so i installed OpenSuse 10.3 on the fujitsu u1010...
(i remember some zaurus time spent flashing forth and back between zaurus distros ;)
well,
at first, i'm a bit disapointed about OpenSuse : i had to fight with installation (harddrive auto-partitionning process went bad), then after the installation wifi (damned atheros chipset!) and bluetooth (not yet working atm...).i was much more impressed with Ubuntu which made the fujitsu work out of the box, with my wifi and bluetooth mouse !
so after installing madwifi and madwifi-kmp module (thanks google;) and rebooting, wifi is finally working... but now opensuse is doing some heavy patches download and installation (there was a red question mark in the tray icon bar) and it seems it will last for a long time.... so i'm heading bed
so far here is a quick summary:
-wifi : working
-bluetooth : to be tested
-touchscreen : not working (dough!)
-cf reader : working
-external monitor : not tested
-lan : tested (happily i could use it for online updating!)
-fingerprint: not tested (i saw there's an utility in the menu)
-sound : working (at least for startup and shutdown sound!)
i'll try to continue tomorrow but if something is going wrong again i'll definitely switch to ubuntu
****************** one night later ***********************
-suspend/hibernate : doesn't work :( at least out of the box... when i try suspend, it just goes into screen saving mode... when i try hibernate it wants to do something apparently but it doesn't hibernate... perhaps some tweaks are needed...again...
-since yesterday after applying latest auto patches, it told me that i had to restart the system; so i tried and ... it hanged!! whow that's not terrible...
another strange thing : after reboot i now cannot access the bottom menu bar ! it is as if the screen was 1024x768... only thing i can do is open a console , launch yast, set the screen again, it accepts the 1024x600 but on restart same problem......dough :( the good piece of news is that external monitor does work, in 1024x768, and there i can access the menu bar.
about touchscreen, there's a tablet setting window and a touchscreen setting window that i tried to activate...with no luck :(
like here :
http://www.users.bigpond.com/vkelim/SuSE_notes/node167.htmlanyway, looking at opensuse HCL, i cannot find the fujitsu u1010:
http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Laptops/Fujitsumoreover lots of troubles are listed
so perhaps we should wait before installing opensuse on our fujitsus; wait for an official fujitsu/novell howto for example :)
whole story can be read here:
http://www.umpcportal.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=2829&forum=16