Various Thoughts and Experiences with Linux
Blog Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110, AMD Turion 64, ATI Radeon 200M display adapter, Broadcom wired ethernet adapter, Atheros 5000 wireless network adapter. Fujitsu Lifebook S6510, Intel Core2 Duo, 965 GM display adapter, Marvell wired ethernet adapter...
[November 13, 2008, 13:38]
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]
Some Days You Eat the Bear...
Blog The Lifebook S2110, which can sometimes be difficult because of the AMD CPU and ATI graphic controller. Third attempt, the Lifebook S6510. and some days the bear eats you. Sigh. Today was going to be a good day.
[April 2, 2009, 8:11]
PCLinuxOS 2009.1 Released
Blog Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 (Intel): No problems. Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110 (AMD): No problems. 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.
[March 13, 2009, 13:45]
S6510/Vista vs. S2110/XP Professional
Blog Lifebook S6510.Lifebook S2110 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]
Fedora 10 Released
Blog I have installed from the Live CD on my Lifebook S6510, and it seems to work very well. However, I have also tried to install it on my Lifebook S2110, so far without much success. I suspect that the problem is with the driver for the ATI display...
[November 26, 2008, 12:24]
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]
The Range of Linux Distributions
Blog Comment Likewise, it works flawlessly on my Lifebook S2110, which has the "dreaded ATI graphic adapter". I had significant problems even on my "normal" Lifebook S6510, with an Intel CPU, graphic adapter and wireless interface, and it wouldn't even make a...
[December 16, 2008, 7:37]
Mandriva Linux - Wonderful and Maddening
Blog Mandriva seemed to do an excellent job of identifying and loading drivers for the hardware in my Lifebook S2110 (AMD Turion 64) laptop. I will continue testing it, and eventually I will try installing it on my main laptop (Lifebook S6510) to see...
[July 1, 2008, 11:07]
Mandriva One 2010 RC2
Blog The first of those was my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510, which is a pretty standard Intel Core2 Duo CPU / 965 graphic controller based system, so I don't see why the hardware would confuse it. The other two were both AMD CPU / ATI graphic systems.
[October 14, 2009, 14:12]
Mandriva Spring 2009 Released
Blog I have loaded it on all four of my laptops and netbooks (Lifebook S6510, Lifebook S2110, HP 2133 WXGA, HP 2133 WSVGA), and I am quite impressed. That is particularly impressive when you consider that two of them are netbooks with VIA Chrome 9 video...
[April 30, 2009, 15:38]
Ubuntu on Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog Having had so much success with Ubuntu on the older "test" laptop (Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110), and not expecting to want to try Vista on the newer Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 again anytime soon, I decided to try installing Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron...
[June 5, 2008, 9:16]
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]
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]
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny) Released
Blog Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110: AMD Turion 64 CPU, ATI display controller. Fujitsu Lifebook S6510: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 965GM display controller. The long-awaited Debian 5.0 release, code named "lenny", was released over the weekend.
[February 16, 2009, 13:03]
Ubuntu Jaunty - Positive and Negative
Blog I have tried it with both my Lifebook S6510 (Intel 965 display controller) and my Lifebook S2110 (ATI Radeon Xpress 200 display controller), and both of them handle two displays, not mirrored, just fine.
[April 29, 2009, 17:21]
