![]() ![]() Arch’s xf86 radeon driver was giving me redraws in IceWM that I could actually watch trace along the screen, and slowly fill with data. Most notably, absolutely hideous video performance. ![]() But installing Arch on it came with its own set of headaches. □Īrch, on the other hand, didn’t seem to care. Linux Mint outright refused to boot, as did a couple of other smaller distros - all because of PAE. Those three little letters turned out to be very important though. I hadn’t ever seen a machine that spat out errors about PAE. Up until now, PAE was just another acronym I had to run to Wikipedia to figure out. It came with some disadvantages in life, most notably that this particular machine is one of the rare ones that can’t handle PAE. It’s a bit scratched, not too purty, but 100 percent working in all the places that matter - keyboard, screen, audio, optical drive, power train, etc. This machine reminds me a lot of the Insprion 8000 I kept for many years, in that it’s roughly the same size and shape, same era, and similar hardware. This is 4dkln41 - a 400 MHz-bus Pentium M, 1.6Ghz, with a lowly 512Mb of memory, Intel Pro/Wireless 2100 and an ATI Mobility FireGL 9000 on a 1400×1050 LCD. Jane came into the house along with an assortment of leftover PCMCIA wireless cards, a docking station that may or may not work with this model, a power cord and an excellent lesson in the power of patiently bargaining over three or four days.Īnd in return, I parted with the rough equivalent of US$50. That is a plain-Jane Dell Latitude D600, with not a bell or whistle to brag about. Because life isn’t interesting enough, last week I pinned down a used computer and brought it home. ![]()
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