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Eadwine Rose wrote: Thu May 16, 2024 7:02 am You do realize that this topic is over a year old, right? No need to dig up old topics to respond to them.

Has it occurred to you that not all people can use MX on the latest hardware?

And what should I do?

I found the following information on the linux Mint forum: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=272283 about Vulkan support on older Radeon cards, but how this doing on MX?

There is such a laptop (pretty old) and two operating systems tested on it at the same time (parallel, of course) - antiX 23 and MX 23.2.
The Windows Vista operating system installed earlier on a laptop (and never changed before) is not comparable to anything - after booting or shutting down under ...

I think that you should try MX's sister OS, Antix with a laptop of that age.

Antix, which is aimed at ancient computers like yours, can be found here:

https://antixlinux.com/

My reasoning is that the two most likely reasons for that flicker at boot are that the modern vesa video driver (that's ...

All of the above is related to the ATI Radeon X1200/1250 (RS690) graphics card. Unfortunately, your laptop (like mine) is the "lucky" owner of this video card. I have read on many Linux forums that this particular chipset does not work correctly with drivers. You are still relatively lucky - you ...