Netbooks

Revision as of 22:08, 26 November 2010

Users

Frequently Asked Questions

Netbook FAQ (work in progress).

Devices

Officially Supported and Tested Hardware

In general MeeGo v1.0 for Netbook will run on Atom® based Netbooks and has been tested on the following platforms,

• Asus EeePC 901, 1000H, 1005HA, 1008HA, EeePC 1005PE, Eeetop ET1602, EeePC S101
• Dell mini10v, Inspiron Mini 1012
• Acer Aspire One D250, AO532-21S, Revo GN40, Aspire 5740-6025
• Lenovo S10
• MSI U130, AE1900
• HP mini 210-1044
• Toshiba NB302

Note: please do not add to the list above unless you are in an official QA role in MeeGo.

Unofficially Supported Devices

List of MeeGo compatible Devices submitted by users.

Requirements:
CPU: Intel Atom or Intel Core 2 CPU (support for SSSE3)
Note: MeeGo will not work on non-SSSE3 CPUs
Platforms with the GMA-500, Nvidia, or ATI Graphics chipset are not supported.

Installation

Download and Install MeeGo 1.1

Advanced Topics

Dual booting

[[1]]

Editing boot menu

[[2]]

Non-free Codecs (MP3,MPEG4, H264)

These are not installed by default. Until someone packages these codecs as RPM's, you must compile them from source. Compile estimated time on netbook hardware is 1-1.5 hrs.

Compile Totem + gstreamer or vlc [[3]]

Developers

Developer Guide

Instructions for N900 / ARM based devices

Useful developer pages:

• Git Infrastructure
• MeeGo Login
• Meego IRC
• MeeGo Bug Jars
• MeeGo and Maemo6
• Google Summer of Code
• MeeGo Conference 2010
• Glossary