Comments on: Good News for Linux/Menlow Netbooks, UMPCs and MIDs

By: Anfanglir

Anfanglir — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:26:36 +0000

Tried the currently available alpha of jolicloud, no poulsbo suppport in that one (yea I know they said the NEXT release will have poulsbo, but I had to check) :p

By: Jonathanius

Jonathanius — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:28:25 +0000

The touchscreen doesn’t work for me in Mandriva either, in Ubuntu one need only to install xserver-xorg-input-evtouch for it to work, but the corresponding Mandriva package does nothing.

By: Anfanglir

Anfanglir — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:03:31 +0000

After reading this post I installed Mandriva 2010 One on one partition on my Fujitsu u820 (GMA500). Graphics does indeed work out of the box, with compiz effects and all.

Touch screen, screen rotate and fujitsu hardware buttons do not work. Google and the Mandriva forums give me no hints how to enable these things on Mandriva, so I’ll probably return to Ubuntu, after tweaking graphics worked almost OK at least in Ubuntu 9.04. I’ve signed up for testing the Jolicloud alpha BTW, hope I will get an invitation.

/ Anfanglir

By: ProDigit

ProDigit — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:26:03 +0000

Mandriva has as far as I know the greatest support of drivers.Even when the first EeePc was released, Mandriva was the only OS that ran the EeePc701 out of the box (Xandros excluded, which was Asus’ OS of choice); including the Fn keys for volume and display brightness.

It took months before the first XP was operational on a 4GB SSD, and later Slax followed, as well as drivers where created for Ubuntu.

I’ve always been amazed at mandriva,though I would not run it on a netbook as it is quite a heavier OS than Xubuntu or Ubuntu.

By: Jonathanius

Jonathanius — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:14:57 +0000

Mandriva 2010 has out of the box support for GMA 500, booting from the liveUSB gives me native resolution with compiz, etc.
Support in Ubuntu 9.04 was good, but required a bit of tweaking. However performance in 9.10 UNR was horrible, even with all the tweaks, perhaps I did something wrong, perhaps the situation has improved now on that…
Fedora 11 works well, I’m writing from it right now. Fedora 12 (which came out today) will not be supported since it uses a new version of X.org…

However, no solution has been adequate for my T91, either the touchscreen does not work, or it crashes the thing. So I’m waiting till a good driver comes out.

By: lintweaker

lintweaker — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:02:09 +0000

I am running Fedora 11 on my Archos 9 tablet (Atom Z510 and GMA500 video). The required poulsbo drivers are provided by the rpmfusion repo. The is no driver for Fedora 12 (yet). Lets hope the upcoming GMA500 driver release (if any) will change that.