That's sad. You could try running an external monitor. I'd give up on Linux and run Win. I have found few use cases where I've given up on linux. Sometimes linux runs slower than win, but not often.

I still have a 2002 Dell netbook running WinXP specifically for Chinese social media QQ. No email or secure stuff. The only browser that I can find that still runs is Opera, which is also Chinese owned. The system is completely isolated, and I expect it to get hacked.

On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 at 11:37, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

| From: Don Tai via talk <talk@gtalug.org>

| 15 year old notebook. Will no version of Linux work? That's sad. I have
| desktops much older than that that can run puppy Linux.

I can run it with the kernel option "modprobe.blacklist=nouveau".
Then the screen resolution is 1024x768 instead of 1440x900. And that
option slows down the already slow machine.

The nouveau driver almost works. But when it fails, it corrupts the
screen and eventually seems to lock up the machine.

As I said, I blame NVidia. They lost interest in providing the
proprietary driver and they didn't provide specifications sufficient
for the nouveau driver to reliably function.
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