[IAEP] VIA C3 based laptop

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 08:35:05PM +0500, Ashar Iqbal wrote:
>I have got a laptop with a VIA C3 cpu. This needs i386 based software.
>Any suggestions as to how to install / run Sugar on this?
>
>I got Fedora 10 installed, but get an error on starting X windows.
>
>The only distro I got to work with a GUI on the machine is Mandrake 
>10...

  1) You need a Linux kernel that is *not* optimized for 686.  Some 
distros call it "386" and some call it "486".

  2) You need an xorg graphics driver supported by your graphics card.  
It is probably named unichrome or openchrome.  You can also try the vesa 
driver.

  3) You then need Sugar.  Either preinstalled, prepackaged or compiled 
yourself.

Sugar comes preinstalled on the SoaS distribution which is based on 
Fedora - but then you might have problems with the Linux kernel being 
too optimized or your graphics driver missing.

Sugar packages are available for some distros - of varying quality.

If you want to build yourself, you might consider doing it on a faster 
x86 machine and copy it over afterwards.


Good luck!


  - Jonas

Packaging Sugar for Debian, which has 486 kernel and openchrome driver, 
but Sugar is not currently up-to-date.

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