Good thoughts. I use Puppy on another,<br>more modern machine, and did give it a <br>try on the 166 MHz unit. No go. Since<br>it too is so good with hardware, this was<br>a bad sign. <br><br>I've read of similar issues involving mice<br>
and older hardware by doing a Google <br>search, but have never seen a solution. <br>One person did suggest the kernel, but <br>based on what I don't know. For now <br>that remains the common thread. And<br>the fact that Knoppix V3.6, with a 2.4 <br>
kernel, works fine. A straightforward <br>solution is to just stay with that, but the<br>game here is partly to see what old <br>hardware is supported by an up to date<br>version of Linux. <br><br>I'll try DSL. Given there isn't much to it,<br>
that should further suggest whether it's<br>the kernel.<br><br> -- Bob<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Lee Forest <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lee8oi@gmail.com">lee8oi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">a 166mhz processor would definitly be testing the lower limits of<br>
linux. If I was using a computer that old. I'd try going with a distro<br>
along the lines of Damn Small Linux, or Puppy Linux. TinyME 2008.1<br>
droplet was awsome on mysystem, but the repositories are in sore need<br>
of updating(based on PClinuxOS which hasn't been very productive)<br>
Course that comes from my distro hopping experiences(I know some are<br>
against that, but how do you really get a feel for your ideal distro<br>
if you don't try a few?). The first two distro's especially seem to do<br>
pretty well on older systems, and they claim to be able to run on<br>
systems with 486 processors. And I've never had any mouse problems<br>
with either of them. their hardware support is as good as any other<br>
linux can be. As for having problems with running linux on any modern<br>
computer I do agree with trying other distros. if you insist on red<br>
hat based ones theres still more alternatives, like CentOS, and berry.<br>
I browse distrowatch at least a couple times a week checking out the<br>
latest releases of linux. And I always find myself in favor of the<br>
Debian based distros for many reasons. A big one being that I've seen<br>
more applications available in deb, then rpm. Course rpm based distros<br>
seem to be oriented in more commerical directions, and debian being<br>
more for the general user.<br>
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