<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">VESA??? I think VESA is from the 80386/80486 era, and that even Pentium 1 (desktop) computers started adopting the PCI bus for several reasons, including the replacement of the short-sighted VESA bus. So, a Pentium 3 should heavily post-date VESA.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hartmut Sager<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 October 2013 14:48, Gilbert E. Detillieux <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gedetil@cs.umanitoba.ca" target="_blank">gedetil@cs.umanitoba.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2013-10-07 14:39, Robert Dyck wrote:<br>
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Still need advice for a Linux distro. Earlier today I tried Mint 15<br>
Cinnamon 32-bit, and Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 LTS 32-bit. Neither work on<br>
this laptop. Their complaint is the graphics chip is too old. It's an<br>
IBM ThinkPad A21m, the graphics chip is ATI Rage Mobility P/M A21/2.<br>
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If the ATI driver in Xorg doesn't work for that chipset, you might want to try the Xvesa server instead. Hopefully, the chipset isn't so old that it predates VESA standards! :)<br>
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If you want something in the Ubuntu family, Lubuntu might be a good choice for something ligher-weight than Mint or Ubuntu. (It uses the LXDE desktop.)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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