Linux on RoverBook

[Tsukasa]

I have RoverBook H590.
It's parameters:
P4 3.2 GHz HT
ATI Radeon 9600 Mobile (M10) 128 MB
Operative memory - 512 MB

I tried to install ASPLinux v10 on this laptop, but I had 3 problems:
1) initialing stopped at the "cups" daemon (as I know it's for printers, but I needn't this daemon, because I have no printer)
2)The distro couldn't detect monitor's parameters (the problem partly solved with command "gtf")
3)I couldn't use graphic mode, only command line mode (may be it's because I didn't know the command "startx")

Can you help me to install this distro or advise the best distro for laptops?

[seablade]

Try Ubuntu.

Truthfully there are tons of distros that will probably work, but Ubuntu I tend to have the best luck with as do many here.

Seablade

[abf]

i am with seablade on this, sounds like you're almost noobish (dont take it as a bad thing) ubuntu is really the way to go (hell, i've been using linux for years and currently run ubuntu on my laptop). Dapper has really solved many of the speed, stability, and other other issues seen in previous releases...so give it a whirl.

Your hardware really doesn't seem that complicated...unless you wanna post your lspci for us ;) just to make sure. FGLRX (ati drivers) are rather simple to get kicking these days, wireless should not be a problem, and you can always use BUM to disable uneeded daemons from starting.

My other picks include PCLinuxOS .92 (although its a tad out-dated till .93 is out)
Arch (its the speed man, i tell you its like crack...requires work to get running)
Gentoo (for the uber g33ky.)


EDIT:
speaking of which, just did the BUM thing (i've been meaning to get around to it soon) on my install, ram use for the BASE system (after a fresh boot) when down from 111mb to 105mb ....impressive. on top of that boot time went down about 10 or 15 seconds. i disabled a total of 12 daemons, nvidia-kernel, bluezutils, ppp, rsync, rppp (?), cups, hplip, etc.... pretty much dial-up, printer, bluetooth.

[seablade]

i disabled a total of 12 daemons, nvidia-kernel, bluezutils, ppp, rsync, rppp (?), cups, hplip, etc.... pretty much dial-up, printer, bluetooth.


Uh Nvidia-kernel is needed for 3d:)

Seablade

[abf]

....for nvidia cards. i got ati buddy


munky@lappy:~$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9700 Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.5814 (8.25.18)



munky@lappy:~$ glxgears -iacknowledgethatthistoolisnotabenchmark
15909 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3181.773 FPS
15826 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3165.158 FPS
15828 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3165.407 FPS
15827 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3165.219 FPS


and just ran some ET @ 40-50fps 1024x786

[seablade]

Ahh ok, then yea dont have a clue why that would load:) Guess its just for compatibility with other computers.

Seablade