Dear TDE list,
I installed openSUSE 15.6 on an old DELL Inspiron 1520. I decided to give
it some more life with a Crucial MX500 2 TB SSD. The installation went
fine except that I had to use "acpi=off" to boot the installation media,
but I was able to remove that kernel option after the installation.
LXDE runs fine. However, TDE is unstable and already during the setup
wizard the screen goes blank after a few second, then comes back, goes
blank again and after a few times X crashes and goes back to the login
screen. With LXDE, I have a similar issue if I use a openGL application
that displays atoms as spheres (other representations work fine). In that
situation, the screen also flashes a few times and the application that I
use crashes, but the LXDE session survives. This makes me think that it is
probably related to the video card not beeing correctly supported by newer
kernels. The video card is: Mesa Intel 965GM. I wonder whether anybody has
any idea how to troubleshoot this, especially as everything else seems to
work fine.
I use this laptop to teach python and pygame to my middle school son. So
LXDE will be fine for that. What I have done in the past if I'm not happy
with the hardware I installed linux on, I purchase something newer on
e-bay and move the hard disk to the newer system (at least Intel CPU to
Intel CPU should work fine). If anybody has any experience/recommendation
for an older laptop (that I could find on e-bay or similar) with an
integrated Intel GPU where trinity runs in a stable manner possibly in
conjunction with openSUSE 15.6, please let me know. It needs to have a
SATA connection for a 2.5" SSD and it should be able to boot with BIOS or
legacy BIOS as the partitions on the hard disk were created with a DOS
label (not UEFI).
Thanks!
Gianluca
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Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca(a)u.washington.edu
+1 (206) 685 4435
http://gianluca.today/research/
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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