Hi Russell, > I just bought a Dell mini 10 to try SOAS on. I usually run SOAS on an > ASUS 701 and it all works lovely. On the Dell mini 10 the trackpad is > incredibly (unusabley) sensitive. Also the wireless networking is not > working. I bought the mini 10 with the upgraded Dell wireless 1510 > half mini card (802.1n). If I boot into the pre-installed Ubuntu 8.04 > the wireless networking works (and the trackpad is not mental).
I presume you got the Dell Mini 10v (not the plain 10). The plain 10 has a gma-500 Poulsbo graphics chipset and isn't supported. The 10v has the well supported gma-950 chipset. > My questions are: > > 1) Is there a HLC for SOAS? Not sure what a HLC is. > 2) Is there a way to set the trackpad sensitivity with SOAS? Not sure its possible from sugar but you might be able to run gnome-mouse-properties from the terminal and set the trackpad stuff there. > 3) Is there a way to trouble shoot the wireless network card issue? With regards to the wireless the Broadcom chipset isn't well supported but you might like to try to install the b43-openfwwf package as its a firmware that supports some broadcom chips. "yum install -y b43-openfwwf" I would be very interested to know if/how it works with that chipset. I've also heard of people buying an intel wifi m-pci card off ebay and swapping them out.. > I'm not a total linux noob but I am not a sys admin or a linux systems > developer (I've learnt through struggling through really). I've > googled for SOAS on the dell mini 10. There are some articles about > the mini 9 but nothing I have seen is relevant to my issues. The mini 9 and the 10v are quite similar hardware wise so there should be some useful information. > If I get it sorted I will certainly write up a blog post about it so > that the Dell mini 10 can be seen as a viable platform for Sugar. At > less then 200 quid for a 10 inch netbook it would seem to be a good > target platform. Excellent. It would also be useful if you could register a smolt profile for it so we can fully document the specs. You can do this by "yum install -y smolt" and then running the command smoltSendProfile to register the hardware. If then provides you a public url. Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel