Yesterday, 04:32 PM
Appreciate the response. I'll give it another go on the weekend maybe and see if I can't get it working. I will note that my 600X has ~448mb of RAM I think (max of 576mb iirc) so that's just a tad past the 'limit' you found (though that may have changed, who knows). X on the live environment actually runs just fine once everything is uncompressed, and the neomagic video drivers on debian were even updated as recently as 2023 surprisingly.
I will also note that since posting, I've tried both PuppyLinux (bookworm edition) and Adelie Linux (LXQT I think), both have not worked for various reasons. With PuppyLinux, I thought the issue was the vesa graphics driver so I put the neomagic xorg drivers on a USB and installed them before launching the live environment, but the keyboard and mouse were completely unresponsive either way. On Adelie Linux, I couldn't even get into a live environment, it was just stuck loading sddm forever.
Might just bite the bullet and install gentoo if I can't get DSL to work after trying the stuff you mentioned here, at least that way I can go step-by-step and hopefully have a better idea of what's giving me issues here. I just want an old Linux laptop that I can work on without being distracted by the modern web
I will also note that since posting, I've tried both PuppyLinux (bookworm edition) and Adelie Linux (LXQT I think), both have not worked for various reasons. With PuppyLinux, I thought the issue was the vesa graphics driver so I put the neomagic xorg drivers on a USB and installed them before launching the live environment, but the keyboard and mouse were completely unresponsive either way. On Adelie Linux, I couldn't even get into a live environment, it was just stuck loading sddm forever.
Might just bite the bullet and install gentoo if I can't get DSL to work after trying the stuff you mentioned here, at least that way I can go step-by-step and hopefully have a better idea of what's giving me issues here. I just want an old Linux laptop that I can work on without being distracted by the modern web