Fedora 13 and Acer Aspire One

[Dennis J.]

On 02/24/2010 03:35 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Dennis J. <dennisml at conversis.de
> <mailto:dennisml at conversis.de>> wrote:
>
>     Is Fedora supposed to be able to run on an Aspire One netbook? I
>     bootet a
>     recent rawhide snapshot which seems to work well but when X start I just
>     get a black screen and a busy pointer.
>
>
> It should work very well but it depends on your particular model. If you
> have one with a Atom Z series chip you'll have problems but all the rest
> should work out of the box for basically everything. Let me know your
> model number and I can tell you more. The soon to be released F-13 alpha
> should work fine.

It's a 751h model with an Atom Z520 CPU. I tested an F12 live-cd and that 
works but the F13 one doesn't. Unfortunately the graphics chip doesn't seem 
to be supported which makes the desktop extremely slow. I found that the 
driver was apparently once available in RPMFusion but it was never released 
for F12+. Trying to rebuild the psb-kmod just gave me a message that it 
doesn't like the i386 architecture.

Regards,
   Dennis