On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 14:33:55 +0100, GB
wrote:

On 15/10/2016 14:20, T i m wrote:
On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 10:33:48 +0100, Adrian Caspersz
wrote:

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There are some laptops with junk chipsets that are only good for running
certain versions of windows, as that's all the effort the manufacturers
have done.

I think that might I have here with a Panasonic CF-29 Toughbook. ;-(

It's running the XP it was 'Designed for' reasonably well and W7
similarly well (on a mobile CPU running at 1.6Ghz with a max of 1.5Gb
of RAM that is) but I can't seem to get any distro (I've tried so far)
to even boot (from a LiveDVD)?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/thre...-cf-31.754580/

I have no idea whether that's at all helpful?


Thanks for that, I had found it previously but they seem to be wrong
in than most distros *today* (rather than 2014) don't seem to even
boot to the desktop (unusual on most PC's I've tried, especially in
Compatibility mode), let alone get embroiled with the WiFi or
touchscreen (that I think is broken in any case).

So either this Toughbook is faulty in some way that Linux doesn't like
but Windows seems ok with) or it really just isn't Linux compatible
enough with any recent distro (and I'm not sure there would be much
point in installing something that is already obsolete, especially if
it doesn't actually bring anything useful to the party).

Cheers, T i m