>HP nw8240
>Pentium M 760 - 2GHz
>RAM - 1 GB
>ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5000 1920 x 1200
>Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG
Never had any contact with linux but since I don't really care about this old laptop, I'm giving it a try.
I'm about to try installing linux mint 17.2 cinnamon. Will it work driver vise for this conf (it having ati and stuff)? Anything I should give special attention to? Will card readers, bluetooth and stuff like that work?
It probably will, go ahead friend.
>>51534616
should work. I mean that hardware is rather old, but I've installed Mint on a plethora of machines ranging from old as shit pentium 4's desktops for grandma, and newer stuff like my current build. (using AMD r9 390)
Everything worked out of the box with no issues.
Cheers guys!
I'm off to try it now, wish me luck!
With that hardware I would recomend something lighter like slitaz.
Mint and most other mainstream distros will run on 1gb ram, but it wont be very comfy.
>>51534616
Installed mine two days ago, and I must say I like it a lot better than Windows.
Burn the ISO onto a DVD or USB stick and try it from there to see if you like it, that's what I did
Not that it's not confy, its almost unusable.
Funny how xp worked decent..at least for some surfing and light work..
Didn't expect lightning fast, but this is ridiculous..
>>51536593
Make sure you have the fglrx drivers installed.
>>51534801
this.
Firstly, try mint, If it feels ok, then keep it.
If it feels like it's lagging, you should try something more lightweight like xubuntu or even lubuntu.
I'd suggest Lubuntu or Arch.
had no luck installing fglrx, either with software manager or manually.. it just doesn't start the os or it goes into fallback mode.
I'm just gonna try lubuntu now, it that fails, win xp it is..
Should work fine. Enjoy.
can't get fglrx to work, i think that's making things worse.. like youtube, 480p- choppy, 720p- no way. tried flash and html5..
>>51534616
You migh run into trouble with PAE -support. I'm too lazy to google if your CPU is one of those affected by this, but there are workarounds even if it doesn't support it.
