Lenovo ideapad S12 and Mandriva 2010

HI everyone,

there are 3 of these in my extended family right now, every and each of them with via nano CPU, since it has twice the cache of atom and faster FSB, I had not had the chance to compare it with its atom counterpart, however, the parameters speek for themselves.

finally I got all the important stuf going on this tiny laptop, so here is my report.

• for everyday, not CPU intensive tasks a very good choice.

• good build quality

• good price
• keyboard is full size !
• solid 3 hours of battery life

what I dislike

• to get the buit in mic to work, you need to disable pulse
• the SD card reader is not a SCSI device, I did not find a way to mount it at boot time so that I could use it as root partition
• the cooling fan is quite noisy
• forget about wine. if you run wine the xserver locks up and all you can do is hold the power button for long time enough to reboot it (with xorg openchrome driver, other drivers behave just the same way)
• and 1 more thing, again driver related, run a movie in any player, pause it, minimize it, maximize it, unpauze it, do it 2-3 times again, perhaps move around with the player window and you are guaranteed to lock up x server again.... anyone any solution?

devices working out of the box:

• both network interfaces
• bluetooth
• webcam
• card reader
• touchpad

some fiddling to be done:

to get cpu scaling working you need to add "e_powersaver" to /etc/modules.preload

then install powernowd and kick(uninstall) cpufreqd

reboot and off you go:

cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : CentaurHauls
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : VIA Nano processor U2250 (1.6GHz Capable)
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 798.032
cache size : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc up rep_good pni monitor vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr rng rng_en ace ace_en ace2 phe phe_en lahf_lm
bogomips : 3192.14
clflush size : 64
power management:

so much for now

any comments and questions are welcome