Installing Arch on Hannsnote

[Dario-27]

Ciao!

I want to share my (not so positive) experience about installing Arch Linux on
a Hannsnote netbook, which I have been unexpectedly given as a gift recently:)

I used the USB image, "burned" on a usb stick (usb-urned:)).
The install went fine except when it tried to install GRUB. The installer
hanged (don't know if it really hanged or if it just wanted to use all the CPU
for some time), but I went about it by manually installing GRUB, so this is
not really a problem.
The Intel 945GME is recognized, but all I get from X is a blank screen, if
using the intel driver or leaving the duty to a config-less X, or doing some
other tricks from the wiki and the forum. No errors whatsoeverm though, just a
black dead screen. The vesa driver worked fine, but stuck at 800x600.
Finally, I couldn't work out a way to use the wireless card, a Ralink 2860 or
something. I mean, not even the interface was shown, even if modules were - at
least to me -  correctly loaded.

Having tried Puppy Linux before with success, I knew that things should have
worked. Now, I installed Kubuntu Netbook edition and everything works out of
the box. Unfortunately it won't last long on my laptop, its interface is
scarying:)

I'd really like to archify my netbook. It came with XP preinstalled, but I
cannot use it without a Linux operating system, for practical and also
psychological reasons (no, not ideological:) ).

If someone had a similar experience to share, I'd be happy:)

Thanks in advance!!!

Dario
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[Xavier Chantry-2]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Dario <carotinobg@...> wrote:

>
> Having tried Puppy Linux before with success, I knew that things should have
> worked. Now, I installed Kubuntu Netbook edition and everything works out of
> the box. Unfortunately it won't last long on my laptop, its interface is
> scarying:)
>
> I'd really like to archify my netbook. It came with XP preinstalled, but I
> cannot use it without a Linux operating system, for practical and also
> psychological reasons (no, not ideological:) ).
>
> If someone had a similar experience to share, I'd be happy:)
>

If your goal was to install a Linux operating system, you reached it twice.

If it is to install Arch, you should check which version of your
wireless and graphical drivers Puppy and Ubuntu are using, and
eventual patches.

[Dario-27]

ciao!

In data sabato 07 novembre 2009 10:13:53, Xavier ha scritto:
> If your goal was to install a Linux operating system, you reached it twice.

Well, sure I did:)

> If it is to install Arch, you should check which version of your
> wireless and graphical drivers Puppy and Ubuntu are using, and
> eventual patches.

Yes, you're right, I'll discover what is ubuntu doing and try to replicate it
in arch.

ciao!

Carotinho
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