[IAEP] VIA C3 based laptop

[Ashar Iqbal]

I tried Soas 2 beta  (dated 14 A0ril 2009) burned onto a CD.  X
windows does not start on the C3 based laptop.

I get a login prompt and then when I try ´śtartx´ there are some
messages ending in
"fatal server error
 no screens found"

The CD works fine on other machines. So it is no go for this machine.

I have been wanting to work with Debian/Ubuntu for a while and this
seems to be a good time to try it.

Thanks for all the replies. Sorry for the delay in getting back to the
list - my CD writer died and spoilt a few CDs before I figured out
what the problem was.

Ashar


On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would try running Sugar on a Stick as a means of debugging.
>
> -walter
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Ashar Iqbal <s.ashar.iqbal at gmail.com> 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...
>>
>> Ashar
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