[H-GEN] Help request: Getting X to work on the old NetBoxes (VIA EPIA boards)

[David Seikel]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:43:18 +1000 (EST) Arjen Lentz
<arjen at lentz.com.au> wrote:

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> Hi all
> 
> Sandra Milne and I have been independently struggling with getting X
> to work on these old boxes. Been trying with various flavours of
> Ubuntu installs (alt-install, Lubuntu). I'm not an X magician though,
> it's quite likely using some proper startup options and creating a
> manual X config will do the trick. Anyone able/willing to help with
> this please?
> 
> The handful of boxes I have are intended to be kiddie computers, and
> Sandra has similar plans.
> 
> I believe this is the mainboard:
>   http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embedded/ProductDetail.jsp?id=399
> 
> 
> If anyone is able to provide email info that'll get this sorted,
> that'd be great. Otherwise, I'm in St Lucia (near the other end of
> Hawken Dr away from the uni) and generally work from home so
> visit=easy. It'd be much appreciated! thanks

Perhaps try Knoppix, or one of it's variants?  DSL might be worth
trying.

-- 
A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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