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Anyone out there gotten linux running on an X41 yet? I'm about 90% of the way there (typing this wirelessly on my x41 now) but still have a few snags getting 3D acceleration and sound working. If anyone has those solved I'd love to hear how you did it (and maybe get a peek at your xorg.conf!)

I would like to have a dual boot machine, Linux and Xp. I would even pay someone to set that up for me.

I'm about 90% done with mine -- when I am I'll write it up. Maybe you won't have to pay anyone at all.

viniosity: Which Linux distro are you using? I am trying to install Debian on my newly bought X41. Using the latest netinst CD-image, I only end with the message:

"Network autoconfiguration was successful. However, no default route was set:
the system does not know how to communicate with hosts on the Internet. This
will make it impossible to continue with the installation unless you have
all the Debian packages you need on the local network or on a local medium
such as CD-ROM.
The network autoconfiguration was successful. However, no default route was
set: the system does not know how to communicate with hosts on the Internet.
This will make it impossible to continue with the installation unless you
have the first official Debian CD-ROM, a 'Netinst' CD-ROM, or packages
available on the local network."

Trying to continue is of no use, because there is no net. The net is working fine on my other computer, also when using the netinst image.

I have also tried other Debian images where there is no need for a net during installation, but without success. The installation fails when detecting the harddisk, resulting in "no partitionable media found" during partitioning, maybe because the X41 isn't fully supported in the kernel of that image (dated 8-jun-2005).

Is there anyone who has successfully installed Debian (or any other Linux distro) on a X41 and wants to share some helpful hints?

Regards,
John

I've actually gotten Arch linux to work almost completely -- no bluetooth (didn't try but it should work), the driver for xorg wasn't working yet (it's in testing and should work in another month or two) and ACPI didn't work. I think ACPI will be solved soon.

Basically to get arch working download the base cd and run /arch/setup

They have a great wiki that will get you going on the install.. things to note about the x41 specifically is that the network card module is tg3 (arch auto detects it) and the wireless module is ipw2200 (you will need to do pacman -S ipw2200 to get that working). The rest was simple.

I didn't try debian but I had luck with Ubuntu Breezy colony 1 (less so with colony 2)

I'm leaving town for a while but I'll try to answer any q's you have.. else if you go with Arch the archlinux forums are super helpful!

viniosity, thank you for your reply!

I tried Ubuntu Breezy Colony and it works. I had only tried Ubuntu 5.04 before (didn't know about Breezy), but without success.

Thanks again,
John