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On 10/12/12 21:11, Neil Winchurst wrote:
On 10/12/12 20:07, tom wrote:Just got one of these: http://www.ebuyer.com/407538-zoostorm-desktop-pc-7873-1076 and have tried several installs but nothing gets going properly. As soon as X pops up the screen goes into power save and all is dumb. Tried: xubuntu 12.10 (both 64 and 32 bit) , mini.iso for 12.10 installing xubuntu. Mint 12 DVD. How can I tell whats wrong so I can fix it or send it back. Tom te tom te tomStrange. I bought a zoostorm laptop for my daughter and installed Xubuntu 12.04 with no trouble. That was in July and so far no problems. Hope you can sort it out... Neil
I think it might be related to the chipset. This Zoostorm PC has an AMD A8 APU which is one of the new processors with integrated GPU on the die. They're fairly new (I think they've only been about about 3 or 4 months) so it's possible that support is still catching up.
My work laptop has one too, it's a Samsung machine and installing Mint 13 with the AMD drivers in the repository it would work but come up with a watermark on the screen saying "unsupported hardware". This is what I expected on the Zoostorm desktops but unfortunately they weren't as well behaved, but they do work with a bit of fiddling (I'm guessing it's one of those things when a newer distro comes out with a newer version of X and newer video drivers it'll work fine).
Neil, has your daughter's laptop got an Intel processor? Maybe her machine has better supported hardware (I find from experience that Intel graphics generally work out of the box, well that's been my experience with Intel graphics, not sure if this is still the case with the newer Ivybridge Core i series CPUs.
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