15 year old notebook. Will no version of Linux work? That's sad. I have desktops much older than that that can run puppy Linux.
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 at 22:44, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an Acer Aspire 9300 that I bought in 2007. > I cannot get it to be useful. The problem is (mostly) with drivers for > the NVidia Go 6100 video. > > - nVidia stopped supporting this in the proprietary Linux driver. > > - nouveau is unreliable https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46557 > > - using the generic video driver just doesn't cut it. > > Darn NVidia! If they released specs, I think nouveau would work. There > seems to be some bug related to more than 2G of RAM (a lot in 2007). But > that's not the whole story. > > Other than that, the machine is functional. > > Oh: Windows 10 goes into a slow failure loop if you try to install it. > (The computer came with Vista. Not safe to use these days.) > > The machine would not be fast but it would be useable for many tasks if it > worked! It has a 64-bit AMD Turion processor. This was before AMD bought > ATI; the "chipset" was made by NVidia. > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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