[Novalug] EeMachine mini tower EL1200-05w anyone ever put linux on one?

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Mon Jul 30 19:47:12 EDT 2012


There is a bit of truth in this email, for sure.

Jay

> Another alternative is to ditch the eMachine junk and get someone to
> donate enough decent parts to put together a usable PC.  :-)
>
> At some point you hit diminishing returns on these low-price, unexpandable
> junk-grade PCs.
>
> William Sutton
>
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, RJ Bergeron wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell@qis.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> thanks to all who have suggested a different graphics card for the
>>> eMachine.
>>>
>>> unfortunately the eMachine is one of these cheap compact computers and the
>>> only slot in it at all is a tiny slot that has the card that accepts the
>>> network cable.
>>
>>> From looking at other pictures of that system board online, especially
>> http://www.isuppli.com/PublishingImages/Teardowns/2009-01-16_eMachine.jpg
>> it looks like the tiny slot for the network card is a PCIe 1x slot.
>>
>> With that, you could pull the network card and install a PCIe 1x video
>> card, something off this page:
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600007854&IsNodeId=1&name=PCI%20Express%20x1
>> and see if the system can use it for a primary display. Then you can
>> get a USB2 adapter for the network connection, something from here:
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100010064%20600016288&IsNodeId=1&name=USB
>> though I recommend double-checking for linux compatibility.
>> Unfortunately, this setup would put you back $50+ bucks.
>>
>> Other possibilities for the adventurous is modifying a x16 card to fit
>> in a x1 slot, which works for some of the lower-end cards, but details
>> are spotty. A third adventure would be to get a USB DisplayLink
>> adapter and reconfigure X to use that - which is *possible*, but
>> configuring X in this fashion is tedious, and the boot console is
>> still on the system video.
>>
>> RJ
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