Acer T180 and Linux
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From: Trevor Chapman on 3 Jan 2007 16:38 Hello All, I have an Acer T180 and I have been trying to put Linux onto it. I am unable to install Suse 10.0. It loads from cdrom as far as the install screen and then says it cannot find the cdrom drive. I have installed Ubunto 6.10 and Mandriva 2007 but when I go into the system to use it, it fails to find the cdrom drive. I did not expect it to find the sound card ot network, but i thought I would be able to use the ata i/f. Anyone installed Linux on to this system? Thanks.
From: -G- on 3 Jan 2007 16:57 Trevor Chapman wrote: > Hello All, I have an Acer T180 and I have been trying to put Linux onto > it. I am unable to install Suse 10.0. No idea if that is a computer or suse problem, but suse 10.2 is out. Have you tried that version? Cheers, -G-
From: Trevor Chapman on 6 Jan 2007 17:05 Trevor Chapman wrote: Following on from this, I have decided to try a new motherboard. Any recommendations for an microATX board for socket AM2 with integrated graphices? Nothing too dear mind - the pension won't stretch that far! The fitted board is an MSI MCP61SM which has nVidia 6100 graphics chip and mcp61 support chip and I cannot install Linux. > Hello All, I have an Acer T180 and I have been trying to put Linux onto > it. I am unable to install Suse 10.0. It loads from cdrom as far as the > install screen and then says it cannot find the cdrom drive. I have > installed Ubunto 6.10 and Mandriva 2007 but when I go into the system to > use it, it fails to find the cdrom drive. I did not expect it to find the > sound card ot network, but i thought I would be able to use the ata i/f. > Anyone installed Linux on to this system? Thanks.
From: Darren Salt on 6 Jan 2007 17:57 I demand that Trevor Chapman may or may not have written... > Following on from this, I have decided to try a new motherboard. Any > recommendations for an microATX board for socket AM2 with integrated > graphices? Nothing too dear mind - the pension won't stretch that far! The > fitted board is an MSI MCP61SM which has nVidia 6100 graphics chip and > mcp61 support chip and I cannot install Linux. Nothing specific... Intel graphics is probably your best choice, though that would rule out AMD processors. I wouldn't rule out ATI stuff unless it's one without open-source 3D acceleration support. Not sure which of the newer ones are supported - various R3xx and R4xx, I think, but radeon(4) is somewhat out of date. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Use more efficient products. Use less. BE MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT. Missing extent, 0:1
From: Trevor Chapman on 7 Jan 2007 16:00
Darren Salt wrote: >> Following on from this, I have decided to try a new motherboard. Any >> recommendations for an microATX board for socket AM2 with integrated >> graphices? Nothing too dear mind - the pension won't stretch that far! >> The fitted board is an MSI MCP61SM which has nVidia 6100 graphics chip >> and mcp61 support chip and I cannot install Linux. > > Nothing specific... Intel graphics is probably your best choice, though > that would rule out AMD processors. I wouldn't rule out ATI stuff unless > it's one without open-source 3D acceleration support. Not sure which of > the newer ones are supported - various R3xx and R4xx, I think, but > radeon(4) is somewhat out of date. Thanks for the replym but I intend to change over the components from my existing AM2 board, including the Athlon 3800+ X2 so I need a board that supports them. |