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automatic shutdown in windows xp blank screen with IBM T20


I am a happy owner of an IBM Thinkpad T20. provided by the employer in 2000 and redeemed during an exchange machines. Pentium 3, 384M RAM, 750MHz, a USB1.0, CDRW, SD card reader, pcmcia. After 8 years, which has been treated very badly, it works like a dream. Only the CD a few problems: The contacts that dancing is not always recognized. Having a car
anzianotta available to me to try a certain operating system
. Surely to learn, but also to be in order. Why obtain software illegally when there is an alternative as much, if not more valid? But if the alternative is equally concerned about the compatibility of obsolete machines, when the market leader offers a new version
that assumes to renew the hardware, I would say that it is reasonable that comes into play also the ecological and economic component. Why waste and waste that is when I have more than enough? So, in short, the T20 runs xubuntu

. Until only a few firefox tabs and when you want to see a video you have the foresight to close as many applications, the responsiveness of the PC is more than acceptable. One thing is very interesting to see the reactions that makes using the other half. Of course, browsing, web mail, and a little 'office. Some mumble the vision of openoffice ("Why do not excel there?", "But this word is not it?"), But all in all a reaction quite soft and no "give me back windows." Of course, now that is return to the use of PCs, I can not do too many tests on distributions ("but because sometimes change everything? you can not leave just one way?"). I'd be curious to try the version of incoming

opensuse

, the first distro tested and abandoned when, I do not know in what condition, appeared a funny behavior that I could not solve. The bug was as follows. Randomly not start the X server. That is, every 2 to 3 boot the screen goes black and there was no way to unlock the PC if not press the reset button ignition by a fine. So after a few days of shaking the head passed to the "soldering". First with the same version of opensuse (the 11.0), then, since the bug remained, with ubuntu 8.04. That solved the problem. That have recurred after the 'upgrade to 8.10.

At this point, the problem was not the distribution, but of something else. Google here, Google there, it turns out this

. So, question the interaction between the Savage video card and Xorg. The surface gauge (workaround) to fix everything is to add in the Device section Xorg.con file (located in / etc / xorg.conf) the two lines: Option "BusType" "PCI" Option "DmaMode" "None"
Et voila. All returned operating like new. Through the network, thanks to the community, thanks to Linux, a good old PC still works.