.another Thank You from me! I was about to give up on Trisquel because
of not getting correct resolution using my old Radeon card but now it works
great and I very much enjoy Trisquel. :-)
Oh man! many thanks! I was runed to the same problem when I tried Trisquel 7.
Back to 6 and migrated then to Mint, but with minor performance :(
And now I found this thread (tears of happiness)...
Thanks again. Love you Trisquel comunnity.
I also had this problem two months ago when installing Trisquel 8 in my Acer
laptop with an old Radeon card (AMD/ATI Park Mobility Radeon HD 5470)
However -after different trials- I was able to solve the problem as follows:
- After installing Trisquel 8 the Vesa driver was only giving a
Thank you jxself and Magic Banana.
So actually nothing can be done, if I understand correctly. I guess nobody
gonna develop an open source driver for such an old card. That's a shame.
So that's it with radeon driver.
But maybe you guys can help me somehow force the VESA driver to my native
"I don't understand how only radeon driver can cause such problems"
Because, on newer kernels, the radeon module is known to fall over and die
when the proprietary junk isn't present. You can thank the Linux kernel
developers for that.
And not necessarily for any good reason. In some cases
Thank you Magic Banana for suggestion. I don't think that using an old kernel
is a very wise idea, although I've tried it. However as you would expect it
gave me bunch of errors and did not mount the /home directory properly. The
boot process dropped me into a terminal (recovery mode). I
Hello everybody.
First of all - congratulations on such awesome OS! I have never used anything
more stable and reliable than trisquel. I am just overexcited about
everything in it. Have been following GNU philosophy for years...
Although, I suppose, nobody can get running a free (libre)
