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openSUSE Smeegol: First MeeGo working on Nvidia ION hardware

Tags: ion, meego, netbook, nvidia, opensuse, smeegol

October 8, 2010 0

openSUSE Goblin Team released Smeegol 1.0, their first edition with the MeeGo UI. More information about the release you can find at http://news.opensuse.org/2010/10/06/announcing-smeegol-1-0/ I always tried to give MeeGo a try on a netbook with Nvidia ION accelerated graphics but MeeGo doesn’t support that so far. MeeGo forums member vljn posted about a workaround to [...]

Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Pulseaudio Issues

Linux / Netbook

Tags: 10.04, lucid, netbook, pulseaudio, ubuntu

September 30, 2010 0

I recently got problems with any music players on my netbook, in that case a Lenovo S12 ION. The problem is that pulseaudio eating so much cpu power that playback stutters almost every 3-5 secs. So I removed pulseaudio and voila, playback with alsa is smooth and with a special ppa I still can use [...]