There is absolutely no way to produce a laptop based on x86 technology that
is perfect. Everything is a compromise. Intel and AMD's tech is incorporating
digital restrictions in the CPU. At least for the moment you can avoid
proprietary graphics drivers by going with Intel and still get a
Free software users should avoid AMD. The company has not released the
required specifications/code for a free version. It's released partial code
that wraps around non-free code. It's not a solution. It is a PR stunt.
Intel Graphics are the answer. They come very close to NVidia on the low
Chris, I was chatting with somebody at #fsf, and they said to totally avoid
Intel, due to their integrating DRM into their CPUs and other freedom hostile
things...
He said go with AMD and use Nouveau drivers for an nVidia car. His other
option was not getting a new computer at all and
I agree completely with this position.
Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin
Original Message
From: yee...@gmail.com
Sent: Fri, Jun 29, 2012 04:01 AM
To: trisquel-users@listas.trisquel.info
CC:
Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing 5.5 on Toshiba Notebook
Chris, I
Theres some possible help here on the Mint forum you might find useful.
There's links to some articles on the Ubuntu forums and help section:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49t=99414
I have been forced to use Ubuntu on my Toshiba notebook because Trisquel
won't recognize its graphics card (AMD A8-3500M based).
When I boot from CD it comes up to a command line. Ctrl+Alt+F7 reveals this
text: Starting load fallback graphics devices [fail]
Can anybody point me in a
You could try reading
dmesg|less
for any insights.
And installing the latest version of
www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux-libre/
I find this:
[83.953255] init: udev-fallback-graphics main process (3575) terminated
with status 1
[84.059919] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
...
[90.288738] init: plymouth-stop pre-start process (4131) terminated with
status 1
Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin
On 06/27/2012 11:03 AM,
You could try GNU/Linux Mint instead. Just to let you know, we're not suppose
to discuss non-free software on this forum.
regards,
Rick C. Hodgin
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Date: Wednesday, June 27
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