Author Topic: How does PCLinuxOS run on a Tablet?  (Read 5769 times)

Offline rubentje1991

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Re: How does PCLinuxOS run on a Tablet?
« Reply #30 on: February 01, 2012, 12:32:56 PM »
As I understood the posts, the OS booted to a log in prompt which implies to me that the graphics driver needs to be set.

That should get the OS to a desktop.

Does that device have a tegra-graphical card?

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Re: How does PCLinuxOS run on a Tablet?
« Reply #31 on: February 01, 2012, 02:44:15 PM »
No it has the ATI Radeon 6250 graphics card.

The one with the tegra is the android model, A500.  This is the W500.  HUGE difference in specs.
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Re: How does PCLinuxOS run on a Tablet?
« Reply #32 on: February 01, 2012, 03:18:22 PM »
No it has the ATI Radeon 6250 graphics card.

The one with the tegra is the android model, A500.  This is the W500.  HUGE difference in specs.

Yep, I forgot about that....
Is it a special card for this device, with specific drivers - or should it work with the general ATI-drivers.... (maybe someone knows)

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Re: How does PCLinuxOS run on a Tablet?
« Reply #33 on: February 01, 2012, 05:45:25 PM »
If you don't get boot messages when pressing Esc during the boot process, either the keyboard is not recognised (blue bar continues and no response to pressing the key) or the system has not been able to connect to a virtual terminal (black screen, possibly with flashing underline cursor). If you can't get it to show a terminal (try pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1..6 after Esc just in case you're not seeing the right terminal) I can't hold out much hope.
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Re: How does PCLinuxOS run on a Tablet?
« Reply #34 on: February 02, 2012, 07:20:19 AM »
Pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1..6 did nothing.
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Re: How does PCLinuxOS run on a Tablet?
« Reply #35 on: February 02, 2012, 02:55:10 PM »
Please give a complete answer. We can't know the implications of pressing the function keys if we don't know exactly what happened before you pressed them. When did you press Esc? What happened? What did you see?

If we are going to be able to help we need more than one line answers like "It didn't work" or "it did nothing". we can't see your tablet so you need to tell us everything. Too many good people are trying to guess what you see. Please tell us.

I suspect at the end of all this we might have to conclude the answer to your question is "it doesn't, at least, not on the tablet you've got", but we're not there yet because you haven't given us enough information.
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Re: How does PCLinuxOS run on a Tablet?
« Reply #36 on: February 04, 2012, 07:34:34 AM »
I'm sorry but I'm not that adept in linux.
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Re: How does PCLinuxOS run on a Tablet?
« Reply #37 on: July 04, 2012, 04:58:33 PM »
Has anyone tried 'nomodeset' at boot-up as a kernel attribute?
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