[GTALUG] I'm discarding an old notebook!

[Don Tai]

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 <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> | From: Don Tai via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
>
> | 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.
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