First, you can't upgrade the CPU on a laptop the way you expect. It is NOT a standard AM3+ socket. Check HP's documentation for that, I can't speak for their upgradeability.
Second, you are grossly overthinking your question. I don't know what Labview is. So I take the following steps: Q: Does it support Linux? A: search duckduckgo for the terms "labview linux" found the following pages on the National Instruments website: https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z000000kG1MSAU&l=en-US https://www.ni.com/download/labview-development-system-2017/6963/en/ Conclusion: Yes, what you are looking to do is possible in CentOS 7. Don't expect me to judge the quality of their installation process or provide any further advice, I'm not a labview user. -Ben On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 11:39 AM Michael Christopher Robinson <mich...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-05-26 at 18:27 -0700, Ben Koenig wrote: > > If nomodeset resolves your problems then you can assume that > > everything will work. > > > > What you did was disable Kernel ModeSetting ( or KMS ) which allows > > the radeon driver to kick in and enable full hardware acceleration > > without X11. You might notice that your resolution stays low during > > boot, rather than kicking in halfway through. > > This does NOT affect hardware acceleration in X11. So as long as you > > are running gnome in an X server you are fine. This is just known > > quirky behavior with the new rendering subsystem in the kernel on > > older hardware. > > > > Most applications don't care one way or another about KMS, however > > any > > of the hyper-modern desktop interfaces (gnome3 shell, KDE plasma, > > Cinnamon) will probably show their ugly faces at some point in the > > future. > > > > All you want to do here is make sure your CPU usage is not up through > > the roof and continue about your day :-) > > Thanks Ben. One question I have since this old laptop uses what > appears to be a standard Athlon II processor is whether or not I > can swap in a quad core in the same cpu family? Two concerns, > one is a heat concern as this laptop runs pretty hot already > where a quad core may run hotter. Second concern, power consumption. > Is there enough power for an Athlon II 635 quad core processor? > I'm assuming the motherboard has a standard AM3+ socket, does it? > > Third question, I know I said there were just two :-) Is running > VirtualBox on top of CentOS for 7 pro going to work on this low end > hardware where Linux does not support hardware acceleration for the > integrated Radeon? Virtualbox 3D support is experimental, so maybe > Virtualbox doesn't support accelerated video anyways. This is a > question of raw processing power, I have enough memory. I prefer > CentOS with Virtualbox if needed for 7 pro, but CentOS does not > support the integrated video card well. I may need a hotter laptop > to run Labview 2010 in a virtual machine. That is, I need a virtual > machine for the Windows version we have unless we decide to go to the > Linux version. If I pitch to my boss, hey, we need a Linux laptop to > run Labview 2017 for Linux. I need to make the case and make it well. > If we buy a Linux laptop, is there any source that will include Labview > 2017 OEM installed and ready to go? > > -- Michael C. Robinson > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
