Linux Laptop & Notebook Installation Guides: AOpen

Linux installation and configuration guides for BareBook, OpenBook laptops and notebooks made by AOPEN. Reports about running other Unix systems e.g. BSD, Solaris are welcome, too. And don't miss the resources section at the bottom, containing links to applications, tools, utilities, drivers, community portals, HOWTOs and FAQs. Do you have written an installation tutorial yourself? Please submit a new report.

Aopen BareBook 1551	ARCHlinux 0.7.2 Gimmick
Aopen BareBook 1556	Mandriva (Mandrake) 2006, 2007
Aopen BareBook 1559AS	Debian
Aopen OpenBook 1545	Debian, Mandriva (Mandrake), PCLinuxOS
Aopen OpenBook 1551	Debian
Aopen OpenBook 1557G (aka Idea Progress LiberoCentrino9600)	Slackware 9.1	Italian
Aopen OpenBook 1557GLS	Debian Sarge
Aopen OpenBook 1557GLS	Fedora Core 2
Aopen OpenBook 1557GLS	Ubuntu 6.06
Aopen OpenBook 1846	Mandriva (Mandrake) 10.0

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Resources

• Laptop Manufacturers: Linux Status Survey
• manufacturer site: AOPEN
• Linux Mobile Guide - Installing, Maintaining and Tuning of Linux on Mobile Computers
• How to do-it-yourself AOpen laptop and notebook upgrading, repairing and modding.
• vendors which sell pre-installed Linux laptops, notebooks, PDAs or mobile phones

Original Equipment Manufacturer - OEM

If you are looking for drivers, software and service manuals for laptops and notebooks you may sometimes find similar models branded under a different name. Especially the FCC-ID can be helpful to detect the original manufacturer.

• OEM relations between manufacturers
• FCC ID: unknown

Applications and Drivers

• Synaptics touchpad driver for Linux