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7 Comments
- depro9, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3I have never ran into any problems installing Ubuntu on countless older systems. (true story)
- Spr0k3t, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2You obviously missed the point by a long shot. Four years ago the integrated graphics cards were still sub par. It made no difference if it was the best possible integrated graphics you could find. It didn't matter what the OS was, still doesn't. If you look at the PCI card technology available four years back, you could find quite a few graphics cards available in PCI slots that would have blown the integrated chipset out of the water. Granted, if the upstream devs (nothing to do with the development of Ubuntu) fixed the bug with the 845 graphics driver, one of the three problems you listed would be fixed. However, if you are not willing to wait, you do have many options. Creating a blog and complaining about it is one way to do it, but that just seems overly counter productive. I'm sure if someone tried to hang you with a new rope, you'd blog about that as well.
- Eoxx, on 11/21/2008, -1/+3X-ubuntu works on older hardware .. ( a true story )
- razorxpress, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2Don't you guys get. My motherboard (hp branded) comes with integrated graphics card of 64M. There is no slot for AGP or a PCI express one. So getting a decent graphics card on this model is just a fake story once more. I bought my computer (intel 845 some 4 years ago). How come a 4 yr old computer become a very old one. If we start saying everything old and discard supporting them, which was supported previously, the advertisement of linux supports more hardware than windows again becomes a fake story too
- Spr0k3t, on 11/21/2008, -1/+1Two out of three of the problems can be solved using a cheap graphics card which supports full T&L... that's about $20 on a decent used graphics card. As for the Nokia problem, do a little bit of digging... can't help you there.
On a side note, I've got an old laptop from mid 2000 that still works with the latest Ubuntu. YMMV - wigren, on 11/21/2008, -1/+1This has nothing to do with his (her?) hardware per se. It's likely a driver issue.
- Spr0k3t, on 11/21/2008, -2/+1It's a known bug with the Intel 845 chipset. I'd say it's hardware.
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