[IAEP] VIA C3 based laptop

[Lucian Branescu]

AFAIK, ubuntu x86-32 is in fact i386 (unless they changed it recently).

For debian, try this http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/

2009/5/19 Ashar Iqbal <s.ashar.iqbal at gmail.com>:
> 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?
>>>
>>>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.
>>
>
> 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
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