On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > 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 _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
