Linux Laptop & Notebook Installation Guides: TARGA

Linux installation and configuration guides for Companion, Traveller, Visionary, Xtender laptops and notebooks made by Targa. Compatibility 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.

Targa Companion 811	Gentoo	German
Targa Companion 811D	Linux	German
Targa Traveller S1	Knoppix 3.2, 5.1 Ubuntu 5.10
Targa Traveller 811	Novell/SuSE 64bit 9.2	German
Targa Traveller 826	Ubuntu 5.04
Targa Traveller 826	Ubuntu 5.04	German
Targa Traveller 856W	Debian AMD64 (x86_64)
Targa Visionary 1000	Debian	German
Targa Visionary 1300 WS	Debian	German
Targa Visionary 1600 WS (LIDL Laptop)	Novell/SuSE 9.2	German
Targa Visionary 1600 WS (LIDL Laptop)	Novell/SuSE 9.2
Targa Visionary 1800 WS [LIDL 2002]	Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger	German
Targa Visionary XP 2400+	Novell/SuSE 8.2, 9.1	German
Targa TS30AS	Debian

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Resources

• Laptop Manufacturers: Linux Status Survey
• manufacturer site: Targa
• Linux Mobile Guide - Installing, Maintaining and Tuning of Linux on Mobile Computers
• How to do-it-yourself Targa 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
• The laptops made by Targa are also sold under these brands: Arima, eMachines, Lidl (Germany).

Community: Mailing Lists, Forums, FAQs, HOWTOs, Wikis

The gpl-violations.org project has uncovered violations by TARGA GmbH, a German Notebook Vendor, of the GNU General Public License (GPL). According to gpl-violations.org, TARGA GmbH used GPL licensed software in the "TARGA Quick Media" software that is pre-installed on their Traveller 826T MT32 notebooks.