Cool..thanks! I was thinking of Elementary OS...
or maybe Mint64 ...what do you think? I have a
SiliconDust tuner that I would like to use. It
does support Kodi with open Elec for Linux but I
don't know what that is... a distribution or an app.
At 11:24 AM 7/29/2018, you wrote:
Short answer is yes it looks like the XOrg
radeon driver
(https://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Radeon/) has
full support for the X1400 graphics card, out of
the box on most distributions. I'd be tempted to
run something like Xubuntu or Lubuntu on it as
both use a lighter-weight desktop (Xfce or LXQt)
than KDE or Gnome that are in the standard
distributions. They're both still Debian/Ubuntu
based so if you're not familiar with Linux you
can get help on it relatively easily by
searching as most Ubuntu-based solutions will work.
On 2018-07-29 10:13 AM, Winterlight wrote:
I own a old T60 Thinkpad circa 2007 that still
works well. I bought it on Ebay used for not
much money a long time ago. The only upgrade I
did was to install an old small SSD in
it. The T60 has a chipset that only handles
3GB of RAM because it's native OS is XP. In
it's day it was considered high end. A large
wide screen, 2.2 dual core with ATI Mobility Radeon X1400.
>
 The ATI video is now a problem. The ATI
video card creates a problem when it comes to
OS upgrades because there is absolutely no
drivers for it in Win7 and above. All you can
get is generic MS video card driver which kills
a lot of the usefulness of the laptop. If it
wasn't for the video card I could update the OS
and find a use for it. I am thinking about
wiping the drive and installing some flavor of
Linux...would Linux have better support for the ATI card ?
