this is another episode of “GNU Linux saves old hardware from the dumpster”
strange (GHOST IN THE GPU) anomalies have been spotted X-D
the good:
- IT JUST WORKS 🙂
- the onboard GPU can actually display the full resolution of a 19″ display (1920×1080) of the Gnome2 MATE Desktop
the bad:
- the working speed is (obviously) not the greatest
- boot time is like: 15sec for BIOS, 60sec for GNU Linux Debian 10 MATE (to Desktop) (refused to detect OCZ SSD so installed a Model Number: SAMSUNG SP1614C 160GB (also old and slow)
benchmark:
- benchmark_md5sum.sh (the time it takes to compute md5 checksum of a 1GByte file full of zeros, so a combination of harddisk and cpu) completed in real 0m44.214s (0m24.353s for the computing)
hardware detection script says:
======== MOTHERBOARD MODEL P4M900T-M2 ======== HAPPYNESS WITH HARDWARE SUPPORT very_well ======== OS VERSION AND KERNEL Linux debian10 4.19.0-16-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.181-1 (2021-03-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux 10.9 ======== WORKING-SPEED not_good ======== ANY COMMENTS? core2duo_2007_1GB_of_RAM ======== DATE 2021-04-05 ======== lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian Address sizes: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual CPU(s): 2 On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 2 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 15 Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6420 @ 2.13GHz Stepping: 6 CPU MHz: 1600.269 CPU max MHz: 2128.0000 CPU min MHz: 1596.0000 BogoMIPS: 4255.99 Virtualization: VT-x L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 4096K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0,1 Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl cpuid aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm pti tpr_shadow dtherm ======== lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host Bridge 00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host Bridge 00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host Bridge 00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host Bridge 00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host Bridge 00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 I/O APIC Interrupt Controller 00:00.6 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Security Device 00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge 00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller (rev 80) 00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller (rev 80) 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/8251 Serial ATA Controller 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07) 00:10.0 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev b0) 00:10.1 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev b0) 00:10.2 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev b0) 00:10.3 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev b0) 00:10.4 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 90) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237S PCI to ISA Bridge 00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/8251 Ultra VLINK Controller 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102/VT6103 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c) 00:13.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 [Chrome 9 HC] (rev 01) 80:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A/VT8251 HDA Controller (rev 10) ======== GET INFO ABOUT RAM MODULES SIZE AND NUMBERS dmidecode -t 17 # dmidecode 3.2 Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs. SMBIOS 2.5 present. Handle 0x0029, DMI type 17, 27 bytes Memory Device Array Handle: 0x0027 Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: Unknown Data Width: Unknown Size: No Module Installed Form Factor: DIMM Set: None Locator: DIMM0 Bank Locator: BANK0 Type: Unknown Type Detail: Unknown Speed: Unknown Manufacturer: Manufacturer0 Serial Number: SerNum0 Asset Tag: AssetTagNum0 Part Number: PartNum0 Handle 0x002B, DMI type 17, 27 bytes Memory Device Array Handle: 0x0027 Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: 64 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: 1024 MB Form Factor: DIMM Set: None Locator: DIMM1 Bank Locator: BANK1 Type: DDR2 Type Detail: Synchronous Speed: Unknown Manufacturer: Manufacturer1 Serial Number: SerNum1 Asset Tag: AssetTagNum1 Part Number: PartNum1
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