[Trisquel-users] Re : Help me get rid of the last proprietary component of my OS, the b43 driver
See this (six month old) message by Chris (CEO of ThinkPenguin): The problem with HP is they are on the 'bad list' of companies in that they use digital restrictions to prevent the user from replacing it with another card. This is done because there is a lucrative market for after-warranty part sales. By restricting the cards which work in this slot it forces customers back to HP for a replacement part. There have been claims by HP/and or other companies that this is done to comply with FCC rules. However the free software community made a huge fuss about it (amongst others) and the FCC responded with a public statement saying this was false. There are no such regulations that would prevent the company from letting users install third party cards. After this they made further claims about it not being the FCC but other countries. The problem with this is that the original claims were very specific and other companies would be in the same situation. However the list of companies implementing these restrictions is fairly short: HP, Dell, *Toshiba*, IBM/Lenovo, and Apple (via a proprietary component), and possibly Sony. Asus, Acer, and most others have no such restrictions on there systems. These are not small companies whom only target the US market or any other small market and would also be in the same position as HP were this true. While you can't replace the wifi card in this system you could use an external USB wireless adapter to work around the problem. It may not be ideal although if you already own the system (and have for some time, ie can't return it) then it is you next best option.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 6.0.1 Ready For Testing
Strange! The pointer to System Monitor was in System Settings for me as far as I can remember. I'll have to check again next time I'm back on the laptop. Which version were you using? Steve
Re: [Trisquel-users] Faint sound with Gluglug X60
Pop open a terminal and input alsamixer Make sure the channels aren't muted, especially Master. Marking MM at the bottom of a slider stands for channel muted, press m to toggle. Of course also check the volume is not zero, arrow keys change volume and channels. There is a mixer for pulseaudio which is what you see in the normal graphical user interface. Below that is ALSA which also has a mixer and then comes the actual hardware as far as I know. Glad to hear you like the X60 besides this issue.
[Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6.0 Net Install, Graphics Driver
I have an intel cpu integrated graphics card (hd 3000). After Net Install video games seem to run very poorly, and i guess this is because of a driver problem? When i used Trisquel-Mini or Gnome then games would run smooth (except those that are way to exhaustive). If this is correct, does anyone know how i can install the driver included in Trisquel-Mini or Gnome? Elsewise, can you tell me why games (especially 3d) run so poorly (low framerate and lag). I have only the base of Trisquel installed, selected to install no extra applications during install.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6.0 Net Install, Graphics Driver
try this : sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic mesa-utils libegl1-mesa libglu1-mesa libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental libgl1-mesa-glx
Re: [Trisquel-users] 6.0.1 Ready For Testing
I tried this iso image with one atheros usb wireless card and worked out-of-box :-D I'm sending this message from smartphone with Firefox OS. I really don't like touch screen ;-D
[Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
Hello. I have installed Trisquel 6 mini (with lxde) 64 bit edition on hp 635 laptop. 1.Wi-Fi adapter dont work. How to define exactly wifi adapter model which I use? How to check ability of free driver for this adapter? 2.How permit users to login without passwords entering? 3.Why midori is default browser? Abrowser is fork of Firefox 26, its really cool and modern browser. 4.Current version is based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, isnt it? And next will be based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS? When based on Ubuntu 14.04 Trisquel version appears?
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
5. OS dont see external monitor, connected by hdmi. Maybe this is lxde problem - so, why you dont make mate DE default for trisquel mini - it's small DE too and support normally work with external monitors.
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
Hello and welcome! 1. Open a terminal and input lspci, paste output here. Usually one does not need to install drivers on a GNU/Linux system because they come with the kernel. This might suggest that there is no free driver for your card. You might want to try the latest Linux-libre kernel, e.g. from http://jxself.org/linux-libre/ 2. Edit your /etc/gdm/custom.conf as a super user, e.g. sudo nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf and input [daemon] AutomaticLoginEnable=true AutomaticLogin=YOURUSERNAMEGOESHERE 3. Midori probably is more light weight which is the reason mini exists. You can install abrowser (which is the default for the non-mini version) and use the update-alternatives mechanism to make it the default browser. 4. 5. no idea
Re: [Trisquel-users] King Penguin Laptop
If you want to know something more on that contact with thinkpenguin.com and they'll help you.
Re: [Trisquel-users] King Penguin Laptop
There was a thread about this that is now locked and I don't know why... The forum software does so automatically after a certain time when no new replies have been made.
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
1- Do as mention before by Michal. 2- Mentioned by lembas here and here http://trisquel.info/en/forum/skip-login-window. 3- Midori uses about 8MB less than Abrowser. Remember that Trisquel-mini is pretended to be for lightweighted use. You can install abrowser if you prefer. 4- I would not be so anxious for another version. Trisquel is great as it is. If you wanna change or add someting you are free to do it and ask for help for it too. 5- I haven't tried a second screen.Out of ideas there. Make another thread for that and you'll surely get more help there.
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
Execution lspci or lspci -nn commands (where is difference?) commands give the name of wi-fi adapter: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 (rev 01). For updating kernel, I can: add in /etc/apt/sources.list file line: deb http://jxself.org/repo/freesh/ freesh main install the GPG key wget http://jxself.org/repo/freesh/archive-key.asc sudo apt-key add archive-key.asc sudo aptitude update ? Why in trisquel mini isnt gui for user managment? power settings configuration?
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/compiling-gnu-linux-libre-kernel to compile another kernel if you need to make your wifi work. Notice that Trisquel 6.0.1 is there to install too.
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
Now I try to install linux-libre64 kernel. antiesnob: Midori uses about 8MB less than Abrowser. Remember that Trisquel-mini is pretended to be for lightweighted use. You can install abrowser if you prefer. 8 mb is nothing. Firefox features is very important - normal ads blocking, for example. I would not be so anxious for another version. Trisquel is great as it is. If you wanna change or add someting you are free to do it and ask for help for it too. Also you can compile a newer kernel. I'm a newbie in Linux, but I couldnt understand this thing. If Trisquel based on Ubuntu repos, so, it depends on the ubuntu version Trisquel refers to. As I understand repos defines will be software fresh or not. I notice that on Trisquel kernel has 3.2 version, like Ubuntu 12.04. Trisquel is great as it is. It's too loud declaration. I haven't tried a second screen.Out of ideas there. Make another thread for that and you'll surely get more help there. I worked in Lubuntu 13.10 before. All content of laptop display was displayed as fragment on second large monitor (not like a mirror). But Lubuntu though enables second monitor, Trisquel in fact dont sent signal to it. http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=47t=36489
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
Trisquel 6 is based on Ubuntu 12.04, and Trisquel 7 will be based on Ubuntu 14.04. I don't know when Trisquel 7 will be out; Trisquel 6 didn't come out until I think 6 months after Ubuntu 12.04, but that was before it was switched to LTS-only, so it might be faster this time. What kind of video card do you have, by the way?
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
I use HP 635 laptop. It based on AMD APU A2 (very-vert old and week processor).
[Trisquel-users] Re : A few simple questions
Unless you want to customize the configuration of the kernel (prepare to read a lot of documentation!), or to check by yourself that it is free software (without the need to trust jxself who builds and distributes the deb packages), there is not much point in compiling the kernel by yourself. Here is how to get the latest pre-compiled version of Linux-libre: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/update-linux-libre-kernel However, you could first wait for some feedback on the Wifi chipset you have. There may not be any free firmware for it (even in the latest Linux-libre).
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
I installed new kernel and wi-fi dont work.
Re: [Trisquel-users] UK government switches to OpenDocument
Hey, as long as they save in ODF and PDF in the ISO standardized PDF/A or PDF/X, then I don't care if they use Microsoft Office or not.
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
I was asking about the GPU, not the CPU. But if it's an AMD (Radeon) video card or integrated graphics controller, that might be your problem with multiple monitors. All AMD/ATI video cards have poor support in Linux-libre; they require a proprietary firmware blob to work fully. Perhaps your GPU also needs proprietary software for HDMI support. It could even be part of a digital restriction mechanism (DRM) scheme. If that is the problem, it might be unfixable. You might just have to do without it. You might be able to use the VGA monitor port as an alternative.
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
Then your wifi adapter doesn't work with Linux-libre. The solution is to get a new one that does; the easiest way is to buy one from Think Penguin: http://libre.thinkpenguin.com A USB adapter is the easiest choice; HP is one of the companies that often produce laptops that are defective by design and arbitrarily reject wireless cards, but a USB adapter will work regardless.
[Trisquel-users] Re : UK government switches to OpenDocument
If you were a British citizen, you would probably care that millions of tax money goes to Microsoft (rather than probably far less that would go to local companies that would help the administration migrate to LibreOffice).
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
It is supossed not. Which kernel have you installed?
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
Trisquel has its own repos. 8MB is a lot for machine with 512MB.
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
What about sausy kernel? It is free, isn't it?
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
put the output of this command to be sure: $ lspci | grep --p VGA/3D
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
Modern Intel graphics (haswell) works normally on Linux libre kernel?
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
sausy kernel - what is it?
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
Yep, Intel graphics are the best, in fact; Intel actually provides proper free software support for them.
Re: [Trisquel-users] A few simple questions
Actually, don't get a wireless adaptor yet. My mom's laptop also has AR9285 and it works perfectly in Trisquel. It is also listed as working on h-node.org. Can you post the output of lspci -nnk? Also post the output of dmesg. Attach them in separate files, because the output may be big.
Re: [Trisquel-users] easy-to-follow Postfix guide?
Maybe I need to change settings online, for my domain name. Should I register the hostname mail as a nameserver? I hope that sentence made sense lol. This is a total shot in the dark ... maybe it's something else?
Re: [Trisquel-users] UK government switches to OpenDocument
If they went with LibreOffice, wouldn't the money be going towards a German non-profit? Either way, the money isn't supporting a British company.
