     Card: Intel 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: k3.13.0-62-generic
    Network:   Card-1: Broadcom BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN driver: b43-pci-bridge
    Card-2: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express driver: tg3
     Drives:    HDD Total Size: 240.1GB (2.3% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: SanDisk_SDSSDX24 size: 240.1GB
    Partition: ID: / size: 37G used: 4.8G (14%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 184G used: 308M (1%) fs: ext4
               ID: swap-1 size: 1.03GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap ID: swap-2 size: 1.03GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap



    Edited out my mac addys. Even my broadcom worked out of the box! :)

    *edit* I don't see my memory listed (inxi -F). I have 2x2gb sticks. This was an old laptop from work I took since I didn't have one at home. Flies now.
    Thanked by 1borunco
  • Dell Vostro 1500, 64-bit, 4GB of RAM, and LXLE 14.04.2 is running like a champ on it. :-)
    Thanked by 1borunco
  • Dell Latitude E4200
    Intel Core2 Duo CPU U9600 @ 1.60GHz
    ATA SAMSUNG SSD PB22 64GB
    3049MB RAM

    LXLE 12.04.5 32bit

    Works wonderfully! :)
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    Thanked by 1borunco
  • ASUS RoG G74S
    core i7 4670QM 2.2Ghz
    12GB Ram
    500GB HDD
    NVidia Geforce GTX 560M 3GB (not bumblebee).
    -using open source driver for now.

    edit: using 14.04.3 as the install base, 64 bit.
  • hp-pavilion-dv6500-notebook-pc
     width: 32 bits
     size: 2015MiB
     product: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-58
     capacity: 1900MHz

    Asus EEE 1015 CX
    Intel Atom CPU N2600 @1.600 GHz
    RAM 1GB
    HD 360 GB


    running great on both PC, using LXLE 14.04.3 32 bit.




  • I would like to report a successful install of LXLE 14.04.3 on an Asus eee901 netbook. Everything works I think, though I'm still fussing with Bluetooth. This computer has two solid state drives.  The install was done from a 4 gig SD card prepared with unetbootin.

    I used Logical Volume Manager to bond the two drives into a single large root partition. There were several failures. I discovered that GRUB would NOT boot directly from an LVM partition so had to do the whole thing over, creating a conventional partition for boot files.

    Partitions on my two eee flash drives were created with gparted. The four gig drive has a 400 meg ext3 partition as sda1 which will be /boot, and a 3.4 gig sda2 formatted as lvm-pv. The sixteen gig drive has a 14.6 gig lvm-pv partition as sdb1 and the remainder as sdb2 designated as swap space. That's as far as gparted can go in setting up Logical Volume Manager. The rest of the process had to be done from a shell prompt.  I've pasted in a lot of the command lines here, hope it helps someone.


    Here is creating a single Volume Group spanning the two Physical Volumes:

    root@qwerty:/dev# vgcreate eee901 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb1
      Volume group "eee901" successfully created


    This shows the new Volume Group:

    root@qwerty:/dev# vgdisplay
      --- Volume group ---
      VG Name               eee901
      System ID            
      Format                lvm2
      Metadata Areas        2
      Metadata Sequence No  1
      VG Access             read/write
      VG Status             resizable
      MAX LV                0
      Cur LV                0
      Open LV               0
      Max PV                0
      Cur PV                2
      Act PV                2
      VG Size               17.62 GiB
      PE Size               4.00 MiB
      Total PE              4510
      Alloc PE / Size       0 / 0  
      Free  PE / Size       4510 / 17.62 GiB
      VG UUID               UCWmTv-iqbl-aif9-2kUo-l9V5-DS25-8xwrQB


    This shows the two Physical Volumes created with gparted:

    root@qwerty:/dev# pvdisplay
      --- Physical volume ---
      PV Name               /dev/sda2
      VG Name               eee901
      PV Size               3.37 GiB / not usable 2.00 MiB
      Allocatable           yes
      PE Size               4.00 MiB
      Total PE              861
      Free PE               861
      Allocated PE          0
      PV UUID               hs5hrm-5Twk-GJ23-QCWT-bEoj-Hb49-5Wal1A
      
      --- Physical volume ---
      PV Name               /dev/sdb1
      VG Name               eee901
      PV Size               14.26 GiB / not usable 4.00 MiB
      Allocatable           yes
      PE Size               4.00 MiB
      Total PE              3649
      Free PE               3649
      Allocated PE          0
      PV UUID               ee9DXN-nZ2Q-stYD-fJo2-WYrz-chjM-k4NNY7


    Continued in next post
  • Asus eee901 continued:

    Now create a 17 gigabyte Logical Volume on top of the Volume Group:
    Note the LV Path is needed in the format command next.

    root@qwerty:/dev# lvcreate -L 17G -n eee901LV eee901
      Logical volume "eee901LV" created


    root@qwerty:/dev# lvdisplay
      --- Logical volume ---
      LV Path                /dev/eee901/eee901LV
      LV Name                eee901LV
      VG Name                eee901
      LV UUID                p6D5iZ-UQ2l-g67h-MfHe-lMSO-M3VX-yq7seR
      LV Write Access        read/write
      LV Creation host, time qwerty, 2015-11-25 15:18:43 -0500
      LV Status              available
      # open                 0
      LV Size                17.00 GiB
      Current LE             4352
      Segments               2
      Allocation             inherit
      Read ahead sectors     auto
      - currently set to     256
      Block device           252:0


    Now that a 17 gig Logical Volume exists, it can be formatted. I use ext3 on this netbook.
       
    root@qwerty:/dev# mkfs -t ext3 /dev/eee901/eee901LV
    mke2fs 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
    Filesystem label=
    OS type: Linux
    Block size=4096 (log=2)
    Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
    Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
    1114112 inodes, 4456448 blocks
    222822 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
    First data block=0
    Maximum filesystem blocks=0
    136 block groups
    32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
    8192 inodes per group
    Superblock backups stored on blocks:
        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
        4096000

    Allocating group tables: done                            
    Writing inode tables: done                            
    Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
    Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done   

    root@qwerty:/dev#


    From this point I was able to double click the installer icon on the desktop and complete the operation. When you get to the disk option screen, choose "do something else". From there you need to designate the mount point of sda1 as "/boot" and the mount point of the LVM partition as "/". Proceed normally from there.


  • Thank you all for keeping this post going, it's very helpful.
    NEVER STOP LEARNING
    Acer Aspire One N270 130Gig ssd 2Gig ram
    LXLE 32bit
  • JaneWJaneW
    PMPosts: 2
    LXLE seems to work perfectly on my old 32-bit Lenovo X60s with an Intel SSD and 1GB of RAM. Just no problems at all.

    I tried some other distros but I think I like LXLE best.

    Indeed, maybe somebody could remind me why I'm using Windows at all (on my other, somewhat better computer).
  • boruncoborunco
    PMPosts: 229
    JaneW, Ha ha ha Nice.
    NEVER STOP LEARNING
    Acer Aspire One N270 130Gig ssd 2Gig ram
    LXLE 32bit