Hi there ;-)
Have you tried removing that AMD gpu and trying to boot wityhout it that is ""assuming you may have an Intel motherboard with integrated gpu with your motherboard? https://trisquel.info/en/forum/i-am-looking-build-my-first-computer https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/index.html#supported_list Best Regards xd On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 19:46:56 -0700 alsnews <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Fellow gnewers, > I am a gnewbie to any linux systems. All I have > used is windows (BOO!). I agree. I hate all the spyware, and have been > reading FSF's site, along with some Richard Stallman and Libre Planet > videos. So, I decided to try out gnewsense, which made gsense to me. > Anyway, I have an old (5 or 6 yrs) computer running widows 8.1 with an > AMD 5700 video card, > with 1TB of memory. My wife has more computer knowledge than I. So I got > her to download gnewsense off of the FSF site. We wanted it installed on > the hard drive, so we would have > a dual boot system. She allotted (partitioned) 50% of the hard drive for > gnewsense. Gnewsense downloaded alright, but it wouldn't load the gnome > desktop, which I really needed to figure out how everthing worked. There > was an error message that said gnome desktop didn't load because of a > hardware or graphics problems. My wife then went to AMD's site to get > the latest driver for or Redeon video card. It seemed to add a few more > items to our menus list, but we still couldn't load the gnome desktop > after rebooting. Is it because the AMD driver perhaps came with some > proprietary software? If so, do any of you know a fix for this? Or a > work around? I would appreciate any help. If there is no fix, I was > thinking of trying out Trisquel. Would it make any difference? I know I > could get a distro like Ubuntu or Debian, and it would probably would > work fine. But I would prefer to get a GNU/Linux distro. One that's not > part proprietary software. > Thanks for Your Time, > Have a gGood Day. > > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users -- darkstar.io <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
