If it is it certainly happened at a very unfortunate time. Like probably most
here, I remember reading stories about samsung uefi laptops getting bricked
by linux but I'm assuming that simply switching from uefi to bios mode and
net-installing wouldn't cause a freeze like I've described?
Thanks for the replies everybody. I had suspected that the updated base of
Trisquel 7 would solve this problem, but if and when I get a working computer
I will definitely try your suggestion, Lembas, so thanks for that.
I say if and when because this morning I have been arranging to return
Hi! I'm trying to get hardware acceleration working so I can run gnome shell.
The computer in question has a haswell i3-4130 processor with the HD4400
graphics chip. I tried installing jxself's latest linux-libre kernel but that
didn't seem to work. Is there anything else I can try or am I
Further to my second question...the error message given when I try to boot
from the netinstall disc is Machine check error. I expect it's related a
some bios setting, but quite which one I don't know.
This is wonderful! Many thanks indeed :)
That's interesting. My computer has the athlon 64 4600+ processor but with a
nvidia graphics card and I get the exact same problem with only the gnome
edition of trisquel - I cannot get past the log-in screen on the live cd and
if I install it then the screen goes black for a split second
