Short answer is yes it looks like the XOrg radeon driver
(https://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Radeon/) has full support for the
X1400 graphics card, out of the box on most distributions. I'd be
tempted to run something like Xubuntu or Lubuntu on it as both use a
lighter-weight desktop (Xfce or LXQt) than KDE or Gnome that are in the
standard distributions. They're both still Debian/Ubuntu based so if
you're not familiar with Linux you can get help on it relatively easily
by searching as most Ubuntu-based solutions will work.
On 2018-07-29 10:13 AM, Winterlight wrote:
I own a old T60 Thinkpad circa 2007 that still works well. I bought it
on Ebay used for not much money a long time ago. The only upgrade I
did was to install an old small SSD in it. The T60 has a chipset that
only handles 3GB of RAM because it's native OS is XP. In it's day it
was considered high end. A large wide screen, 2.2 dual core with ATI
Mobility Radeon™ X1400.
The ATI video is now a problem. The ATI video card creates a problem
when it comes to OS upgrades because there is absolutely no drivers
for it in Win7 and above. All you can get is generic MS video card
driver which kills a lot of the usefulness of the laptop. If it wasn't
for the video card I could update the OS and find a use for it. I am
thinking about wiping the drive and installing some flavor of
Linux...would Linux have better support for the ATI card ?
