Comments on: Installing Ubuntu 9.10 on the Dell Zino HD

By: Skip

Skip — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:32:05 +0000

Ubuntu 10.04 on mine now, and I don’t think I was seeing this in 9.10, but xorg is taking up 60-80% cpu all of the time. Anyone have any ideas? I am no X-pert.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:04:47 +0000

ok so i wanna make my zino hd a dual boot option with both vista basic and xp pro. it is a 64 bit, and it keeps blue screening on me every time i try to install xp. any suggestions?

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:19:31 +0000

Thanks- I got wirelss to work, however the ATI driver tells me I hold broken packages. Furthermore I have no sound on the rear jack – any ideas?

By: Dominik

Dominik — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:04:38 +0000

I’ve got a Dell Zino HD with AMD X2 3250e CPU. For me the CPU frequency scaling don’t work. What is about your machine?
Do you see cpufreq for
ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:06:31 +0000

Really? Adobe seems to have a download for 10.1 beta 2 on their site:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Maybe it was just added in the last 5 days since your post. I’d be interested to know if someone has tried the latest flash beta on the Zino with Ubuntu (specifically on the cheaper HD3200 card).

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:02:49 +0000

The Flash 10.1 beta does indeed support hardware acceleration, and it supports it for both of the ATI graphics chips available for the Zino (4330 and 3200).

Unfortunately it is limited to the Windows version only at this point. Hopefully we will get support in the Linux community in the near future.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:46:30 +0000

Thanks very much for that – that’s what I was hoping. I think I’m going to go and order one (:

Have you looked at the adobe flash 10.1 beta? It’s supposed to take advantage of hardware acceleration for your graphics chipset (see: http://www.liliputing.com/2009/11/adobe-flash-player-10-1-beta-with-gpu-acceleration-arrives.html for some details) – should significantly reduce CPU utilisation.

Best wishes,

Simon

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:49:02 +0000

I had mine built with the ATI 4330 and Neo X2 6850e (dual core 1.8 GHz). So far it has managed to play anything I have thrown at it.

The only thing that seems to max out the system is full screen HD flash videos. Sor far I have been very impressed with the power of this little box.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:24:13 +0000

Hi,

thanks for the notes – I’ve been thinking about one of these myself.

I was wondering whether your zino HD has the “standard” radeon mobility 3200 or the 4330 option? Have you tried playing back HD video of any sort using it?

Cheers, and happy new year.

Simon

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:02:16 +0000

They previously had one for $229 that shipped with Ubuntu preinstalled but that looks to be gone now.

By: Heiko

Heiko — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:33:45 +0000

I am curious to see where the Zino can be ordered with Ubuntu. Looking at the Dell website I can only find it with Vista and/or Windows 7. Chatting with a sales agent they don’t seem to offer Ubuntu. I am interested in purchasing one but do not want to pay the Microsoft tax

Heiko