[Gambas-user] hardware requirments?

[Gianluigi]

A possible solution that allows installing 3.10 from PPA is Xubuntu 16.04

Regards
Gianluigi

2017-12-08 19:27 GMT+01:00 PICCORO McKAY Lenz <mckaygerhard at gmail.com>:

> the problem its the winbuntu derived distro mint..
>
> i installed gambas in the very older eeepc asus with 2G disk ssd internal,
> 512Mb ram and geode CPU 800MHz perfectly..
>
> but recent stupid linuxes (including recent kernel) now removed a lot of
> support for older hardware lest take a example to xorg:
>
> since 7.3 xorg does not support intel i810 complety, lie to said that its
> supported due that chip does not offer 32bit dept only 16bit "true color"
> so newer xorg does not complety provide all the chip capabilities
> so if you have intel 810 based chip and wants DIR and opengl, xorg must be
> fewer rather thant 7.2  so an older linux must be used..
>
> in my case i backporte gambas for older linuxes.. like debian lenny and
> squeeze perfectly.. of course, thanks to benoit that still does not "up"
> the requerimients...
>
> Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO)
> http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com
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> 2017-12-08 13:47 GMT-04:00 Tobias Boege <taboege at gmail.com>:
>
>> On Fri, 08 Dec 2017, mikeB wrote:
>> > here's what my friend replied.....
>> > Installing Mint 18.3 on Old & New PC's works OK.
>> > Plenty of disks space (250GB SATA).
>> > Plenty of memory (8GB).
>> > Then add the ppa:gambas-team repo source.
>> > Then apt-get update & then install gambas3.
>> > Works ok on new PC's, but fails install on old PC's.
>> > *Major difference is old CPU & Mobo.*
>> > Works /w AMD APU's & FX CPU's.
>> > Fails on Old PC's /w AMD Athlon CPU's.
>> > Interesting that installing Gambas 3.8.4 on the Old PC's works.
>> > Only Gambas 3.10 fails to install on the Old PC's.
>> >
>>
>> A possibly relevant difference between those systems is that AMD Athlons
>> are 32 bit, unless I'm mistaken. Maybe some dependencies are outdated for
>> that architecture.
>>
>> Anyway it would be time to provide some real error messages. If it's the
>> bitness or too high version requirements for some dependencies that came
>> since 3.8.4, the package manager should be able to say that.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tobi
>>
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