<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body >I upgraded a headless server to Ubuntu 14.04 from LTS to LTS without issues at all. It's a fairly decent set of hardware (desktop hardware) 8 gigs of ram, etc. <div><br></div><div>If you don't like having release upgrades have you considered a rolling distro like Gentoo or Arch? </div><br><br><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Dan Armbrust <daniel.armbrust.list@gmail.com> </div><div>Date:11/04/2014 1:47 AM (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org </div><div>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Want an old video card out of your closet? </div><div><br></div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/03/2014 09:00 PM, paul g wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Even AGP works fine with GPU on 14.04.<-- Mint
or Ubuntu.. - Pull up an ' lspci ' in terminal. <br>
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Yea - what I have in there now isn't even that new. Its pure PCI -
close to 20 years old or more. It was the only thing I had after I
swapped hardware around that would work... my "better" retired video
cards were AGP... but this MB doesn't have an AGP slot. Think
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Trio">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Trio</a><br>
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Before the upgrade, it worked, and managed a laughable 640x480.
After the upgrade, the TTYs are all garbled (probably wrong timing)
and while the logon screen works - so X sometimes works - on logon,
it immediately segfaults.<br>
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I'm sure I could fix it... but I just don't care to :)<br>
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Usually with upgrading on an LTS now means --- nothing new is
gonna happen for about 4 years.<br>
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Which is just what I want on this computer. Every time I upgrade
it, I waste a day fixing what they broke :(<br>
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