[CS-FSLUG] AOP-8150HT-A1 Panel PC

[Chad Fluegge]

Well, I'd rather not use slackware...

I did, however find a distro that recognized and configured my video
card. Slitaz. It did not, however, correctly configure my network. I
got the same results with slitaz with my network as I did with the
debian net install... zero. Oh well, I have a wireless adapter that
I'm going to try and use with slitaz. Will see how that goes.

Chad

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Eduardo Sanchez <lists at sombragris.org> wrote:
> On Monday 19 July 2010 13:04:51 Chad Fluegge wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Anybody have any tips on getting linux - any distribution... lol - to
>> work on this PC? I got it for a steal at shopgoodwill.com:
>> http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=6333681
>>
>> Windows XP Pro installs just fine, but I'd really like to get linux
>> installed on here. The greatest issue with this PC is the graphics. It
>> has a VIA CLE266 integrated graphics card. Which, according to this
>> site: http://www.openchrome.org/trac/wiki/SupportedHardware, is
>> supported under the openchrome drivers.
>>
>> I have successfully installed a couple variants of CB, but it will
>> only boot up to a blank screen. The CB strains that I have installed
>> all use the latest Xserver, so I issued the X -configure command to
>> generate an xorg.conf.new file that I can tinker with. Well, no matter
>> what I do, I get a signal 11 segmentation fault.
>>
>> I have checked to make sure that the openchrome drivers are installed,
>> and the latest openchrome drivers are present and accounted for.
>>
>> I have tried a couple of other distributions as well. I have tried
>> Dream Linux 4.0 beta5. It refused to bring me to the desktop. I was
>> able to install it from the console, but I couldn't fix the grub
>> issue, so I couldn't get back to a console to try and fix the video
>> issues.
>>
>> I have also tried FC 12. Even though I played around with various
>> vga=### combinations, I couldn't get Anaconda to display properly
>> enough to get it installed.
>>
>> I also tried to boot up into puppy linux. I get to the point where I
>> needed to configure X, but no combination would get me to a working
>> desktop.
>>
>> So...any suggestions?
>
> I would suggest trying to use a good LiveCD Linux distro, such as Slax.
> Besides that, Slackware 13.1 has a fairly recent kernel, and its X server
> autoconfigures itself using the best driver.
>
> Blessings,
>
> Eduardo
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-- 
Chad, Jess & Lil' Sam Fluegge
Psalms 61:5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given me
the heritage of those that fear thy name.
Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD,
and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.