That's sad. You could try running an external monitor. I'd give up on Linux and run Win. I have found few use cases where I've given up on linux. Sometimes linux runs slower than win, but not often.
I still have a 2002 Dell netbook running WinXP specifically for Chinese social media QQ. No email or secure stuff. The only browser that I can find that still runs is Opera, which is also Chinese owned. The system is completely isolated, and I expect it to get hacked. On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 at 11:37, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > | From: Don Tai via talk <[email protected]> > > | 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. > > I can run it with the kernel option "modprobe.blacklist=nouveau". > Then the screen resolution is 1024x768 instead of 1440x900. And that > option slows down the already slow machine. > > The nouveau driver almost works. But when it fails, it corrupts the > screen and eventually seems to lock up the machine. > > As I said, I blame NVidia. They lost interest in providing the > proprietary driver and they didn't provide specifications sufficient > for the nouveau driver to reliably function. > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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