User Feedback :: reviving old notebooks

I've trying other distros, even the big, famous, ones, but I keep coming back to DSL because it works so well (Hey I made a poem)!

You got me so excited reading about reviving old notebooks that I bought one for $100 on ebay. Toshiba 480CDT Pentium 233MHZ with 64MB RAM. I can't wait!

Quote (doobit @ Sep. 28 2005,17:54)

You got me so excited reading about reviving old notebooks that I bought one for $100 on ebay. Toshiba 480CDT Pentium 233MHZ with 64MB RAM. I can't wait!

That should be a pympin rig using DSL!

Brian
AwPhuch

Quote (AwPhuch @ Sep. 28 2005,18:23)

Quote (doobit @ Sep. 28 2005,17:54)

You got me so excited reading about reviving old notebooks that I bought one for $100 on ebay. Toshiba 480CDT Pentium 233MHZ with 64MB RAM. I can't wait!

That should be a pympin rig using DSL!

Brian
AwPhuch

Yes, that should be very good. my 233 has 96M but when I have Firefox (with several tabs open), Synaptic open and a CD playing with XMMS I think the highest I have noticed on my ram usage is 32% (probably higher at times but it is not very high most times). My CPU usage is very reasonable and using a SOHOWARE pcmcia card connected through a Freesco setup (p200 32M ram with 33.6 modem, 3C905B PCI card 10Mb/s and a 5port switch) I have pretty good download speeds (at least for dialup, especially compared to <well you know>).

Quote (dare2dreamer @ Sep. 26 2005,15:04)

I got a toshiba 440 CDT here. Added 64 megs of ram, and am planning on converting it over to compact flash sometime soon.

For all the tech toys I play with, I keep coming back to it as the most reliable machine I've ever used. Only thing I had to do was add some modprobe info to bootlocal.sh to get the sound going.

What driver did you need to modprobe for the sound to work?
Thanks!

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