Hi,
I’m using windows xp, and i would like to use Open Suse. But i red on different website, that my graphical card wasn’t supported, it’s a GMA 500. Can i use opensuse with this card?
Thanks.
what do want to put openSUSE on and which release do you think about?
I’ve got openSUSE 11.0 running on a Wind U115 for few days, which has a GMA500 built-in, because I found out it’s much faster by default than Ubuntu 9.04.
Resolution is at 800x600 for now.
There is a Wind_U115 repo with GMA 500 driver, BUT only for 11.1 by default, which can be updated to Kernel 2.6.27.23-0.1.
since kernel 2.6.39, there is a native support of the gma 500 poulsbo graphic card. Before one could only use vesa definitions, that is 1024x768 on acer one netbook, but now we can use the full 1366x768 definition (no 3D accel AFAIK)
Ha, glad to hear! I started using SuSE back with version 6.9 or so. I’ve been using it until I moved by the end of 2009 (I suppose I got until 8.0) and needed a netbook instead of a desktop as there was simply no room. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get SuSE to work on it properly due to this issue. I moved to linux mint which uses the ubuntu repositories and ubuntu and ubuntu (or anything related) seemed the only way to make it work. I’m not 100% happy with my latest mint upgrade and will be happy to give SuSE a try again on my Acer Aspire One 751h :).
there is still no hardware acceleration and I can’t read HD video on this computer, so I give up and buy a new one 
openSUSE works, but not for video on this computer. the processo also really lack power, even an SSD do not give results
jdd
Unfortunately I just found out that the device is broken. The body has literally been cracked for quite a while, but last week some water got spilled over it while it was in my bag. I dried the computer and all seemed fine, but now I found out that sound doesn’t work properly anymore.
As far as graphics acceleration is concerned, I suppose this never worked, but obviously I never knew what to expect either. gst123 was able to play video, but that wasn’t in HD. I always felt that graphics were worse and slower than on the computer I bought in 2001. So I guess now that graphics is never going to be great and sound is broken as well, it may be time to move on. The thing is, so many of us got tricked into this device only to find out later that it wasn’t going to work properly, I don’t want to make the same mistake twice and pay a few hundreds for a laptop with unsupported hardware. I guess I’ve got to really delve into this stuff again… From what I heard, Dell makes their laptops so that they can run Ubunu, so their hardware would be a safe bet for any linux distro I guess.