Hello, newbie here as well as to Linux in general. Windows user up until now.
I have a few ancient laptops lying around that I'm thinking of bringing back to life installing a light Linux version. Hence, Linux Lite seems like a good candidate.
I went through the moves of installing ver 7.6 and installed all available updates; it said no driver updates are available.
Yet I get an extremely unstable display and can't seem to solve the problem trying every available graphics resolution (see attached video: in it, 1280*800 is being used).
I looked on about every forum I could find to look for help on this issue, but can't find a thing.
Hoping someone can give me a tip? Maybe another member managed to get a working install on a similar old machine?
Joining a inxi dump below, maybe there's something strange in there?
Thanks in advance,
Lio
INXI result
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System:
Host: linuxlite-F5SL01 Kernel: 6.8.0-85-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 Distro: Linux Lite 7.6 LTS
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: F5SL v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: F5SL v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 301 date: 06/19/2008
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 38.8 Wh (99.0%) condition: 39.2/47.3 Wh (82.9%)
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core2 Duo T5450 bits: 64 type: MCP cache:
L2: 2 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 998 min/max: 996/1660 cores: 1: 1000 2: 996
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD RV620/M82 [Mobility Radeon HD 3450/3470] driver: radeon
v: kernel
Device-2: Chicony 1.3 MPixel UVC Webcam driver: uvcvideo type: USB
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 driver: X: loaded: radeon
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: r600 gpu: radeon
resolution: 1280x800~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,r600,swrast
platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: mesa v: 25.0.7-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
renderer: AMD RV620 (DRM 2.50.0 / 6.8.0-85-generic LLVM 20.1.2)
Audio:
Device-1: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Azalia Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-85-generic status: kernel-api
Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
driver: sis190
IF: enp0s4 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:22:15:7f:f3:45
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter
driver: ath5k
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: 00:22:43:01:cd:a4
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 20.89 GiB (4.5%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G1R0A-68A4W0
size: 465.76 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 182.28 GiB used: 20.88 GiB (11.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 59 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (10.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 77.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 3 GiB available: 2.9 GiB used: 1.27 GiB (43.9%)
Processes: 218 Uptime: 1h 28m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.34
I have a few ancient laptops lying around that I'm thinking of bringing back to life installing a light Linux version. Hence, Linux Lite seems like a good candidate.
I went through the moves of installing ver 7.6 and installed all available updates; it said no driver updates are available.
Yet I get an extremely unstable display and can't seem to solve the problem trying every available graphics resolution (see attached video: in it, 1280*800 is being used).
I looked on about every forum I could find to look for help on this issue, but can't find a thing.
Hoping someone can give me a tip? Maybe another member managed to get a working install on a similar old machine?
Joining a inxi dump below, maybe there's something strange in there?
Thanks in advance,
Lio
INXI result
-------------
System:
Host: linuxlite-F5SL01 Kernel: 6.8.0-85-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 Distro: Linux Lite 7.6 LTS
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: F5SL v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: F5SL v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 301 date: 06/19/2008
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 38.8 Wh (99.0%) condition: 39.2/47.3 Wh (82.9%)
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core2 Duo T5450 bits: 64 type: MCP cache:
L2: 2 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 998 min/max: 996/1660 cores: 1: 1000 2: 996
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD RV620/M82 [Mobility Radeon HD 3450/3470] driver: radeon
v: kernel
Device-2: Chicony 1.3 MPixel UVC Webcam driver: uvcvideo type: USB
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 driver: X: loaded: radeon
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: r600 gpu: radeon
resolution: 1280x800~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,r600,swrast
platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: mesa v: 25.0.7-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
renderer: AMD RV620 (DRM 2.50.0 / 6.8.0-85-generic LLVM 20.1.2)
Audio:
Device-1: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Azalia Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-85-generic status: kernel-api
Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
driver: sis190
IF: enp0s4 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:22:15:7f:f3:45
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter
driver: ath5k
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: 00:22:43:01:cd:a4
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 20.89 GiB (4.5%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G1R0A-68A4W0
size: 465.76 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 182.28 GiB used: 20.88 GiB (11.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 59 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (10.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 77.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 3 GiB available: 2.9 GiB used: 1.27 GiB (43.9%)
Processes: 218 Uptime: 1h 28m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.34
thanks!