Where is best place to report bug, find reported bugs, or request help?
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Clicking the "Use Slack App" button results in an error page "One of the following (slack) is not a registered protocol or is not allowed in this context."
Searching https://github.com/elementary for GM965 (popular old Intel laptop video for which problems were and are common)
Searching with Google or DuckDuckGo for GM965 on https://elementary.io/ also produces no hits regarding installation
Issues:
without nomodeset, dmesg is mostly a flood of dump screens. Cannot stay on vtty2 because it keeps auto switching back to vtty7, where there is nothing but a mouse pointer on a black screen. Switching to vtty2 takes more than a minute to get the black vtty7 replaced by whatever is on vtty2. As a practical matter this severely inhibits collecting data to accompany a bug report.
with nomodeset, the start job for the Ubuntu live CD installer just runs and runs and runs and .... (more than 20 minutes before I gave up)
I'm not a newbie, >15 years using Linux either extensively or mostly, and multi- multi-booting almost exclusively. This old Vaio however is not mine, but a job I'm trying to do for a friend with limited mental talent. I was hoping the apparent similarity to MacOS would be his cup of tea.
Could it be Elementary is just too demanding for 2GB and/or this old chipset and/or a 2.2GHz Core2Duo, and 4GB RAM should be a minimum instead of a mere recommendation?
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