Posted on March 5, 2008 by Graham Dinsdale
As I mentioned in my post on installing Xubuntu on the MicroClient, the default video driver that Xubuntu goes for is VESA. While this at least works, screen re-drawing and animation can be painfully slow when the CPU is under heavy load.
The video chipset is the VIA CX700M, specifically the “3157″ integrated video processor. The [...]
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Posted on March 4, 2008 by Graham Dinsdale
As requested by pbunnun in the comments here is a kernel dump via dmesg from my MicroClient Sr. Hope this is of some use to someone out there.
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.22-14-generic (buildd@terranova) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 (Ubuntu 2.6.22-14.52-generic)
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Posted on February 27, 2008 by Graham Dinsdale
So for the last couple of days I have been preparing and installing Xubuntu 7.10 on my MicroClient Sr.
I had a similar idea to Nicolas314 over on the forum in that I planned to install by using a USB key, because the MicroClient doesn’t have an optical drive. The basic idea of this process is [...]
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