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This computer I got recently can only seem to handle up to Ubuntu version 11.10 (it was super cheap and the hard drive isn’t recognized) and therefore I cannot install the Steam (gaming social network) software from the Ubuntu Software Center. WHen I was installing Steam, it told me that it depended on a newer version of libc6 and curl. I was able to easily install curl, but when I tried installing a newer version of libc6, I got this:

So, it needs itself to install itself. what do I do?

Re: Upgrading libc6 in 11.10

Have you considered a fresh install of Lubuntu 13.04?

Re: Upgrading libc6 in 11.10

What’s the difference between this and Ubuntu 11.10, and would this computer likely handle it?

Re: Upgrading libc6 in 11.10

Any have any option I can take that wouldn’t require switching my version of Linux?

Re: Upgrading libc6 in 11.10

There is no better Long Term Solution. Version 11.10 has reach End Of Life, and as such is no longer supported. It is most strongly recommended to upgrade to a current version. Version 12.04 (the current LTS) is supported ’till the year 2017.
see:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades
for details to make this happen.

Re: Upgrading libc6 in 11.10

This computer can’t handle Ubuntu 12.10.

Last edited by Ultimatefry; September 5th, 2013 at 09:38 PM .

Re: Upgrading libc6 in 11.10

Ultimatefry; Umph ,, should have reread the thread . my bad.

Still, the better solution is to install a current version .. I — like mцrgжs — suggest lubuntu, if you have as much as 512 Megs of ram. Else there does exist even lighter versions of linux.
I personally like and endorse lubuntu.
All it will cost you is a bit of time and a blank CD to try and see if lubuntu will work for you.
from the links at top of page ->ubuntu community
download the .iso
burn the .iso as a «image», slow burn rate
set in bios to boot the cd as 1st priority
boot the liveCD -> try ubuntu

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I need help with changing my screen resolution. i have seen some of the other posts but nothing helps and i dont want to end up with a blank screen from changing to the wrong res. i know it is capable of doing 1280×800 and that is what i want.

i have tried what i have seen on other forums
sudo dpkg-configure xserver-xorg

but that just does something with my key board

i am a bit new to this so please be gentle hehe but i did get my wireless working and that was an amazing thing. the laptop is blazing fast with ubunto and i love it i just want a little more.

i am also unable to add the visual effects for some reason but i think there is a decent graphics card in this old laptop of mine

Last edited by dallas000; October 7th, 2008 at 03:09 PM .

Re: ACER ASPIRE 3000 screen resolution

I need help with changing my screen resolution. i have seen some of the other posts but nothing helps and i dont want to end up with a blank screen from changing to the wrong res. i know it is capable of doing 1280×800 and that is what i want.

i have tried what i have seen on other forums
sudo dpkg-configure xserver-xorg

but that just does something with my key board

i am a bit new to this so please be gentle hehe but i did get my wireless working and that was an amazing thing. the laptop is blazing fast with ubunto and i love it i just want a little more.

i am also unable to add the visual effects for some reason but i think there is a decent graphics card in this old laptop of mine

Hi and welcome, what is the model of the graphics card? You can find the model by using the command lspci in the terminal located under applications accessories. Look for VGA. It sounds like you need the drivers for your graphics card and as for the desktop effects you may look at the FAQ’s link in my signature.

Re: ACER ASPIRE 3000 screen resolution

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760 Host (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC’97 Modem Controller (rev a0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC’97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
00:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
00:0b.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter

thats what i got when i did that

Last edited by dallas000; October 9th, 2008 at 10:31 PM .

Re: ACER ASPIRE 3000 screen resolution

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760 Host (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC’97 Modem Controller (rev a0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC’97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
00:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
00:0b.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter

thats what i got when i did that

Re: ACER ASPIRE 3000 screen resolution

it still says its limited to 1024×768

i know that i can get 1200×800

i also would like to enable the desktop effects

thanks for the help

Re: ACER ASPIRE 3000 screen resolution

I would like to install the graphics card drivers on my system.

I am trying to get the hardware acceleration to work. (example is that Google Earth only works in opengl software emulation; so slow)

How do I install the video driver for the following system:
============================================
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760 Host (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (r
ev 25)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC’97 Modem Controller (rev a0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC’97 Soun
d Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev
0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev
0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Et
hernet (rev 91)
00:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
00:0b.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.
11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTra
nsport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address
Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Con
troller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscella
neous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760
PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter
================================================== ===

I have the SiS driver for Windows XP that came with the laptop.

Re: ACER ASPIRE 3000 screen resolution

I,m assuming you have an Aspire 3000?

Have you upgraded the memory,default installation is only 256Mb.

AS the graphics chip uses shared system memory this may well be your problem. Upgrade if possible to 2Gb.

Windows Drivers are no good for linux. Sis Drivers are supplied via Xorg.

Re: ACER ASPIRE 3000 screen resolution

I have the maximum memory available installed. Are there any drivers that will improve the performance of my video card?

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Two Epic Fails Trying to Install Mint on an Old Acer Aspire 3000 Laptop

stevefoobar

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I’m really trying to use Mint Xfce on my old Acer Aspire Laptop because I heard it’s a good lightweight, trouble-free version with most (if not all) common drivers and apps included.

Sadly, I may have to look for another distro after two installation failures.

The first attempt was Mint 15 ISO burn to DVD. The DVD didn’t even load properly upon boot. I got just a blinking cursor in the upper left corner of the screen! Of course, I did a check-sum and burn verification in Nero first and the DVD reads fine on my desktop WinXP PC.

The second attempt was after learning about a very cool app called UNetbootin http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/. I downloaded and used this app and this time let it download Mint 15 with Cinnamon and I selected the hard drive boot option. Upon reboot, it did start to load Mint it appeared but lines were scrolling too fast for me to see and I thought I saw a line that said something about «not found». It did continue to scroll lines however, but eventually just locked up on a line that reads:

Does anyone have any ideas or tips or should I just abandon Mint for another distro? Any ideas for another distro that’s light enough for an old Acer Aspire 3000 Laptop?

Hardware
CPU: AMD Sempron 1.6 GHz
GPU: SiS M760GX
HD: 40 GB
Wireless: Broadcom 802.11g
Ethernet: SiS 900-Based PCI Fast Ethernet

ryanvade

Guest

During the 10 second count down during boot press a key. Then press the Tab key to edit the boot parameters, and on the line of text that appeared near the bottom append the word «nomodeset» (without the quotes). Then continue the boot and see if that will allow you to boot successfully.

If not, repeat the same action but in the boot menu first press the down arrow key to highlight the second entry in the menu (compatibility mode). Then in instead of adding nomodeset add «nomodeset acpi=off nolapic» (again, without the quotes).

stevefoobar

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arochester

Guest

The linking cursor usually means a problem with your video card. You said that your video card was a SiS M760GX. One solution is shown at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=100720#p100720

Other answers are probably to be found in Ubuntu Forums. (Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu.) Unfortunately Ubuntu Forums has been hacked and is off-line at the moment.

I had similar problems with an Intel Video. I came across on distro, Crunchbang Linux, which worked out-of-the-box.

stevefoobar

Guest

The linking cursor usually means a problem with your video card. You said that your video card was a SiS M760GX. One solution is shown at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=100720#p100720

Other answers are probably to be found in Ubuntu Forums. (Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu.) Unfortunately Ubuntu Forums has been hacked and is off-line at the moment.

I had similar problems with an Intel Video. I came across on distro, Crunchbang Linux, which worked out-of-the-box.

Codypy1

Guest

Personally Mint is just horrible.

With this being a old laptop. Why don’t you grab Lubuntu? It’s very lightweight and ideal for older computer use.

I installed it for a friend using an old old Toshiba laptop that was running windows xp as.
Since I installed it they’ve loved it.

Other distros you could use could be

Crunchbang(I’ve never tried it but I hear positive comments about it)
Xubuntu(IF you want the xfce experience)

If you wanna try these and have any trouble trying to test or install them you can send me a message and I could help you step by step.

stevefoobar

Guest

Personally Mint is just horrible.

With this being a old laptop. Why don’t you grab Lubuntu? It’s very lightweight and ideal for older computer use.

I installed it for a friend using an old old Toshiba laptop that was running windows xp as.
Since I installed it they’ve loved it.

Other distros you could use could be

Crunchbang(I’ve never tried it but I hear positive comments about it)
Xubuntu(IF you want the xfce experience)

If you wanna try these and have any trouble trying to test or install them you can send me a message and I could help you step by step.

stevefoobar

Guest

GAME CHANGER! I finally figured out that the primary problem (I’m sure I’ll find more problems now but at least I can move forward) was that the DVD-ROM drive in this laptop will not read newer DVD+R disks that I’ve been using to create the Linux installations on! On a whim, I decided to dig out an old external USB DVD-RW drive, put the Linux DVD in this external drive, rebooted, and much to my surprise, it saw and started loading Linux!

Now I’ve got to keep testing from here to see which distro and desktop works best (or at all) with the old hardware in this Acer Aspire 3000 laptop.

SLW210

Guest

Biggest problem will be getting your drivers for the Broadcom wireless.

There are several tutorials around depending on exact model.

Codypy1

Guest

GAME CHANGER! I finally figured out that the primary problem (I’m sure I’ll find more problems now but at least I can move forward) was that the DVD-ROM drive in this laptop will not read newer DVD+R disks that I’ve been using to create the Linux installations on! On a whim, I decided to dig out an old external USB DVD-RW drive, put the Linux DVD in this external drive, rebooted, and much to my surprise, it saw and started loading Linux!

Now I’ve got to keep testing from here to see which distro and desktop works best (or at all) with the old hardware in this Acer Aspire 3000 laptop.

Primit1v3

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MikeyD

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tonyl

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pcpunk

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pcpunk

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Rudi Pittman

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I’m using bodhi linux 3.0 32 bit (based on ubuntu 14.04) and it’s working great on my acer aspire 3000 laptop. I maxed the memory to 2gb and put in a 128gb msata ssd with a sata to pata (ide 44 pin) adaptor and performance is great! Be aware bodhi uses the enlightenment desktop which is VERY configurable so if you browse their forums you will see how radically different each person’s desktop can be. I run linux mint 17.1 kde on my desktop and had LM XFCE on the acer up till recently. Here’s a screenshot (you will note that only 800mb is used and thats the whole os with stjerm pull down terminal (like yakuake) and seamonkey browser as well as terminology terminal open with conky showing the net speed):

pcpunk

Guest

Rudi Pittman, this doesn’t help him install?

Steve, you will have to post some screenshots of your drives if you want to resolve this. I’ll show you how if you want. First off, when you boot the livedvd, when the LM screen comes up with the countdown, press Tab quickly > then choose «Compatability Mode» press enter and let it boot.

Here is the issue as I understand it, but looking for a different way to fix it. You need a partiton at the end of your drive that has extra space to use. Then we will have to resize that partition to make room for a new one that you can install Mint on. I deleted the last partition D: > resized C: Drive partition(which is the next one) to allow for the new. It is very easy but you will need help. See, the D artiton that I removed is not really necessary and mine was only 2GB in size. There are some things that I would like you to do before we delete it though so just reply to this and I will get back with ya. Here is the site that tells about the partition that we don’t need D:drive: No go! site won’t let me include link
I fell that it is just a way to keep folks like us from doing just this, I could be wrong, but it surely keeps the noobs like you and i from doing this.
I would love it if we could get the info for that partition before deletion, and you should back up your entire drive before hand. When you boot into live medium go into gparted, find it in the menu, I forget where it is in xfce, but I will look if I have time. It will ask for a password I think, but for a live user just hit enter. Take a screenshot of that with the built in screenshot tool, then post it here.

You also have the choice of installing over XP if you like. There is also one other issue, you will need an ethernet connection to apply some wireless drivers that are not included for this pc, then you will have wireless.

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