[Discuss] Ubuntu on my old laptop :-((

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 03:45:26PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 06/05/2012 02:38 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > You could try starting with an Ubuntu alternate install, such as
> > the one for servers... http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server
> >
> I certainly could do that. My objective here is to find out WHY. As I
> mentioned, Fedora 17 Live works fine. I could also install Slackware.

Once you have the base installed, you can add X-related packages
until it fails. Then you can see what caused the problem.

If it doesn't fail, of course, then you are stuck with a
functional system.

-dsr-


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