EFI and Ubuntu??

[jmaz268]

well bought me a new little toy, one of the dell Inspiron Duo.....

Well the jist of the system is its a mini 10, but the screen rotates and it can be used as a tablet with a touchscreen.

It came with Windows 7....but the poor Atom processor doesnt like it...I mean its decently quick, but would be much faster on linux.

Has anyway tried running EFI on Linux through Wine??????

Was gonna dual boot it with windows and linux, but if linux will do, good bye windows..

 

[EFI Support]

Do a search on our forum. I'm sure I've read posts about Linux. Sorry I can't be of more help

Cheers
Cindy

 

[Darius6t9]

If nothing else, you could just run a virtual machine using VMWare or Virtual Box on Linux with windblows whatever. At most you would have to increase the ram.

 

[McRat]

It's the driver for the USB chip that EFI uses (getting senile forget the name) that screws you up. I even tried to recompile parts of Ubuntu with changes for the driver, and it didn't work. I contacted CodeWeavers (primary WINE developers), and they were of no help.

In general, apps that require access to HW that isn't supported by the Linux kernel don't port well to Linux. I got StarCraft (new and old) to run, my CAD software to run, MS Office to run, and others under WINE, but my apps that are hardware dependent have been failures.

BUT... I'm not an expert with Linux or WINE. Somebody who could spent the time to do it could make it work. But they've have to be smarter than a Rat.

 

[8100 Power]

I believe it's the FTDI drivers it uses.

 

[TDFDiesel]

There is a whole section on the EFI Live forum about this, basically you can't just run it through Wine.

 

[jheyob]

I noticed today how much slower my ideapad s10-2 with the atom 270 is compared to my old core 2 duo notebook when trying to copy bbl stuff to the v2. Would running linux even speed that part of Efi up if it did work? Seems to be more hardware related than software related.