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RE: Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Beta
Blog Comment I have now also installed the Karmic Beta on my Fujitsu-Siemens S2110, which has an AMD Turion CPU and ATI Radeon graphic adapter, once again with no problems. Also worth mentioning, the HP 1010ez has an ATI Radeon HD 3410 graphic controller, which...
[October 12, 2009, 9:56 by J.A. Watson]
RE: Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog Comment Seriously, the problem has S2110 (ATI) problem has appeared with the Mandriva 2009.0 distribution, the 2008 distributions installed just fine - and I suspect that is why PCLinuxOS still installs smoothly on it, because it doesn't look to me as if...
[December 18, 2008, 8:15 by J.A. Watson]
Various Thoughts and Experiences with Linux
Blog It will sort of install on the S2110; it is still not happy when booting the Live CD, because of the ATI display adapter. It won't even load on the S2110, I suspect because of the ATI display adapter.
[November 13, 2008, 13:38 in Reviews Blog by J.A. Watson]
openSolaris 2008.11
Blog Oh, and by the way, it is using the "ati" driver, not the proprietary "fglrx" driver, pretty much what I expected.openSolaris on the x86 platform uses the GRUB boot loader, so I wanted to look at how that was configured.
[March 20, 2009, 12:13 in Reviews Blog by J.A. Watson]
Mandriva 2009 Release Available
Blog On my older laptop, a Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110 (AMD Turion 64, ATI Radeon 200), I couldn't get the Mandriva One KDE version to boot.it seemed to get about two thirds of the way through, and then just hung.
[October 10, 2008, 8:45 in Reviews Blog by J.A. Watson]
openSUSE Installation, DVD vs. LiveCD
Blog Over the holidays I put a larger disk drive in my Lifebook S2110 (AMD/ATI) laptop, and reinstalled everything from scratch. By the way, openSUSE installed and runs extremely well on the laptop with AMD CPU, ATI graphic card, Broadcom wired network...
[January 5, 2009, 14:16 in Reviews Blog by J.A. Watson]
RE: Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog Comment "The best news for me is that it installs flawlessly on my Lifebook S2110, without stumbling over the ATI display adapter as the new Mandriva release does. How's Mandriva stumble? Sorry if we covered this before.
[December 18, 2008, 6:33 by AdamW]
RE: Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog Comment Mandriva One 2009.0 KDE then installed flawlessly on the Lifebook S2110 (AMD/ATI). @AdamW - You are, as usual, correct. It is exactly the problem described in the link you gave, and I was able to work around it with the procedure described there.
[December 19, 2008, 8:30 by J.A. Watson]
Fedora 11
Blog Once I got that worked out, I was able to install Fedora 11 on both of my notebooks (Fujitsu S6510, Intel, and Fujitsu-Siemens S2110, AMD/ATI), and it works very well. Support for all of the various integrated devices and controllers is just fine...
[June 28, 2009, 8:18 in Reviews Blog by J.A. Watson]
RE: The Range of Linux Distributions
Blog Comment Likewise, it works flawlessly on my Lifebook S2110, which has the "dreaded ATI graphic adapter". @Peter Judge - Thanks, that means a lot to me coming from you.amosbatto - Thanks for reading and commenting.
[December 16, 2008, 8:37 by J.A. Watson]
Good (Linux) Things on the Horizon
Blog In fact, it has already become my preferred version on the S2110 (AMD/ATI) laptop. We seem to be in a particularly good period for Linux at the moment. We've recently gotten the Mandriva 2009.0 and Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex releases, and both of...
[November 19, 2008, 11:03 in Jamie's Random Musings by J.A. Watson]
Three SMALL Linux Distributions
Blog Failed to boot properly the first time on the S2110, because of the ATI display adapter. It didn't complain or get confused by the ATI display adapter, and it was the only one of the three which actually had a Swiss German keyboard option.
[January 16, 2009, 13:59 in Reviews Blog by J.A. Watson]
Dream Linux 3.5 - Results and Summary
Blog Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110: This laptop has an ATI display adapter, and although the Dream Linux 3.5 distribution doesn't appear to include the proprietary fglrx driver, it comes up just fine on the standard ati driver.
[March 9, 2009, 9:50 in Reviews Blog by J.A. Watson]
PCLinuxOS 2009.1 Released
Blog The ATI Radeon 200 display adapter comes up, using the fglrx driver. The ati driver is also included, you can switch to it and it works just fine. There has been some rumbling about it having been abandoned or dormant, because the last major...
[March 13, 2009, 13:45 in Reviews Blog by J.A. Watson]
SimplyMEPIS 8.0 Released
Blog I have now also installed SimplyMEPIS 8.0 on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 (Intel) and my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2210 (AMD/ATI), also with very little trouble. MEPIS announced their SimplyMEPIS 8.0 release over the weekend.
[February 24, 2009, 9:26 in Reviews Blog by J.A. Watson]
Mandriva Spring 2009 Released
Blog That is particularly impressive when you consider that two of them are netbooks with VIA Chrome 9 video chips and very small screens, and another one has an ATI video chip which had been a problem for the Mandriva distribution even in the 2009.0...
[April 30, 2009, 15:38 in Reviews Blog by J.A. Watson]
S6510/Vista vs. S2110/XP Professional
Blog Intel X3100 Grahpics.ATI Mobility Radeon Xpress 200 display.display It's time for a side-by-side comparison. What I want to concentrate on here is the difference between Windows Vista and Windows XP Professional.
[January 9, 2008, 13:06 in Vista Upgrade Blog by J.A. Watson]
The Range of Linux Distributions
Blog I have heard the same comments on other blog posts, and in fact I have seen the same sort of "issues" with my Lifebook S2110 (often because of the ATI display adapter). A comment from Tezzer to my recent blog post about Two New Linux Beta...
[December 15, 2008, 10:12 in Reviews Blog by J.A. Watson]
Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog The best news for me is that it installs flawlessly on my Lifebook S2110, without stumbling over the ATI display adapter as the new Mandriva release does. If you're interested in new Linux distributions, here are a couple of new Betas that I have...
[December 12, 2008, 9:37 in Reviews Blog by J.A. Watson]
openSuSE 11.1 Released
Blog Installation was smooth and easy on both of my laptops - meaning that it didn't have any problems with the Lifebook S2110 and its ATI display driver. The openSuSE Project made their 11.1 release available yesterday.
[December 19, 2008, 8:43 in Reviews Blog by J.A. Watson]
