i am bringing this thing back from the dead

ibm? deadass?

deadass

I knew it was a thinkpad
what model though?

R51

IBM

HOLY GEEZER

FR

WHAT IN MY 2ND GRADE SCHOOL CHROMEBOOKIS THAT

ibm r51 thinkpad from like 2004

yep, sounds about right.. my 2nd grade school computer's twin is being revived.. BUT SLAYYYYYYYYYY

:DD

I didn't even know Thinkpads with an R suffix were a thing
Antix sure is a nicety for them though, I have a T400 with it and it's doing okay

very cool
saved this thing from getting scrapped by my school

quick tip: zram (basically a compressed RAM cache so you can store more on memory),
it's not magic but it helped a lot on my machine.

or zswap

im trying to figure out how to get xorg working well since apparently current versions aren't great on those old chipsets

bc like it's just the core version and i wanna build up the DE components myself.

Are you using the xf86 or i810 video driver (or have both installed)?

good question, I'll have to check

oh, yeah, I haven't actually installed any xorg stuff yet.

wait I'm slow, that's after the server is on

idk, if xorg doesn't work maybe try xvesa or xfbdev

ight
yeah, all i've really done is install the os and get firmware and stuff. also switched it to the testing version. wifi was a bit annoying to set up but it's working now

i have a swap partition but thats it

then zswap should be a better fit for you (it directly complements swap by compressing standard memory BEFORE writing it to the abhorrently slow swap)

i'll look into that
i'm basically new to linux so this whole project is a trial by fire :)