EasyOS version 2.3.2, June 22, 2020

[BarryK]

EasyOS version 2.3.2
Released June 22, 2020

Blog announcement and download:
https://bkhome.org/news/202006/easyos-v ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 39#1061439

EasyOS version 2.3.1
Released June 6, 2020

Blog announcement and download:
https://bkhome.org/news/202006/easyos-a ... p-231.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 19#1060319

EasyOS version 2.3
Released May 29, 2020

Blog announcement and download:
https://bkhome.org/news/202005/easyos-v ... eased.html

Forum feedback for 2.3 starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 83#1059283

EasyOS version 2.2.16
Released April 6, 2020

Blog announcement and download:
https://bkhome.org/news/202004/easyos-v ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 80#1054780

EasyOS version 2.2.14
Released March 27, 2020

Blog announcement and download:
https://bkhome.org/news/202003/easyos-v ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 14#1053814

EasyOS version 2.2.12
Released March 3, 2020

Blog announcement and download:
https://bkhome.org/news/202003/easyos-v ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 85#1051785

EasyOS version 2.2.11
Released February 21, 2020

Blog announcement and download:
https://bkhome.org/news/202002/easyos-v ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 01#1050801

EasyOS version 2.2.10
Released February 13, 2020

Blog announcement:
https://bkhome.org/news/202002/easyos-v ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 26#1050226

EasyOS version 2.2.9
Released February 11, 2020

Blog announcement:
https://bkhome.org/news/202002/easyos-v ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 23#1050123

EasyOS Buster 2.2.5
Released January 22, 2020

Blog announcement:
https://bkhome.org/news/202001/easyos-v ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 41#1048441

EasyOS Buster 2.2, Pyro 1.3
Released December 27, 2019

Blog announcements:
https://bkhome.org/news/201912/easy-bus ... eased.html
https://bkhome.org/news/201912/easy-pyr ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 24#1045724

EasyOS Pyro 1.2.9, Buster 2.1.9
Both released December 9, 2019

Blog announcements:
https://bkhome.org/news/201912/easy-pyr ... eased.html
https://bkhome.org/news/201912/easy-bus ... eased.html

Fprum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 06#1044106

EasyOS Pyro 1.2.8, Buster 2.1.8
Both released November 6, 2019

Blog announcement and download link:
https://bkhome.org/news/201911/easy-pyr ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 13#1041113

EasyOS Pyro 1.2.7, Buster 2.1.7
Both released October 21, 2019

Blog announcement and download link:
https://bkhome.org/news/201910/easy-pyr ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 08#1040108

EasyOS Buster 2.1.6
Released October 9, 2019

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201910/easyos-bu ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 32#1039032

EasyOS Pyro 1.2.5
Released October 8, 2019

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201910/easyos-py ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 56#1038956

Easy Pyro 1.2.3, Buster 2.1.3
Released September 15, 2019

Blog announcements:
http://bkhome.org/news/201909/easyos-py ... eased.html
http://bkhome.org/news/201909/easyos-bu ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 68#1037068

Easy Buster 2.1.1
Released September 5, 2019

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201909/easy-bust ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 70#1036170

Easy Buster version 2.1
Released August 25, 2019

Blog announcement and download:
http://bkhome.org/news/201908/easy-bust ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 24#1035324

Easy Pyro version 1.2
Released August 25, 2019

Blog announcement and download:
http://bkhome.org/news/201908/easy-pyro ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 07#1035307

EasyOS Buster-series version 2.0
Released August 7, 2019

Blog announcement and download:
http://bkhome.org/news/201908/easy-bust ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 73#1033873

EasyOS version 1.0.92 (1.1RC)
Released July 19, 2019
includes English, German and French builds.

Blog announcement and download:
http://bkhome.org/news/201907/easyos-ve ... -11rc.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 17#1032517

EasyOS version 1.0.14
Released March 15, 2019

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201903/easyos-ve ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 38#1021838

EasyOS version 1.0.13
Released March 14, 2019

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201903/easyos-ve ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 83#1021783

EasyOS version 1.0.11
Released March 8, 2019

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201903/easyos-x8 ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 40#1020940

EasyOS version 1.0.8
Released February 20, 2019

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201902/easyos-x8 ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 66#1019066

EasyOS version 1.0
Released January 19, 2019

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201901/easyos-ve ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 78#1015978

EasyOS version 0.9.18
Released January 11, 2019
With German language build, more languages to come.

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201901/easyos-09 ... build.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 17#1015117

EasyOS version 0.9.14
Released December 18, 2018

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201812/easyos-ve ... eased.html

Forum feedback:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 06#1013306

EasyOS 0.9.10
Released December 5, 2018

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201812/easyos-ve ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 92#1012192

EasyOS 0.9.9
Released November 24, 2018

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201811/easyos-ve ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 30#1011130
Also here:
https://easyos.org/forum/index.php?topic=34.0

EasyOS 0.9.8
Released November 14, 2018

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201811/easyos-098-released.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 54#1010054

EasyOS Pyro64-series 0.9.7
Released October 14, 2018

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201810/easyos-097-released.html

Forum feedback:
https://easyos.org/forum/index.php?topic=15.0

EasyOS "Easy Beaver" 64-bit 0.9.4
Released September 21, 2018

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201809/easy-beav ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 22#1005322

EasyOS "Easy Beaver" 64-bit 0.9.3
Released September 19, 2018

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201809/easy-beav ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 40#1005040

EasyOS Pyro32 32-bit 0.9.6
Released August 22, 2018

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201808/easyos-32 ... n-096.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 57#1002657

EasyOS Pyro 0.9.6 (64-bit)
Released August 5, 2018

Blog announcement, with d/l link:
http://bkhome.org/news/201808/easyos-ve ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 27#1001327

EasyOS Pyro (64-bit) 0.9.5
Released July 23, 2018

Blog announcement, with d/l link:
http://bkhome.org/news/201807/easyos-ve ... eased.html

Forum feedback for 0.9.5 starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 767#999767

Easy Pyro (64-bit) 0.9.3
Released May 26, 2018

Blog announcement, with d/l link:
http://bkhome.org/news/201805/easy-pyro ... eased.html

Forum feedback thread starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 151#993151

EasyOS Beaver 64-bit 0.9.2
Released May 15, 2018

Blog announcement, with d/l link:
http://bkhome.org/news/201805/easy-beav ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 099#992099

EasyOS Pyro64 0.9.1
Released May 7, 2018

Blog announcement, with d/l links:
http://bkhome.org/news/201805/easyos-py ... n-091.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 990#990990

EasyOS Pyro64 0.9
Released April 15, 2018

Blog announcement, with d/l links:
http://bkhome.org/news/201804/easyos-py ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 694#988694

EasyOS Pyro64 0.8.1
Released March 14, 2018

Blog announcement and download:
http://bkhome.org/news/201803/easyos-py ... eased.html

Forum feedback:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 430#985430

EasyOS Pyro64 0.8
Released March 1, 2018

Blog announcement and download:
http://bkhome.org/news/201803/easyos-py ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 384#984384

Easy Pyro64 0.7
Released January 17, 2018

Blog announcement and download link:
http://bkhome.org/news/201801/easyos-py ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 482#980482

Easy Xerus64 0.6.8
Released January 4, 2018
Built with Ubuntu Xenial Xerus DEBs

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201801/easyos-xe ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 233#979233

Easy Pyro64 0.6.6
Released January 2, 2018 ...Happy New Year!

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201801/easyos-py ... eased.html

Forum feedback begins here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 997#978997

Easy 0.6.4
Released December 18, 2017

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/news/201712/easy-os-p ... eased.html

Forum feedback starts on page 23:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 657#977657

Easy 0.5
Released October 02, 2017

Announcement here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 729#969729

Easy 0.4
Released August 27, 2017

Announcement here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 700#965700

Easy 0.3
Released May 29, 2017

Blog announcement, with download links:
http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00557

Forum feedback starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 960#955960

Easy 0.2
I guess that I can post this under the Puppy Derivatives category, coz it is a descendant/branch/fork of Puppy. Yet very different in some ways.

It is best to read my How Easy Works page to get an idea how similar and different Easy is:
http://barryk.org/easy/how-easy-works.htm

I have been traveling, 6 weeks in India, got back about a week ago. As time allowed, worked on Easy Linux, however, it has been very stop-start.
Now that I am home, hope to get moving on it again.

If you feel like trying Easy, let me know your experiences.

Bear in mind that some aspects are immature, very pre-alpha. It may even turn out that some aspects are impractical or will need major changes.

I posted to my blog, with some install notes, and download link:
http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00515

[ally]

mirrored here: http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_Easy_Linux

[drunkjedi]

Aah you were in India?
Came anywhere near Pune, Maharashtra?
You missed Holi, festival of colors which was this week.

Anyway I will test Easy tomorrow.

[Sage]

Incredibly slow d/l from ally, still going after 30mins!
Started reading the BK how-to whilst waiting. Had to laugh: Easy Linux !
Almost as difficult as explaining DNA editing to a guy with a degree in Spanish Literature. Been working with computers over half-a-century but eyes started glazing over after l.16 or was it l.23 !
Never easy to talk shop to folks out of one's own loop....
And, just what is the issue about .iso and running as a liveCD? Doesn't get much simpler? If all else fails, that can be installed as FULL or Frugal to other media. Sounds simple to this simpleton.

[Keef]

Seems a lot snappier than Quirky Xerus, but maybe partly due to using a different usb stick. No problems so far.

-Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz
Memory : 2054MB (331MB used)
-Display-
Resolution : 1280x800 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on NV84
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel

[DanielSong39]

If this OS can run both 32-bit and 64-bit programs, I'm definitely going to try it out!

[BarryK]

Seems a lot snappier than Quirky Xerus, but maybe partly due to using a different usb stick. No problems so far.

Yeah, having a fast USB stick can make a huge difference.

Also, if 'q.sfs' got loaded into RAM at bootup, operation will be very snappy. Easy will do that if it decides there is enough RAM, or decides that the USB stick is very slow.
-- so you might be getting snappy performance even with a slow memory stick.

[BarryK]

If this OS can run both 32-bit and 64-bit programs, I'm definitely going to try it out!

The kernel supports running both, but I have not included any 32-bit shared libs in the build. They would be available in the Ubuntu DEB repo though, I supposed.

Statically compiled 32-bit apps will run, since they don't need any shared libs.

[slavvo67]

BarryK:

She's running pretty good on my old Dell. A few quick notes and a few questions I hope you can help with (maybe unrelated to Easy):

1. Disappointed in the look... where's the glaring green or obnoxious orange? (kidding of course)...

2. It could be my imagination but looks like Seamonkey (container version) boots slightly slower than regular. Can't really tell them apart, otherwise.

3. Multimedia- Default not set or not working right. VLC not playing vids - only audio and shuts off early. SimpleVP similar results.

4. Easy containers need some instruction in the Question Mark. Afraid to test it without knowing what I'm doing... lol

Geany seems fine, Librewriter looks great, LibreCalc... good... Terminal in container working okay.

A few non-related thingos:

I downloaded your scripts to compile kernels but didn't have much luck. The scripts seem similar to the Woof scripts but didn't create the VMLinux (I think it was) or didn't put it in the proper place. I don't recall. I'll have to try again and report.

Also, tried multiple times in creating a contact and pw. on your website to PM - I always receive the e-mail pw but it never works when I try to login.

Also, did your Quirky Xerus Kernels support 32bit and 64bit too?

Anyway, thanks for another nice distro. Seems like it's not quite beta yet but a nice start....

...Oh, one last thing: I installed on a USB drive that had already been partitioned with Quirky Xerus. At first boot, Easy started doing its thing and did some automated reformatting of the 2nd partition to get it working right. Scared me at first... I thought it might be installing to my hard drive... but all okay and it ultimately booted properly with no negative affects noted.

Slavvo67

[BarryK]

BarryK:

She's running pretty good on my old Dell. A few quick notes and a few questions I hope you can help with (maybe unrelated to Easy):

1. Disappointed in the look... where's the glaring green or obnoxious orange? (kidding of course)...

2. It could be my imagination but looks like Seamonkey (container version) boots slightly slower than regular. Can't really tell them apart, otherwise.

3. Multimedia- Default not set or not working right. VLC not playing vids - only audio and shuts off early. SimpleVP similar results.

4. Easy containers need some instruction in the Question Mark. Afraid to test it without knowing what I'm doing... lol

Geany seems fine, Librewriter looks great, LibreCalc... good... Terminal in container working okay.

A few non-related thingos:

I downloaded your scripts to compile kernels but didn't have much luck. The scripts seem similar to the Woof scripts but didn't create the VMLinux (I think it was) or didn't put it in the proper place. I don't recall. I'll have to try again and report.

Also, tried multiple times in creating a contact and pw. on your website to PM - I always receive the e-mail pw but it never works when I try to login.

Also, did your Quirky Xerus Kernels support 32bit and 64bit too?

Anyway, thanks for another nice distro. Seems like it's not quite beta yet but a nice start....

...Oh, one last thing: I installed on a USB drive that had already been partitioned with Quirky Xerus. At first boot, Easy started doing its thing and did some automated reformatting of the 2nd partition to get it working right. Scared me at first... I thought it might be installing to my hard drive... but all okay and it ultimately booted properly with no negative affects noted.

Slavvo67

I haven't had the opportunity to test VLC. The only change I made compared with Quirky, was added libcrystalhd, that it was reported on the Quirky forum thread is missing.

Try running "vlc" in a terminal, see if it outputs an error msg when try to run a video.

Yes, I understand the scare!
It is pretty safe code though, I doubt that it would do anything bad to your hard drive or whatever. It just fixes the GUID partition tables, and creates a second partition to fill the flash drive.
I could probably cut down the verbosity of it, so no one sees the "scary" bits.

Yes, the Quirky 4.4.x kernel also supports both 32-bit and 64-bit executables, but same problem with missing 32-bit libs.

Note, Easy is using kernel 4.10.1.

[BarryK]

2. It could be my imagination but looks like Seamonkey (container version) boots slightly slower than regular. Can't really tell them apart, otherwise.

Haven't compared. Not sure why that would be.

One thing to note about SeaMonkey, the menu font is too big.
Fix it by editing this file:

/root/.mozilla/seamonkey/3o1ptd5r.default/chrome/userChrome.css

Edit this line:

font-size: 12pt !important;

Don't have access to Easy right now, but try change "pt" to "px" (points to pixels), or reduce the font size.

[BarryK]

I think maybe, next thing I will do is get Easy going on the Raspberry Pi. It should be pretty straightforward.

I took my Pi3 to India and back, but never used it!
Oh well, the good intention was there!

[BarryK]

Aah you were in India?
Came anywhere near Pune, Maharashtra?
You missed Holi, festival of colors which was this week.

Anyway I will test Easy tomorrow.

I was in the north -- Delhi, Rishikesh, Allahabad.

I didn't completely miss Holi, even though I departed on the 8th. I stayed with some Indian friends for a couple of days before flying home, and just before i left for the airport, they smeared some colour on my face and took photos of me -- I was dressed to travel, in my only clean outfit, so grumbled a bit -- but I understand that it is a great celebration in India.

[slavvo67]

Okay. I broke the Seamonkey in Container. It worked the first few times and then, nothing. I installed right-click tools; not sure if it created some sort of conflict. Not sure how to boot Seamonkey container without the Menu so she's a goner.... for now.

Already after the above, I changed 12pt to 12px. Seems like it took longer with that fix... maybe I need to reboot first.

VLC is not working in terminal. I'm receiving the following errors:

Pulse Audio Server Connection Failure and Skins2 Interface Error. No Suitable Dialog Provider Found.

It hints to Compile QT4 plugin and make sure it's loaded properly.

I'm not sure if you've seen this, before. I'll try to find more info.

[Philh]

I couldnt get any video or audio with vlc or pmusic.

I tried audacious from the package manager and audio worked ok.

Galculator needs libquadmath.

I tried using the usb image tool.
But it wouldnt write to a used flash drive. It didnt like the previous efi boot partition.
After formatting the drive the usb image tool worked ok.

[jd7654]

Installed to small 2GB SD card, in mini USB reader. Loaded and running well on two older dual core systems.

Same problems as others observed with VLC. Is this the same workaround required as Quirky 8.1.6 with the package name hack? Didn't try that yet. Just tried installing MPV and SMPlayer and that works fine.

Also some problems with speaker volume control. Always have to fiddle with it on this laptop with analog on 2nd card, but couldn't make it work here. Alsamixer worked though, to raise level and unmute, just not tray speaker icon control. Video and Youtube worked fine.

▶—— BASE SYSTEM ——◀

PC Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
Product Name: HP Pavilion dm1 Notebook PC
...
AMD E-350 Processor
Max Speed: 1600 MHz
Current Speed of Core 0:1600 MHz, 1:800 MHz
Core Count: 2
Thread Count: 2
...
Actual Used RAM: 196 MB Used - (buffers + cached)
Actual Free RAM: 3362 MB Free + (buffers + cached)
...
Linux Kernel: 4.10.1 (x86_64)
Kernel Version: #1 SMP Sun Mar 5 03:02:32 GMT-8 2017

Distro: Easy Linux 0.2
Window Manager: JWM vgit-976
Desktop Start: xwin jwm

▶—— DISPLAY ——◀

Display Specifications:
• Monitor VertRefresh: 60.03 times/s
• Screen Dimensions: 1366x768 pixels (361x203 millimeters)
• Screen Depth: 24 bits (planes)

Xorg Startup Log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
• Xorg Driver in use: ati
• Loaded Modules: dbe dri2 evdev exa extmod fb fbdevhw glx radeon ramdac synaptics
• X.Org version: 1.18.3

▶—— MULTIMEDIA ——◀

Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wrestler HDMI Audio [1002:1314]
Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383] (rev 40)


# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 1429676 533108 880184 38% /mnt/sdb2

[l0wt3ch]

Genius!

This is extremely exciting.

[BarryK]

Okay. I broke the Seamonkey in Container. It worked the first few times and then, nothing. I installed right-click tools; not sure if it created some sort of conflict. Not sure how to boot Seamonkey container without the Menu so she's a goner.... for now.

You can do it from a terminal:

Just in case it is still running:

# stop-container seamonkey

This will start the container and launch seamonkey:

# ec-chroot seamonkey

Also, it should be possible to run seamonkey, or any app, from within the "sh0" container.

[jd7654]

Experienced a hard hang on 2nd laptop test system. Worked initially, but after installing a just a few things, hangs with black screen or frozen mouse pointer on black screen at late stage of bootup.

Only installed B43 firmware, configured networking, and installed MPV/SMPlayer and browsed and played some videos I think. Will go back later and see if I can reproduce.

For now, I was trying something else. Tested with a VirtualBox install onto VHD, and that went fine, fully functional. Then with a few things tested there, did a manual hard drive install on the laptop. Copied boot and work files into existing Windows and Quirky partitions respectively, edited BOOT_SPECS, and looks to be functioning fine.(much faster than the USB)

This time, tried the zvlc hack and that did get the VLC program to launch, but getting h.264 error when trying to play MP4 video. This workaround did work in Quirky 8.1.6.



▶—— BASE SYSTEM ——◀

PC Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: Inspiron 1520

Motherboard Vendor: Dell Inc.
Product Name: 0KY767
...
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5250 @ 1.50GHz
Max Speed: 1500 MHz
Current Speed of Core 0:1000 MHz, 1:1500 MHz
Core Count: 2
Thread Count: 2
...
Actual Used RAM: 200 MB Used - (buffers + cached)
Actual Free RAM: 1798 MB Free + (buffers + cached)

Linux Kernel: 4.10.1 (x86_64)
Kernel Version: #1 SMP Sun Mar 5 03:02:32 GMT-8 2017

Distro: Easy Linux 0.2
Window Manager: JWM vgit-976
Desktop Start: xwin jwm

▶—— DISPLAY ——◀

Display Specifications:
• Monitor VertRefresh: 59.94 times/s
• Screen Dimensions: 1280x800 pixels (338x211 millimeters)
• Screen Depth: 24 bits (planes)

Xorg Startup Log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
• Xorg Driver in use: intel
• Loaded Modules: dbe dri2 evdev extmod fbdevhw glx present synaptics
• X.Org version: 1.18.3
...
VGA compatible controller:
• Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c)

▶—— MULTIMEDIA ——◀

Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 02)

[L18L]

Formerly my computer was running with video driver modesetting only.

drm can be enabled now but kernel needs to be configured for EDID.

Kernel configuration contains:

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#
# Direct Rendering Manager
#
CONFIG_DRM=m
CONFIG_DRM_MIPI_DSI=y
CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=m
CONFIG_DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER=y
# CONFIG_DRM_LOAD_EDID_FIRMWARE is not set
CONFIG_DRM_TTM=m

Please set CONFIG_DRM_LOAD_EDID_FIRMWARE (m or y?)

More about my findings here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 217#944217

Thank you