I forgot to add that everything worked fine on this laptop with openSUSE
12.2. So the issue is probably video driver support by newer kernels.
Gianluca
On Wed, 29 Jan 2025, Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+1 (206) 685 4435
http://gianluca.today/research/
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+1 (206) 685 4435
http://gianluca.today/research/
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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