[K12OSN] Acer / nVidia ION video?

Almquist Burke burke at thealmquists.net
Sat Apr 10 19:23:32 UTC 2010


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On Apr 7, 2010, at 9:33 PM, Joseph Bishay wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We just received a donation of a brand new Acer Aspire R1600  (specs
> here: http://www.acersupport.com/acerpanam/desktop/2009/acer/aspire/ 
> AspireR1600/AR1600sp2.shtml
> ) for our K12Linux lap (Fedora 10 based)
>
> I was only able to get it to boot and X to run if I specificed that
> the client uses the VESA graphics driver.  The graphics card inside it
> is NVIDIA ON LE graphics solution. Does anyone have any experience
> with this machine or chipset? I'm hoping that we might get more of
> these machines donated to us, but it would be a shame if they didn't
> work.
>

What driver does it try to use if you don't specify VESA? What about  
on another distro's live CD?
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