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10 from 1 review(s)
Version: 3.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-04-28
Votes: 1
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My VAIO dates from 2005. Ran Mint 16, but nothing newer, because speakers and headphones started spitting at maximum volume regularly every few seconds. I must have tried 60 different distributions and only found two that didn't spit that I liked, Stella and Point. Point was closely related to Mint, and a little config file borrowed from Mint solved my nvidia driver installation - straight from synaptic. When the Point repositories stopped working I removed them from the sources list and left the debian entries to keep refreshing the systen every so often, and Point still ticks over nicely. It has never suffered from a bug, which is extremely rare in my experience.
The only problem I had with Point had to do with configuring the Xserver for nvidia graphics. I installed "nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms" and before re-starting borrowed the file [xorg.conf] from "/etc/X11" in Mint 16 and pasted it into /etc/X11/ in Point. This worked very well for me.
I just spent a day trying out various older and/or "lighter" distributions, but they all spit. It's in the kernel, polling for "energy saving", and I suspect Laptop Mode, but installing laptop-mode-tools introduced the spits in Point. I couldn't pinpoint a culprit in laptop-mode-tools, and ultimately uninstalled it. It wasn't straightforward.
Anyway, thanks and best regards to the lone developer, may he have a good life. -DL
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Project: Point Linux
Version: 3.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-04-28
Votes: 1
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My VAIO dates from 2005. Ran Mint 16, but nothing newer, because speakers and headphones started spitting at maximum volume regularly every few seconds. I must have tried 60 different distributions and only found two that didn't spit that I liked, Stella and Point. Point was closely related to Mint, and a little config file borrowed from Mint solved my nvidia driver installation - straight from synaptic. When the Point repositories stopped working I removed them from the sources list and left the debian entries to keep refreshing the systen every so often, and Point still ticks over nicely. It has never suffered from a bug, which is extremely rare in my experience.
The only problem I had with Point had to do with configuring the Xserver for nvidia graphics. I installed "nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms" and before re-starting borrowed the file [xorg.conf] from "/etc/X11" in Mint 16 and pasted it into /etc/X11/ in Point. This worked very well for me.
I just spent a day trying out various older and/or "lighter" distributions, but they all spit. It's in the kernel, polling for "energy saving", and I suspect Laptop Mode, but installing laptop-mode-tools introduced the spits in Point. I couldn't pinpoint a culprit in laptop-mode-tools, and ultimately uninstalled it. It wasn't straightforward.
Anyway, thanks and best regards to the lone developer, may he have a good life. -DL
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