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/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
