Netbooks are the new thing and I’m thinking about getting one this holiday season. Anyone running OpenSUSE on a Aspire One, Inspiron Mini 9 (has large HDD choices)or Eee PC? If so how is the performance, keyboard etc running OpenSUSE 11?
I have openSuse 11 running on Advent 4211 (rebranding of MSI Wind U100) with no problems at all. I had to tweak it a bit to make resolution work on 10’ screen and to compile Realtek drivers (not supported by default) but it all went smoothly. There is an excellent forum of MSI Wind users with a lot of information for different operating systems (including Ubuntu and opensuse) and all the possible upgrades and tweaks: http://msiwind.net/.
As for your other question, the keyboard, screen, wireless (after compiling the drivers), bluetooth, etc. are working perfectly fine.
Enjoy!
Hmm, I should reinstall 2 Targa Traveller, also MSI motherboard, but opensuse 11 crashes brutally on them!
It wouldn’t be a bed idea recompiling at least opensuse and perhaps also…
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The Gateway M series is a great laptop for suse, and the Dell inspiron series is as well. these laptops have integrated graphics and sound and suse really has no problems the mini 9 also can be ordered to run linux they have ubuntu on them and can be changed to suse the one difference is the digital hd are relativly small with the biggest only being 16 gig.
i run suse on gateway more than any others.
I’m trying to install OpenSuse 11 on an Inspiron Mini 9 from a Live CD. As you probably know, these Net-Books do not have a CD-ROM drive, so I used UNetBootin to load the linux boot config to my Windows XP hard drive, then reboot.
The linux kernal kicks off ok, but then fails with error:
“Failed to detect CD Drive!
rebootException: error consoles at Alt-F3/F4
rebootException: reboot in 120 seconds…”
Has anyone else seen this before? Is there are a work-around? I would much prefer to install this distro over others but am becoming too frustrated with this problem.
Thanks
Could you please give me the work around that you had to do to get the screen res to come out right, I’m haveing some difficulty w/ that.
thanks,
matt
What is opensuse doing to accommodate netbooks?
Mandriva 2009 works out the box perfectly on the most common netbooks.
i’d like to think i could buy a lenovo S10 and a usb DVD drive and install opensuse 11.1 with no problems, webcam and wireless working, and the correct resolution displayed…
eee PC supply only small distributives,as exapmle-Ubuntu.BUT.i loaded mandriva flash 2008 on eee PC.of course,I don’t buy the mandriva flash drive,I downloaded iso image of OS and installed it to 4 gb transcend flesh drive.
To answer the first question on this thread, I run OpenSuse KDE 11.3 on a HP/Compaq Mini 311 (11’’ screen). Installed it from the KDE Live disc. I am very content. Besides the usual manual addition of restricted software (NVidia, mp3 etc) there were no problems.
I tried the netbook user interface, but I am back with the usual KDE screen with a wide panel right on the screen, which makes for a clear dock for my favourite apps.
GijsH
How’s openSUSE performing on Samsung netbooks? will there be need to compile something, install some strange drivers, remove/change some hardware (for example wi-fi card)?
11.3 (and 11.2) work fine on my samsung nc10.
I also haven’t had any problems installing on my acer d150 netbook.
The latest live gnome/kde versions automatically create a persistent install on any free space remaining on the usb stick which is great. Also makes for easy install to a netbook, cnce most of the netbook hardware works ‘out the box’.
Running 11.3 KDE on my little Dell 10V-1011 everythings working fine. Switch over from Fedora 13 and seeing which distro i like better. Jury’s still out but it’s only been a couple of weeks.
I have an Acer Aspire One, ZG5, A110, running openSUSE 11.3 Live disk USB stick. For about 1 hour now.
Very slow. Keyboard freeze for up to 15 seconds. And even more time waiting when alt tabbing to anouther program.
Searching for ways to improve speed now. I’ve already turned of desktop effects. It helped. But think I should switch to XFCE instead of Gnome.
Anyone have any hints on speed performance?
SD cards are faster if you go for the 4X ones. If you can use some hard drive for swap, it will also help (you can add it to the fstab after it boots.
You can try LXDE, it doesn’t have the overhead of kde or gnome.
I have openSUSE 11.3 KDE4 on my aspire one N450 1.66GHz 1GB RAM – installed on the HDD. It seems to run almost as fast as my 64 bit, 4Gb, HP laptop.
I suspect the slowness you experience is from the ultra slow comms you will have with a USB stick, they’re so very slow.
PS @ Retor – install it on the hard drive, it does that no probs as a dual boot with windows.
I don’t think his netbook came with a large hdd - the A110 is an 8.9 in screen and I think the zg5 is an 8 gig ssd drive with 512meg RAM.
The other thing is to get more RAM.
I have a ‘mobile’ ubuntu that I installed permanently to a 16gig sd card which works quicker than a pen drive and is perfectly adaquate speed wise.
At least the acer boots from sd card, so it has the advantage that you don’t have anything sticking out of the pc.
oic thanks whych
I have a friend who wanted OpenSUSE on his netbook. It’s an Acer Aspire One, and the install went fairly smoothly. He wanted to dual boot between Win7 Home Premium and OpenSUSE, so that went fairly well. I did have to tweak the settings to make the display look right. But the built-in drivers for the onboard graphics worked just fine. Acer Netbooks are surprisingly decent for Linux installs, so long as you don’t intend to use them for servers.
Oh, I forgot to mention. I’ve found KDE and XFCE to be the best. Gnome does drag a little much. Try KDE and see if that doesn’t improve the speed.
Well, I installed openSUSE as recommended, and it is swooshing along impressively. Doubt it can match the boot up speed of Linpus, but everything else is so much sweeter.
I was warned at installation that 0,5 GB of RAM might cause trouble, but none came along.