[SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS

[David Leeming]

Hi James,

Well whatever it is, it highlights some practical experience of trying to
use SOAS, with blunders and all. It needs to be used by people with
technical and troubleshooting skills.  

David 


-----Original Message-----
From: quozl at laptop.org [mailto:quozl at laptop.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, 9 September 2015 1:00 p.m.
To: David Leeming
Cc: soas at lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] SOAS

Inline quoted reply.

On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 12:46:37PM +1100, David Leeming wrote:
> Well my old Toshiba laptop for instance, a Qosmio i7, a few years
> old but was a $2000 laptop when new. On this I can't boot and run
> SOAS. It never completes booting, you go through the name, colour,
> gender, school grade but then it just shows the blank screen with
> only the mouse cursor screen never getting as far as the Sugar Home
> View..

Isn't that bug #1240354 that we've all been talking about on
sugar-devel@?  If so, it has nothing to do with hardware
compatibility, you've just imagined it has.  ;-)

Try Fedora or 32-bit build instead?

> Tested on a few of these - Lenovo Q190 desktop computer - using the
> 32 bit or 64 bit version that worked (can't remember but we tried
> both), it boots OK but freezes after starting a few
> activities. Could that be the activity rather than the OS? 

Sounds like you tried a 32-bit build?

> As I said, on a very old Asus EEE PC 1005H model, it works very
> reliably every time.

Isn't that a 32-bit system?  (N270 lacks Intel 64 feature).

> Could it be the LinuxLive USB Creator installer that is to blame?

Not likely given available information.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/