Lenovo 3000 V200
This guide is intended to provide you details on how well this laptop works with Linux and which drivers you need to configure. For details on how to actually install and configure the required drivers have a look at our guides section for distribution specific instructions.
If you are looking to purchase this laptop you can visit Lenovo's 3000 series notebooks page.
Authors
Sam Freed (v200 at freed.net)Introduction
This is a guide to running Linux with the Lenovo 3000 V200 laptop.This page is under construction.
It works out of the box with Debain (I use unstable), but several fetures need tweaking, and some (video camera) don't work. However, let this not discourage you, it is a fine machine.
Specifications
| Name | Lenovo 3000 V200 | |
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2GHz | |
| Screen | 12.1" WXGA | |
| RAM | 2GB | |
| HDD | 120GB | |
| Optical Drive | DVD+-RW,2Layer | |
| Graphics | Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 965 | |
| Network | 10/100 Ethernet, Intel 4965 802.11agn Wireless, Bluetooth | |
| Other | 3 x USB2.0, 1 x Firewire | |
Linux Compatibility
| Device | Compatibility | Comments |
| Processor | Yes | |
| Screen | Yes | |
| Optical Drive | Yes | |
| Graphics | Yes | Use the Intel driver |
| Sound | Yes | Use the snd-hda-intel driver with model=test |
| Touchpad | yes | Dont forget to apt-get the synaptics driver for xorg (and gnome) |
| Ethernet | Yes | |
| Wireless | Yes | Use iwlwifi driver |
| Bluetooth | Yes | |
| 56K Modem | Not Tested | |
| USB | Yes | ICH8 |
| Firewire | Not Tested | |
| SD Card Reader | Yes | |
| PCMCIA | Not Tested | |
Notes
ACPI
Broken DSDTIssues and Bug Reports
| Issue | Status | |
| NoSound | Temporary Solution Available | |
| Camera Driver crash | Pending | |
| WiFi issue | Resolved in iwlwifi 1.0+ | |
| Thinkpad bug | Unrelated | |
| SATA driver warnings | Resolved in 2.6.23+ | |
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Summary
There are few problems in getting the Lenovo 3000 V200 working when used with an up to date Linux distribution, none of the problems seriously hinders use.Have you installed Linux on this laptop? If so how about leaving a comment about your success in the comments section below.
Comments
Is the cam still a no-go?
NoSound
Except one thing... The sound. I've tried lots of different solutions but none is working.
How did you do to get it to work?
/Ollie
Re: NoSound