VESA??? I think VESA is from the 80386/80486 era, and that even Pentium 1 (desktop) computers started adopting the PCI bus for several reasons, including the replacement of the short-sighted VESA bus. So, a Pentium 3 should heavily post-date VESA.

Hartmut Sager

On 7 October 2013 14:48, Gilbert E. Detillieux <gedetil@cs.umanitoba.ca> wrote:

On 2013-10-07 14:39, Robert Dyck wrote:

Still need advice for a Linux distro. Earlier today I tried Mint 15
Cinnamon 32-bit, and Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 LTS 32-bit. Neither work on
this laptop. Their complaint is the graphics chip is too old. It's an
IBM ThinkPad A21m, the graphics chip is ATI Rage Mobility P/M A21/2.

If the ATI driver in Xorg doesn't work for that chipset, you might want to try the Xvesa server instead. Hopefully, the chipset isn't so old that it predates VESA standards! :)

If you want something in the Ubuntu family, Lubuntu might be a good choice for something ligher-weight than Mint or Ubuntu. (It uses the LXDE desktop.)

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