Hi,
Since I have joined Ubuntu GNOME Team in July 2013 until few days ago, I had no 'real hardware' to test Ubuntu GNOME on and had to do that on a virtual machines. Now that my HP Laptop is no longer working (maybe dead forever) and I have finally found 2GB RAM stick that I can use on my ASUS F3F Laptop which had only 512MB RAM that is not enough to run Ubuntu GNOME - which was like a great news to me - I was so sad and surprised that I actually couldn't even run the Live Session on that machine
It is 32-bit machine so I did try both
Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 i386
and
Ubuntu GNOME Trusty Tahr Beta 1 i386
I got the exact same result when I tried to boot from a LiveUSB created by UNetbootin.
This is what happened:
1- Plug the LiveUSB
2- Turn the machine ON
3- Enter BIOS
4- Make sure the laptop boots from the USB
5- Reboot
6- I do see this:
But not really this, I actually see UNetbootin Menu which has similar optons
7- Select "Check Disk for errors/defects"
8- It gives me 'No' errors so everything is good
9- Select "Try without installation"
10- When I get to the Live Desktop, it is empty and nothing but the default wallpaper of Ubuntu GNOME
The same thing happened on both Saucy (stable) and Trusty (development).
If I choose "Install", it got stuck on the first steps and IIRC (If I Remember Correctly), it stopped on the partitions screen as I always choose "Something else".
Hardware Details of my machine:
http://phillw.net/hardware/p7x41Lgx
Right from: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Hardware
That is actually one of my testing real machines.
Note that other systems like Lubuntu 13.10 is working just fine on that machine.
I had a previous chat with Tim (Ubuntu GNOME main developer) and IIRC, i think he mentioned something about 3D? that the Graphics Card should have 3D capabilities? not 100% sure, to be honest.
Anyone else have the same machine and/or specifications?
No, I didn't try Ubuntu as I have stopped using it since 11.04 so didn't try it. Same goes for Kubuntu, I never use it (last time I did, it was Kubuntu 10.04).
The systems that I use are:
Ubuntu GNOME, Xubuntu and Lubuntu. Which are the very same systems that I'm using to convert my neighbours to Linux.
I got the extra RAM from a neighbour who broke her own laptop because her husband was trying to get the HDD out!
Thoughts?
Thank you so much, in advance
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