| From: Stewart C. Russell <scruss@gmail.com> | Hi - I've been setting up an old Thinkpad R51 as Protolab's small CNC | controller. I've been trying to use Debian 8, but it seems not to like | the Radeon 250M in the machine at *all*. I'm stuck with "an error | occurred / click here to log out", and no sshd to access the machine | remotely. Try booting with the kernel parameter "nomodeset". Somone suggested that to me yesterday and it worked for me (booting ubuntu 16.04 on a Windows tablet). Performance was terrible but better than a blank screen. | I realise that this Thinkpad is slower than a Raspberry Pi 3 (I | benchmarked it) Really? That surprises me. Details? | Can anyone suggest a light(ish) graphical distro that's user focussed | and will allow fairly recent packaged apps like Cura and LinuxCNC ... debian surely has a choice of desktops, including some that would fit the bill.