[GTALUG] I'm discarding an old notebook!

[Don Tai]

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 <talk at gtalug.org>
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.
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