Ubuntu 10.10

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Gosho
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Ubuntu 10.10

Post by Gosho »

Hello,

has anyone given (K)ubuntu 10.10 a try on the fitpc2i?
Any feedback would be very welcome!

Cheers

fly
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Re: Ubuntu 10.10

Post by fly »

I haven't tried it, but at least gma500 drivers are being worked on. See [1]

[1] http://fit-pc2.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=1837

kdpcb
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Re: Ubuntu 10.10

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I have spent a couple of days to get it working.

To get it working it needs an extra option in xorg.conf:

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Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver	"psb"
	Option      "NoPanel" "true"
EndSection
The Option "NoPanel" "true" is apparently required when no LVDS is in use.

fly
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Re: Ubuntu 10.10

Post by fly »

You could have had a look at the xorg.conf provided by Compulab themselves [1]. Do you have any issues with maverick and psb (besides xv)? Did you try video acceleration?

[1] http://fit-pc2.com/download/ubuntu/files/xorg.conf

Gosho
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Re: Ubuntu 10.10

Post by Gosho »

Thanks for this info, it's gonna be very useful! I will try the installation asap, and report back my findings.
Does Ubuntu 10.10 run smoothly on the fitpc2i? I'm planning on installing Kubuntu instead, but I assume it will not make much difference in performance.

Cheers

kdpcb
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Re: Ubuntu 10.10

Post by kdpcb »

Sorry, clean forgot about the Compulab xorg.conf as I have been following development on

http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showt ... 5&page=232

in order to check if the gma500 driver would work under ubuntu 10.10.
There have been so many changes to the xorg.conf options that I tried with the installed one first.

And I have not tried video acceleration.
Might try later as dragging windows around is sluggish.

Glxgears gives 600 - 900 frames in 5 sec in the small window and around 160 frames 5 sec when running 1980x1080.
Watching tv in Firefox flash is not a pleasure as it is too jerky to look at for more than a few minutes.

I have not tested wireless under ubuntu 10.10, but it worked under 10.04 so I assume it is a question of configuring it.
Lirc was tested long ago, but at present I have no use for it.

fly
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Re: Ubuntu 10.10

Post by fly »

The fitpc2 wireless using rt3090 is not working with the default driver provided by the kernel (once again...) I was told. However, compiling the driver from source works fine. I expect the ppa from Markus Heberling ( https://launchpad.net/~markus-tisoft/+archive/rt3090 ) might be updated to maverick one day.

Gosho
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Re: Ubuntu 10.10

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Since I am stuck with a rev 1.1 i cannot find the HD when booting 10.10... Is there somehow a workaround?

Thanks in advance!

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Gosho
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Re: Ubuntu 10.10

Post by Gosho »

no reaction? I installed on the flash drive, but I cannot detect my sata HD after loading the kernel module (pata_sch). Any ideas?

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