I got a second eMachines emd644 notebook with AMD Zacarte. For some unknown reason, installation was much harder than the first one. Ubuntu 10.10 whether Desktop or Alternate editions weren't working at all. The Alternate installer was saying that there is no installable kernel available for the machine.
To get the machine working, I used the Alternate installer of the just released Alpha 2 of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. Desktop edition still didn't work. With the Alternate installer, there weren't any problems with the installation. Both Ethernet and Wifi drivers are still not available, so I had to manually install the Broadcom STA driver to get to the internet.
Since this is Alpha 2 after, I didn't expect things to work smoothly. In fact, of all the available User Sessions, only Classic Desktop w/o Effects was working. AppMenu (Global Menu) was still flaky so I removed it from the panel.
Without Unity and AppMenu, the installation looks pretty much 10.10 except for the better hardware support. I'll see over the next few weeks how stable this is going to be. But if I can't get a stable Ubuntu on this laptop, I'll try other distros too.
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