Any distro that will work with old ATI (mach64) video using hardware acceleration?
So I have a 700 Mhz Pentium III Panasonic CF-48 laptop that I would love to use in my car for my son to watch movies on during long car trips.
In order to do this, I really need to have video hardware acceleration work on it. lspci -nn shows this: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x [1002:4c4d] (rev 64) According to this site, the source is not being maintained anymore. Quote:
I have CentOS 5.0 installed at the moment but am having trouble getting the kernel modules compiled... Thanks! |
Well, looking up the pciid, 1002:4c4d, the open source radeon driver should work with this card. I would say try a current distro with a recent driver.
And of course with a low powered CPU and presumably low RAM, look to a distro using openbox or other lightweight window manager. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LXDE_Spin http://unity-linux.org/ http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_helena_fluxbox.php Or really light: http://www.tinycorelinux.com/ |
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