Lenovo T-61 too old for Belenos?

Does it remain black screen? I believe that's what happens on newer kernels with some radeons. Don't know if there is a workaround.

You can find out your hardware with the

lspci

command.

Here's a workaround (not the world's best, though): When Toutatis reaches EOL, change the repository entries in the /etc/apt/sources.list file to

http://oldarchive.trisquel.info/trisquel toutatis main

(and of course, do the same for toutatis-security and toutatis-updates)
since the Toutatis contents of archive.trisquel.info would be moved there by then.

You won't get any updates then, though, and I don't think packages will be patched, etc. That's why I said that it isn't the world's best. (Anyway I'm typing this from a newly installed and updated Trisquel Dagda)

Still, as lembas said, I think you should first run "lspci" and post the results here.

Yep, I get a black screen and can't even run live off the USB stick. :(

Here's lspci:

noordinaryspider@ThinkPad-T61:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 0c)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M-E) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba)
15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)
16:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR5416 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5008 802.11(a)bgn] (rev 01)
noordinaryspider@ThinkPad-T61:~$ ^C

This is a workhorse, but not my only workhorse, so I greatly appreciate David's advice on keeping her out of the landfill and usable for some, but not all, of my day to day life needs.

Of course I fixed grub this morning so it would boot straight to 3.14 without holding down the shift key. Even I am not that lazy. ;)

Triskel is actually running quite nicely in Aqemu on my (family's shared) desktop now. I'm not a huge fan of KDE4, but LXDE installed just fine and I can live with that so I have my playtoy now even though it's virtual and not physical. ;)

After a good night's sleep, I think the biggest problem is my ego. I'm in a different place in life than I was ten years ago when I enjoyed being an early adaptor.

The laptop isn't the only one who's getting old, and I'm probably better off accepting the gifts of time and expertise that Ruben, Jason, and the rest of you are offering me. My own energies might be better spent on the forums answering those time consuming newbie questions that can get repetitive, but are only boring if you don't allow yourself to see the unique, individual human stories behind each outwardly identical post.

So many of my contemporaries are at a place where they reply to my own simple questions with, "My son told me to tell you to tell your son to just buy you an iPad."

At least I don't live in that world. :D

Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions in a respectful manner that will help me to stay free.

Anyway, what problem did you exactly have with Belenos? Is it "simply" that the LiveCD underutilises your RAM (which in that case I think I recall another distro in which its Live CD would see less RAM than there actually is, but everything becomes fine once the OS is installed).

And having searched for "Ubuntu trusty lenovo t61 problems" I found this result which might interest you http://askubuntu.com/questions/459733/ubuntu-14-04-does-not-run-on-ibm-thinkpad-t61

I get a black screen and can't even run live. It looks like a video card issue to me, but somebody more knowledgeable would have to confirm or deny my suspicions. I had to change the default video card on Aquemu to see the cursor on Triskel. This is a separate issue than the kernel problem I was having with Toutatis, since the pre-release of Triskel shipped with 3.13 and the lappy is back to it's old self with 3.14.

I understand that mini may not be a priority for the developers so it might be worth another try with the official release and I do have an old CRT monitor I could use to try the trick in the article.

Hardware is much less expensive these days, but money is not always the only motivation for keeping older machines useful and out of landfills. I'm certainly up for stretching my knowledge a bit and doing some research and some tinkering if anyone can point me in the right direction.

I fell completely in love with Brigantia when I decided it was time to move to a FSF endorsed distro, but waited for a LTS before taking the plunge. I believe I have years, rather than months, before Toutatis is unsupported but I can't seem to find the page with the exact date right now.

I'm not asking you to start over but if you ever want/need to (which I doubt will happen, but anyway) perhaps a Netinstall or Debootstrap will serve you.

(Debootstrap will probably require a lot of learning, though)(And Netinstall might involve a network cable, or perhaps USB tethering, for the first steps during and after netinstall, while Debootstrap can be done from a LiveCD),

After the base install, install xorg, trisquel-base, a desktop environment (LXDE, XFCE, etc), and a DM (LightDM, LXDM, GDM, etc), gvfs (useful for making the file manager see other filesystems, a USB drive, etc), ntfs-3gthen everything else you may need (i.e. libreoffice) with apt-get.