http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/good-news-or-bad-news-still-no-x/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/good-news-or-bad-news-still-no-x/#comment-41937 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:09:53 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/good-news-or-bad-news-still-no-x/#comment-41937 I have puppy running on a old Toshiba satellite 300CDS with a 166MHz pentium mmx.
I find that neither of the newer puppy 4.31 kernels (2.6.25.16 or 2.6.30.5) work – only the retro puppy 4.31 with the 2.6.21.7 kernel.
I don’t think it is so much the kernel version as the ide drivers compiled into the kernel (the 2.6.17 kernel has the old ide drivers while the two more recent use pata).

]]> http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/good-news-or-bad-news-still-no-x/#comment-41931 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:22:05 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/good-news-or-bad-news-still-no-x/#comment-41931 Tiny. Core. Linux.

]]> http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/good-news-or-bad-news-still-no-x/#comment-41914 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:53:56 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/good-news-or-bad-news-still-no-x/#comment-41914 If you really want a minimalistic distro for low-end hardware, try out damn small linux. I got the best results on my Satellite 4060xcdt with this distribution (its the only distro that started X with the correct resolution of 1024×768 instead of just 800×600)

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