Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution problem on laptop + some questions
Mentioning a theoretical action like installing Debian kernel and a non-free blob, as in post #16 is not a recommendation of doing this as a solution or workaround. Offering to help someone do this would be beyond the scope of this forum.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution problem on laptop + some questions
The Puppy Arcade distribution has a Linux kernel with blobs in it- that should be avoided.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution problem on laptop + some questions
Nvidia cooperates even less than AMD, but paradoxically, their GPUs tend to work a lot better than AMD GPUs because there's a successful reverse-engineering project for Nvidia GPUs, Nouveau. If you have an AMD CPU or some other CPU that doesn't have Intel integrated graphics, an Nvidia card is your best bet (preferably something that isn't one of the oldest, and isn't one of the newest).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution problem on laptop + some questions
Proprietary software is not the solution. It is the problem. word bro!!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution problem on laptop + some questions
Sorry! (I didn't flat out call it a solution but I very much implied it, didn't I?)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution problem on laptop + some questions
Try Trisquel 6. I had resolution problems in Trisquel 7, too, but not in Trisquel 6, so I switched back [1]. It is supported until 2017. [2] [1]: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/cannot-get-widescreen-resolution-and-use-multiple-monitors-trisquel-7-i-could-trisquel-6 [2]: https://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-60-lts-toutatis-has-arrived
Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution problem on laptop + some questions
I miss mednafen emulator in it, is it 100% free? Looks like mednafen itself is free software but not all of the emulators it uses are.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution problem on laptop + some questions
Thank you both for the answers. I have already read some of the GNU.ORG links, that's how I found about Trisquel, blobs in kernel etc... How NVIDIA works with 100% free GNU/Linux? Guess something similiar to AMD. Now I have read about some laptops called MIPS laptops, with free BIOS. Heard Stallman use them? I guess they work with free GNU/Linux well too then. I know the differences between free and open-source, I was just curious if all free software has a open-source, so people can look at its code, and find what shouldn't be there. Some backdoors etc... Who knows, maybe Ubuntu and other distros have a backdoors in their proprietary blops. :/ I know what is SWAP too, but there are many recommendations. And also that SWAP is used even if your RAM isn't full. I have a 2GB RAM now, some people would recommend 2GB, some 3GB, some 4GB, some even 6GB... I think if you have 8GB of RAM, it useless to have 8GB of SWAP... Well, I guess no Trisquel for me now, until I get a proper hardware for it. Then I will definitely come back to Trisquel. Like this distro, simple, classic look, easy to use, and 100% free and open source. Thanks again for all the info. :) (Wondered why people say LINUX, since Linux is only the kernel... Now everybody use that... Maybe they just wanted 1 simple name, and Linux sounds better to them than GNU...) But wouldn't calling it only GNU be more precise than calling it Linux?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution problem on laptop + some questions
I hope it contains a Playstation emulator.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution problem on laptop + some questions
Calling it GNU would be 99% accurate.. As for the binary blobs and backdoors - no one knows what proprietary code hides.. It is always better to not having any on your pc.. Can you trust canonical? can you trust micro$$oft? No and again no!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution problem on laptop + some questions
Unfortunately looks like it doesn't. See the package description in the Synaptic package manager or easier from the command line withapt-cache show mednafen However looks like there is a package pcsxr - Sony PlayStation emulator
Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution problem on laptop + some questions
But wouldn't calling it only GNU be more precise than calling it Linux? Here's the GNU project's stand on the subject https://gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#justgnu
Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution problem on laptop + some questions
Yeah I know, but more precise than calling it Linux, in my opinion. I don't trust anyone. :D And like I said, I'm done forever with Micro$oft, greedy and stupid company that destroys everything, and their crappy backdoored OS. And they wanna money for it??? When there are free, better, non-profit GNU/Linux systems... I don't get why the most crappy stuff is most of the times more popular (like Windows vs GNU/Linux). Advertising I guess... And most of laptops / PCs come with Windows in it. Microsoft should go bankrupt, but people still buy their systems etc... Oh well... Maybe I can trust Xubuntu more than Ubuntu. It's community driven, but still trademark of Canonical. I don't like Ubuntu's Unity anyway.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution problem on laptop + some questions
IT still comes with blobs, so...
Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution problem on laptop + some questions
I don't have a choice, so... Unless I wanna work with low resolution.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution problem on laptop + some questions
You can,theoratically, replace Trisquel's kernel with Debian's, then add non-free blobs..(OK, I concede that's not the world's easiest thing to do)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Resolution problem on laptop + some questions
Sadly ATI GPUs are the ones that actually require binary blobs - not in the form of drivers, but firmware (it's along story and I hope someone here with a better understanding of it can explain). Anything that's present in Trisquel's software centre is fully free, and if you find anything there that isn't then it's a mistake that should be reported. Also is 100% free software always open source? How can I know if software is 100% free and open source? I guess it must have GNU license? No, any of what is called free https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html should do. So is it because of the blops removed from the kernel? I thought the blops were here only to offer install of proprietary drivers (like NVIDIA driver), in the non 100% free GNU/Linux distros. Guess I'm wrong though. That's not what blobs are (it doesn't offer anything), maybe this page has a better explanation: So is it because of the blops removed from the kernel? I thought the blops were here only to offer install of proprietary drivers (like NVIDIA driver), in the non 100% free GNU/Linux distros. Guess I'm wrong though.
