Re: asus eeepc 1225

On 11/21/19 3:52 PM, Paul dd wrote:
> 
> 
> Il 21/11/2019 22:28, Dan Ritter ha scritto:
>> Sadly, the video chipset was always badly supported due to a
>> terrible intellectual property issue, which has not gone away.
>>
>> I would strongly recommend getting a replacement. If you can
>> find nearly any other five year old laptop, it will be better
>> supported and reasonably affordable now. Replacing a spinning
>> disk with an SSD makes my 2011 MacBook quite useable these days.
>>
>> -dsr-
> 
> 
> Yes, I know , but when I bought it , there was ubuntu 12.04 LTS 
> pre-installed , and I remenber the video card was supported as gma3600.
> 
> The paradoxical thing is that it was branded linux, so I bought it to 
> haven't linux driver problem, instead it had this serius problem with 
> gma3600 acceleration.
> I use it mainly in the terminal with ssh , it has an autonomy of 8-9 
> hours, very good for me.
> 
> After I installed debian , and the driver installed is gma500 without 
> acceleration.
> 
> However, it is wrong to make the comparison with MacBook 2011 , it was a 
> I5 or I7 cpu laptop based, instaed my asus eee pc 1225C is a poor N2600 
> netbook. I have an oldest HP elitebook ( from 2008 , without linux brand 
> , with cpu intel core duo,ddr2 ram memory) and it work perfectly with 
> debian, ubuntu , arch and freeBSD.
> 
> I don't know why asus has marketed this netbook brander linux without 
> video card support.
> 
> 
> What do they do at Asus????
> 
> Paul
> 
> 

My old desktop got hit with loss of video acceleration with its Nvidia 
graphics. I can not remember what model anymore but I got a lot of use 
out of it for many years. About 2 years ago I passed it down to my 
grandkids as a simple gaming, reading and music playing machine not 
recommended for internet browsing.

You may want to see if you can find a different use for you netbook or 
look at the small distributions such as tiny core linux 
http://tinycorelinux.net/ or puppy linux http://puppylinux.com/ or even 
go back to ubuntu 12.04 but be weary of internet use.

Regards,

Eric