Old laptop succes on new kernel

[trinidad]

Old Acer laptop showed up at my shop yesterday with customer who wanted to replace Windows 7 crashed from Windows Meltdown patch before MS pulled it (Celeron 2.2G CPU). I decided to run it through the progression of installing 3.4 first to get the old kernel. Updated 3.4 to the new kernel .110 no problem. Upgraded to 3.6, installed my plymouth progress bar theme, installed Audacity from Lite software, set Firefox theme and security, added Startpage home, checked for mem-leak after leaving connected all night ---- everything good. Not a single issue. Will upload to hardware DB in a few minutes. This particular processor was known to have had pipe problems with underruns in Linux  depending on the OEM memory addressing. No more. Good work Ubu.

TC

[newtusmaximus]

Was that 32 bit LL 3.6?

[trinidad]

System:
Kernel: 4.4.0-110-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial
Machine:
System: ACER (portable) product: Aspire 5336 v: V1.04
Mobo: ACER model: JE51_MV v: V1.04 Bios: ACER v: V1.04 date: 09/23/2010
CPU(s):
Single core Intel Celeron 900 (-UP-) speed: 2194 MHz (max)
Graphics:
Card: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics Controller
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: [email protected]
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 17.2.4
Audio:
Card Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-110-generic
Network:
Card-1: Broadcom BCM43225 802.11b/g/n driver: bcma-pci-bridge
Card-2: Broadcom NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3
Drives:
HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (3.1% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: Hitachi_HTS54502 size: 250.1GB
Optical: /dev/sr0 model: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GT32N dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw
Features: speed: 24x multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram

I do have an Intel HP 32bit box running 4.4.0-110 with the meltdown mitigation running okay so far after update.

TC

[The Repairman]

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