Paul dd wrote: > > Hello all, > > I bought this netbook in 2014 , it was certificate for linux...but it have > problems with video card GMA3600. > > The netbook have a N2600 cpu with integrated GMA3600 video card, 2 Gbyte ram > , mechanic hard drive 360 Gbyte. > > > I have debian 9 installed i386. I installed 32bit debian version because I > hope in a more > recent video driver, but it was not userfull. > > At first I installed xfce as WM , now I change it with iceWM , and the speed > is slightly more fast. > > Mainly I use this netbook in the terminal, but using firefox to websurf or > watching some video it's too much slow. > > What council you may give me ? I thinked to reinstall debian in amd64 and > after recompile the kernel, excluding all the not userful module inside it, > but the operation take much time > ( expecially reinstall debian , I may recompile the kernel on another debian > machine using cross-compiling). >
Sadly, the video chipset was always badly supported due to a terrible intellectual property issue, which has not gone away. I would strongly recommend getting a replacement. If you can find nearly any other five year old laptop, it will be better supported and reasonably affordable now. Replacing a spinning disk with an SSD makes my 2011 MacBook quite useable these days. -dsr-
