On 6/3/22 15:29, Mike Easter wrote:
This is posted in aolu because Bobbie Sellers hangs out in here and
she's a PCLOS fan.
I have an ancient BIOS 2006 Compaq desktop w/ asustek mobo & 2G ram that
I was recently tinkering w/, initially trying current LXLE Focal, to
which I also used the proton vpn network manager mod command
instructions to tweak the nm to be able to import a proton generated nm .conf to make it easy to use its WireGuard. That was fine.
The compaq cpu is AMD and the chipset nvidia as is the graphics and I
spent significant time trying to use a mkusb persistent USB to push the proprietary nvidia (340 for my graphics) in, w/o success.
It got to be such a frustrating project that I started looking for a
distro which included the nvidia graphics, but the current PopOS for
nvidia was too modern, wrong nvidia set.
Research led me to the 2018.6 PCLOS (I chose Mate) in the archives,
which had problems w/ black screen live boot. Eventually I adjusted the boot parameters, eliminate vga=788, add noapic, acpi=off, and nvidia-drm.modeset=1 and got a successful live boot w/ using the nvidia 340.106 proprietary driver. Yay for me; now I can get off that project :-)
Did you consider using the 2022.04.10 Mate iso file at <
https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/live-cd/64bit/>.
I did a KDE install of the same vintage on my
Dell 6440 after I waited too long between updates. It was fast and
clean. Glad that you found a way to resolve the problem,
The problem with your 2018.06 is that it cannot get the
latest updates or rather you can try but expect problems.
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the Perfect Computer Linux Operating System.
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