I just got a TC-1000 this weekend and here are some of my experiences
setting up Linux.
Distribution -> Fedora Core 3
USB Pen Drive Boot
Copied boot image to pen drive dd if=bootdisk.iso of=/dev/sdf
Wouldn't boot off of usb drive.(Have read that it needs to be plugged in
and moved above hard drive in bios but haven't tried)
PXE Boot
After setting up DHCP and tftp server boots fine from PXE
select text installation. Video is corrupted during installation (This
is a known bug that will come up later when setting up video)
Rest of the installation went fine.
I'm not sure if there is a problem with my machine but I get vertical
lines (looking at the screen in landscape orientation). During the
curses based install in on the bios setting screen. Seems to come and go
depending on the location of the cursor. Is this a normal problem?
Anyone else seen this? The video is fine when X is running.
At boot type 'e' and edit boot line to remove rhgb and quiet and append
"init 3"
rhgb (redhat graphical boot) corrupts screen.
After booting up, log in and edit xorg.conf. Change HorizSync to 28-96
and VertRefresh 43-120. and Modes to "1024x768". Add "Option NoAccel" to
section Device. If you don't you get blocky icons and and screen
freezes. This is an issue with i810 driver as well. X will come up but
performance sucks.
lspci lists the card as 0:05.0 -> this is a pci card?
The performance with the vesa driver is better and works fine. Screen
rotation works fine with nv driver with "Option "Rotation" "CCW""
Tried nvidia's latest binary driver. Wouldn't work.
Wireless works fine with the installation of the firmware rpm.
That's it for now....
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