Older Computer and 8.04

[NoOp]

On 05/08/2010 02:51 PM, Karl Larsen wrote:
> 
>      I have a DVD/CD device, USB port devices and a older replacement of 
> the floppy disk space with a multi memory stick reader. These are not 
> working reliably on 10.04 and I have been testing to see why.
> 
>      When I gave up and tried version 8.04 I was surprised that all 
> these devices are working fine on this version. Went back to 10.04 and 
> the same problems. It looks as if I might need a newer hardware for 10.04?

I doubt it. Unless it's as old as you :-)

I've got it running just fine on this old clunker:
 *-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 4
          bus info: cpu at 0
          version: 15.2.4
          slot: J2E1
          size: 1600MHz
          capacity: 1700MHz
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 100MHz