Hardware Compatibility

Hardware compatibility

This page is community-maintained. The project cannot test every PC, laptop, graphics chip, Wi-Fi card or printer. Add a report here or open an issue with the details so the table grows.

What to report

• Computer make and model, or the virtual machine.
• CPU and graphics.
• Wi-Fi and Ethernet chips.
• Screens and resolution/scale.
• What works and what does not.
• The ZacOS 9 version.

Tested machines

Machine	CPU / graphics	Wi-Fi / Ethernet	Notes
Add yours

Known-good areas

• PCs that boot Debian 13 with UEFI or BIOS.
• Intel and AMD graphics using the free drivers; older Radeon cards run the compositor in software (slower, but usable).
• USB keyboards and mice.
• Wired Ethernet.
• Printers that CUPS supports.

Known problem areas

• Very new Wi-Fi chips whose firmware is not in Debian's non-free-firmware.
• Some laptops with hybrid graphics need the correct GPU selected in the firmware.
• Zoom is disabled on rotated screens.
• Bluetooth depends on the adapter and its firmware.
• Old Mac hardware: see the Mac notes in the packaging documentation.

Macs

ZacOS 9 has been tried on Intel Macs from roughly 2008–2015. The live USB runs without changing the Mac's disk. Very old PowerPC Macs are not a target for the live ISO; classic Mac software runs inside Old Dog on a supported PC.

Adding a report

1. Open the bug report template.
2. Put the machine name in the title, for example “ThinkPad T480: Wi-Fi and sleep”.
3. Include the output of inxi -Fxz if you have it, or the relevant parts of Pedigree.
4. After it is confirmed, add a row to the table above.

Do not post serial numbers, MAC addresses, passwords or private file paths.