[IAEP] VIA C3 based laptop

[Ashar Iqbal]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
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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?
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>>I got Fedora 10 installed, but get an error on starting X windows.
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>>The only distro I got to work with a GUI on the machine is Mandrake
>>10...
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>  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.
>
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> Good luck!
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>  - Jonas
>
> Packaging Sugar for Debian, which has 486 kernel and openchrome driver,
> but Sugar is not currently up-to-date.
>

If you are recommending Debian, then please let me have a pointer at
what to download. How about Ubuntu (since that is a Debian derivative)
- would this work ?

Ashar