Fedora 13 and Acer Aspire One

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 05:07 +0100, Dennis J. wrote:
> 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.

I maintain psb. It doesn't work on F12. There's no way it can unless
someone who actually knows how to code ports it to X server 1.7. It just
isn't written to work with F12's X.org.
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