Recent content by andrewz1986

I updated title of this thread and updated opening post with steps I had to undergo to make it work. Feel free to make anything you want with this thread. I hope it helps as much people as possible. :-) Thanks again to everybody who contributed!

Success! I went to Synaptics package manager. Since mesa-vdpau-drivers were already installed, I tried to install libvdpau-va-gl1, which were not. It lacked "supported by the distribution" mark, but I ignored it. Then I went back to official NVIDIA drivers and threw Nouveau away. Voi lá, I can...

I finally made hardware acceleration when playing video in web browser work, although only in Chromium Dev – I used the guide linked in OP again and this time it did not end with a problem. I also had to go back to official NVIDIA drivers instead of Nouveau. CPU load with the same 480p video is...

I tried disabling hardware acceleration within the browsers and nothing changed regarding CPU overload during streaming online video. That leads me to conclusion that the tiny improvement I was talking about was just a placebo (or improvement over situation when all video drivers were removed)...

Ok, so I downloaded linux-lite-4.6-64bit.iso and used Rufus Windows app to create a bootable USB flash drive. There were no issues while installing it. The system itself works pretty well, no freezes at all, but booting up took too long, so I disabled VirtualBox using this guide first. It helped...

I installed BunsenLabs, not Debian, since (unlike dozens of distros I tried before) everything worked out of the box with my old notebook I use aside my desktop and I wanted to have the same GUI on both devices. Having everything working out of the box was important for me since I have no deeper...

Thanks for your suggestion, JulienCC! Before I undergo a research about Nouveau drivers, I thought I would change Mint Linux for some more lightweight distribution, as Nik-Ken-Bah suggested. Which one should I use to get usable GUI, modern browser and Nouveau drivers support? Here I found a list...

Thanks for your reply. In case Linux work similarly to Windows in terms of memory usage, it fills RAM depending on the capacity available. That means the more RAM capacity you have, the more the system takes while running. As I said in OP, I'm not tied to one distribution. My priority is...

MODERATOR'S NOTE: I am posting this here as a "Stickie" because it is a good example of how older - legacy - hardware can get a new lease of life under Linux, and as a bonus, the OP (Original Poster) has solved his own problem :). I am taking no further input on it, but if you feel you have a...