What hardware for linux

How to know what hardware works well with linux?

They even release driver versions for FreeBSD and Solaris. NVIDIA Unix Drivers — this page links to specific driver versions.

How to know what hardware works well with linux?

Check Linux hardware compatibility list http://www.linux-drivers.org/

You can check the hardware compatibility list at www.linuxdrivers.org

If you have time to spend, you can try using some live cd, like ubuntu or mandriva.

If the livecd run correctly, is a good sign that it will work at your system.

2 list sites: linux.org/hardware/ linuxcompatible.org/compatibility.html

This is a little more user-friendly and helps you see general trends: http://linux.com/news/hardware/drivers/8203-is-my-hardware-linux-compatible-find-out-here

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How do I choose a graphics card for Linux?

Open source drivers are getting pretty good these days. I haven’t had any problem with Intel or AMD hardware.

Intel
I hear the old ones are pretty bad, but my G4500HD does everything I need well. Video acceleration could be better though. There isn’t a proprietary driver for Intel either, your only choice is open source. The composited 3D desktop in KDE works great on my laptop which has an Intel chip.

AMD/ATi
Right now the older cards are better supported than the new ones. If you could somehow get an x1800 or something from the same generation that would probably be the best. The r300g driver is getting more development work than r600g . That’s not to say r600g is bad, in fact it’s great! It’s just somewhat behind the driver for the older hardware. AMD has a proprietary driver for the new hardware, but in my experience you want to avoid it; it’s pretty bad. The hardware covered by r300g isn’t supported by that driver, so the open driver is your only option there. And like the Intel chip I have, my Radeon 4850 runs the composited desktop in KDE well.

At the moment, I wouldn’t recommend an HD6000 series. The 6900s have no support at all in the open driver, and the others have basic support. Go for an HD5000 or an HD4000.

Nvidia
They have a really good proprietary driver, but the open driver is struggling along. It’s getting better all the time, but Nvidia is doing nothing to help the developers. At least AMD helps out a little bit for their hardware.

The advantage to having an open driver is that it will work out of the box in any distro. If you install Fedora, everything will work including dual screen and 3D. The proprietary ones are painful to setup. Neither of them properly set up my dual screens. It was easier to setup with Nvidia which isn’t saying much because the AMD blob was just awful at this. Also, anytime you update the kernel, you have to reinstall the driver. Most distros take care of this if you install the in-repo version, but if you don’t it’s annoying to boot up one morning and realize you updated the kernel and now X.org doesn’t work.

If you aren’t planning on playing 3D games, either the Intel or AMD drivers are the best. The AMD driver is more modern than the Intel one, it uses the Gallium3D architecture within Mesa (that’s what the g stands for in r600g ), but they both get the job done.

Although this post is based on facts, it still contains my personal experience and opinions.

Although there is a project for OpenSource drivers, you probably need to consider Nvidia being closed source drivers only. Now in case of Nvidia this doesn’t really bring a lot of bad things since they really work on their drivers very hard. The best support when it comes to closed source graphic card drivers on Linux.

Nvidia graphic cards are the only ones that provide equivalent performance on Linux and Windows.

Still, the closed source drivers imply some limitations like no support for features available only to GPL drivers (like KMS).

Now when choosing Intel you need to be extremely careful. Some of the Intel graphic cards are actually 3rd party bundled cards that don’t have any (or have very crappy) support. But if you choose the correct chip, you can enjoy the best opensource drivers out there. For example even very low end Intel cards can be faster in compositing window managers then high end Nvidia cards.

Now this is complex. AMD provides both proprietary drivers (that tend to suck a lot) and they also release documentation and support opensource drivers development.

Now the problem is that the opensource drivers will never contain certain licensed/patented/etc. features and since they don’t really concentrate on the closed source drivers development I guess they will always be behind (Windows features/performance).

Check out the following lists of linux friendly graphics cards/chipsets, both open and proprietary:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=category&item=Graphics%20Cards (provides benchmarks and reviews and all, pretty cool)

On a personal note, i would choose a NVIDIA graphics card. Their proprietary linux drivers are really good and frequently updated. They even release driver versions for FreeBSD and Solaris. To my knowledge there’s no match out there(neither proprietary nor free) and I didn’t have any real issues with direct rendering and 3D pertaining to NVIDIA cards since GeForce series got out.

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Will my device work with Ubuntu?

Try it out.

This is the only real answer — there is enough variation in hardware specifics (even in a given model), and software changes too often, for any specific answer to remain valid long enough. Conversely, the many different components involved can cause many, different and unrelated, problems, so a post about what will happen with a specific device doesn’t fit well with the Stack Exchange Question & Answer format:

You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.

_{Help: What types of questions should I avoid asking?}

We can’t handle open-ended questions about what problems you could face, but questions about specific problems are much better.

Live

You can make a bootable USB from the Ubuntu installation ISOs, and then try out a live session instead of installing. The live session doesn’t make changes to your system by itself, so it’s a safe way to test drive Ubuntu. However, even a successful run of the live session is not a certain indicator — there have been cases where the live session worked fine but the installed Ubuntu didn’t.

• As a minimal check, first see: What are the system requirements for each flavour of Ubuntu Desktop? and the list of Ubuntu certified devices. Certified devices might rely on proprietary drivers, and so may work best with the specific Ubuntu release for which they were certified.
• If your system is underpowered, then see: How do I find out which version and derivative of Ubuntu is right for my hardware in terms of minimal system requirements? Pick a lightweight flavour like Lubuntu or Xubuntu and proceed. Hardware support is the same across flavours (same kernel, same repositories) but hardware requirements can differ.
• You can try a normal release, or an LTS release: What’s the difference between a Long Term Support Release and a Normal Release?

Now, proceed to the first few steps of: How do I install Ubuntu? You should see an option to «Try Ubuntu»:

Once the live session starts, play around a bit with Ubuntu to see how much of your hardware works and how well it works. Try to narrow down any problems that you faced, and post individual questions with relevant details. Then we can help you with the specifics.

What follows is a set of links, both to posts here on Ask Ubuntu, and elsewhere, that can help you in your quest. I’ll try to avoid passing judgement on any particular manufacturer, but instead try to link to canonical posts that’s likely to be kept updated. The major tag for each section is also given next to heading, use them when asking questions. So, for example, a WiFi problem with a Qualcomm Atheros chip would be tagged networking wireless atheros and include the output of the wireless info script.

Common problem points

Hardware support can be hit and miss. It is helpful if you can lookup the exact hardware configuration of your system (i.e., not «3GB graphics» or «Killer WiFi», but «NVidia GTX 670MX» or «Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac» — the exact model number is important).

• I have a hardware detection problem, what logs do I need to look into?
• How can I find my hardware details?

Dual-boot dual-boot

• How can I install Ubuntu without removing Windows?
• You might have problems accessing the Windows partitions. See Unable to mount Windows (NTFS) filesystem due to hibernation

UEFI uefi

Recent releases of Ubuntu tend to play well with UEFI. See How do I install Ubuntu alongside a pre-installed Windows with UEFI?

Networking networking

WiFi wireless

Post a question with the information from My wireless/WiFi connection does not work. What information is needed to diagnose the issue?

• Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers
• Kernel Wireless Wiki’s list of supported devices (and for the legacy driver)
• Release Notes — look for your device in the Release Notes

• Kernel Wireless wiki’s list of supported devices

• Kernel Wireless wiki’s list of supported devices
• Intel’s page on Linux* Support for Intel® Wireless Adapters

Ethernet ethernet

Graphics graphics

NVidia nvidia

• How do I install the Nvidia drivers?
• NVIDIA Unix Drivers — this page links to specific driver versions. Each version has a list of supported devices.

AMD amd-graphics

• Ubuntu 14.04.5/16.04 and newer on AMD graphics
• Which graphics cards are supported by the new AMDGPU driver in Ubuntu 16.04?
• AMDGPU-PRO Release Notes (see section on product compatibility)

Intel intel-graphics

• No version of Ubuntu can be installed with any Skylake 6th generation Intel processor (not really, it just needs a kernel version > 4.3 so a new enough Ubuntu should work out-of-the-box).

CPU cpu

Intel intel

• Is the 64-Bit version of Ubuntu only compatible with AMD CPUs? (Spoiler: no.)
• Possible missing frmware /lib/firmware/i915
• System freezes completely with Intel Bay Trail (is fixed now in 20.04)

ARM arm

If you have an ARM device, these might be informative:

Fingerprint reader fingerprint-reader

• How do I install a fingerprint reader on Lenovo ThinkPad? (it’s actually more general than just Thinkpads)
• Driver for Validity Sensors Fingerprint scanner

Webcams webcam

• Integrated webcam not detected after update to 14.04
• Webcam (Ubuntu Community Wiki)
• UVC driver homepage has a list of all officially supported webcam models by this one universal driver.

SSDs ssd

Touchpad touchpad

• Synaptic touchpad on laptop not working
• How do I make modprobe changes permanent? — if you keep having to run modprobe to activate your touchpad.

Sound sound

How can I tell if all the hardware in my system has, 9 Dash, type in «test» and it will show a test suite.When started it will take a while collecting and then show this: It will take a while but the end result will be a full report. Besides that if you do no run into crashes or get error notices it basically works. Ubuntu (Linux in general) uses generic drivers. So if you can use it it …

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