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I need help! I downloaded yersterday minecraft on this old laptop and it doesn´t work...

When i start the launcher and then open a version (1.8.9) when the game crash.

[Client thread/ERROR]: Couldn't set pixel format
org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoosePixelFormat(Native Method) ~[lwjgl-2.9.4-nightly-20150209.jar:?]
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.choosePixelFormat(WindowsPeerInfo.java:52) ~[lwjgl-2.9.4-nightly-20150209.jar:?]
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWindow(WindowsDisplay.java:247) ~[lwjgl-2.9.4-nightly-20150209.jar:?]
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:306) ~[lwjgl-2.9.4-nightly-20150209.jar:?]
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:848) ~[lwjgl-2.9.4-nightly-20150209.jar:?]
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:757) ~[lwjgl-2.9.4-nightly-20150209.jar:?]
at ave.ap(SourceFile:521) [1.8.9.jar:?]
at ave.am(SourceFile:363) [1.8.9.jar:?]
at ave.a(SourceFile:310) [1.8.9.jar:?]
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:124) [1.8.9.jar:?]
[Client Shutdown Thread/INFO]: Stopping server

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/zsrD2RsDGP/

As you've already mentioned, that computer is old, too old for minecraft.