17-04-2012, 12:57 AM
I thought there would be problems with Puppy.. My old "main" system about 6 years ago was a P3-600 with onboard Matrox graphics.
I'll have a look around, Debian of the era (up to Etch) ran it very well.
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/suppor...lay/#Linux
It might be fun getting it to run after installation, but that's where xorg and rc.d come in for loading as a module rather than compiled into the kernel. If I'm honest I think a DEbian disk and just do a "core system" installation, then adding bits, will be the way to go.. and lots and lots of fun
Falko writes superb guides.. This is really the way to deal with linux on last century hardware.
http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-de...an-squeeze (squeeze is "oldstable now, but perfectly adequate.. and will allow itself to be updated to "stable" or even "testing" in stages.. so long as you are careful of a circular libc6 dependency)
If you happen to have something sort of booting it's possible to find out exactly what the hardware thinks it is.. I use Slax KillBill edition, but dsl or any running live cd will work the same way (for a simple prompt start for puppy try the boot parameter puppy=nox and then cd / (change to root directory.. dsl may ask for sudo su - to allow access.. there is no live cd password.. the prompt may or may not change.. then lspci -v will list pretty much all the hardware either plugged in or soldered to the motherboard.. For the same with DSL it's DSL 2 at the boot prompt (runlevel 2.. prompt only).. DSL 1 is "single user" mode.. like windows "administrator safe mode" but with control of the system.. more like admin dos prompt.. care !!
Lifesaver.. it really is when things don't want to work. How many times have I used that working out what drivers a windows computr needs but refuses to install.. Grrrrr.. Dell soundcard hardware and drivers.. arrrrrgh!!!!
Just for a giggle (and to test a forum function) .. The video hardware on this laptop from lspci -v command
I'll have a look around, Debian of the era (up to Etch) ran it very well.
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/suppor...lay/#Linux
It might be fun getting it to run after installation, but that's where xorg and rc.d come in for loading as a module rather than compiled into the kernel. If I'm honest I think a DEbian disk and just do a "core system" installation, then adding bits, will be the way to go.. and lots and lots of fun
Falko writes superb guides.. This is really the way to deal with linux on last century hardware.
http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-de...an-squeeze (squeeze is "oldstable now, but perfectly adequate.. and will allow itself to be updated to "stable" or even "testing" in stages.. so long as you are careful of a circular libc6 dependency)
If you happen to have something sort of booting it's possible to find out exactly what the hardware thinks it is.. I use Slax KillBill edition, but dsl or any running live cd will work the same way (for a simple prompt start for puppy try the boot parameter puppy=nox and then cd / (change to root directory.. dsl may ask for sudo su - to allow access.. there is no live cd password.. the prompt may or may not change.. then lspci -v will list pretty much all the hardware either plugged in or soldered to the motherboard.. For the same with DSL it's DSL 2 at the boot prompt (runlevel 2.. prompt only).. DSL 1 is "single user" mode.. like windows "administrator safe mode" but with control of the system.. more like admin dos prompt.. care !!
Lifesaver.. it really is when things don't want to work. How many times have I used that working out what drivers a windows computr needs but refuses to install.. Grrrrr.. Dell soundcard hardware and drivers.. arrrrrgh!!!!
Just for a giggle (and to test a forum function) .. The video hardware on this laptop from lspci -v command
Code:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device b160
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
Memory at 40000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
Memory at 41000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 20000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: atyfb
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juliadream@juliadream-laptop:~$ uname -a
Linux juliadream-laptop 2.6.32-38-generic #85-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 25 13:59:45 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
