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Samsung P560
Introduction
This is a guide to running Linux with the Samsung P560 laptop. Samsung's P560 is a business laptop which incorporates excellent Linux compatibility.
This guide is intended to provide you details on how well this laptop works with Linux and which modules you need to configure. For details on how to actually install and configure the required modules have a look at our guides section for distribution specific instructions.
This page is just for discussing using Linux on the Samsung P560. For a general discussion about this laptop you can visit the Samsung P560 page on LapWik.
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Specifications
For full specifications see the Samsung P560 specifications page.
| Name | Samsung P560 |
| Processor | Intel® Core 2 Duo Processor P7450 (2.13GHz, 1066Mhz, 3MB) |
| Screen | 15.4” WSXGA+ Widescreen |
| RAM | 3GB |
| HDD | 250GB |
| Optical Drive | DVD+-RW DVD+-RW with Lightscribe |
| Graphics | NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS |
| Network | 10/100/1000 Ethernet Intel WiFi Link 5100 802.11a/b/g/n 1×2 (MIMO) |
Linux Compatibility
| Device | Compatibility | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Yes | |
| Screen | Yes | |
| HDD | Yes | |
| Optical Drive | Yes | |
| Graphics | Yes | |
| Sound | Yes | |
| Ethernet | Yes | |
| Wireless | Yes | |
| Bluetooth | Yes | |
| Modem | Not Tested | |
| USB | Yes | |
| Card Reader | Yes | |
| PCMCIA | Yes | |
| Fingerprint Reader | Yes | |
| Webcam | Yes |
Notes
Webcam: uvcvideo module needs quirks=16
Summary
No issues were experienced when installing an up to date Linux distribution on the Samsung P560. Linux installation was a breeze.
Author(s)
Jan-Michael Brummer
Discussion
Just got mine :)
It's more modern, as it has a P8700 (2.53GHz) and 4GB of RAM - which gave me some headache: It would not boot any Linux Kernel, sooner or later (rather sooner) it would just reboot. Seems to be some problem with BIOS and 4GB limit.
Specifying 'mem=4080M' as kernel boot option cured that. Reportedly there is also a newer BIOS version (11LU) that fixes the problems (mine right now is 09LU).
See also http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?action=printpage;topic=3109274.0