Distro for Older Hardware

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

 Regarding your sound problem.  I had one of these laptops for a while
and it had a Yamaha sound chip in it.  YMF Solo-1 or something like
that.  Back when I got it working I was using the sound system that
preceded alsa.   It was a royal pain to get working.  If you have a
LiveCD that makes your sound work, check the settings it uses.  I know
there is something that can auto detect these chips, but let me tell
you, they are a PITA to set up manually.  I'm pretty sure that DamnSmall
got it right and working.  The chip communicates over an ISA bus.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jonathan Hutchins
>Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 12:08 PM

>I have an old laptop, IBM ThinkPad 380 Z, that had Mandrake 
>9.1 installed and running reasonably.  It's a low-power 
>system, with only a 300MHz PII, 96M of ram, and a 3G hard 
>drive, but it ran Mandrake reasonably well.
>