![]() The simple solution is to pick them up from the openSuSE Build Service, but be sure to set it to look for the Factory version, not 11.2, as they have different X.org versions, so the older drivers will not work. That makes installation a bit more tricky, because once again the openchrome drivers are not included in the base distribution. OpenSuSE 11.3 Milestone 7: Another pre-release, this one has not yet reached the Release Candidate stage. I hate getting older and losing my memory. It might have needed the Broadcom drivers to be added. It got the screen resolution wrong initially, but all I had to do was go into the /etc/X11/nf file and comment out all of the "Subsection "Display" lines, and the X server then got the resolution correct on its own. Mandriva 2010.1 (Spring) RC2: This is still a Release Candidate, but it installed and worked easily. I think I might have had to fetch the Broadcom drivers for this one as well, but to be honest once I had them installed the first time (on Fedora), I just copied the contents of /lib/firmware/b43 from there to the other partitions as necessary. The good news is, once that was done the display worked just fine. I finally found the latest openchrome driver in the Mepis Community Repository, but even then it didn't show up in Synaptic when I added that repo, I had to actually download the package files and install it that way. The biggest problem was the Chrome 9 graphic adapter, there is no driver for it in the distribution or MEPIS repositories, and the one in the Debian repositories is old (902) and doesn't work properly. SimplyMEPIS 8.5: This is another of my personal favorites, but it took a bit more effort that the previous three. Again, the only thing missing was the Broadcom drivers, and there is a good description on the Fedora Unity community web page of how to fetch and install the drivers. I included it here primarily because it is the distribution that I prefer to use, and as an example of the "Standard" Gnome desktop on the Mini-Note.įedora 13 (Goddard): Known for being innovative and at the leading edge of Linux development, it was no surprise that this distribution installed just as easily as Ubuntu and Mint. Linux Mint 9 (Isadora): As a derivative of Ubuntu 10.04, this installs and configures in almost exactly the same way. The alternative, of course, would be to download the package to another computer, transfer the files to the 2133 and then install from that. ![]() One perhaps not totally obvious note, you have to be connected to the Internet in order to use the Hardware Drivers utility to download and install the Broadcom driver, so make sure you set up either a wired network or a wireless broadband connection first. Very easy installation, the only thing that didn't work straight away was the Broadcom wireless adapter, and Ubuntu notified me that proprietary drivers are available for that. ![]() Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). I would like to emphasize that all of these screen shots were taken on the 2133, they show the actual results of the installation of each of these distributions. I have noted the peculiarities of each installation below. ![]() All were loaded from Live USB media, all installed and configured quite easily and all handled the hardware with varying degrees of tweaking and human intervention. So far I have loaded the following six Linux distributions. The HP Mini-Note is not the easiest netbook to support, with its VIA C7-M CPU, Chrome 9 graphic controller and Broadcom 4312 wireless networking adapter.
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