Hi everyone, I am a newbie to linux and i was figuring it out how can we install linux without having the gui. I tried searching on net but i didnt got anything. Can anyone help me out how can we install linux without gui and also if linux is installed with gui then how can we remove it.
Regards Anshul Bhatnagar On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:55 AM, L. Guruprasad <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Mohan Sundaram <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Whenever I tried to install Ubuntu / Debian or even booting live CD, > it say > >>> "low graphics mode" and always ends up with the console. I tried > googling a > >>> lot and find that the problem is with Radeon graphics drivers and > couldn't > >>> find any optimal solution. > >> > >> Try installing the ATI binary blobs. > > > > I would recommend installation from an alternate ISO/image of Ubuntu. > > Installs much faster than the GUI install. Set the default to console > > login. Install the ATI binaries and invoke X. If it falls back to the > > console, see the error in the logs. This will give you pointers. > > > > I've a AMD desktop with a Radeon card with HDMI and VGA interface at > > home. I was able to get display on the HDMI display while installing > > Ubuntu though to a max of 1440x900 resolution. Post installation, I > > installed the Radeon 5450 (my card) drivers from the Dell site and > > then was able to get full HD output. > > If the laptop has a dual hybrid-GPU setup, things might be a bit more > complicated to setup. I was trying to follow all the guides to setup > the dual hybrid GPU on my wife's laptop using Debian/Ubuntu and none > of them worked. Then I figured out that there are multiple ways that > the dual hybrid GPU might be configured on the laptop. For instance in > my case, it was always the intel GPU that was exposed to the OS and > all the intensive graphics work, the intel GPU offloaded it to the AMD > discrete GPU and then rendered the result. So installing a fairly > recent version of kernel (Debian Jessie) and enabling just the intel > GPU first before installing the radeon driver solved the problem for > me. So you might have to do some research before trying the various > howto guides. If you don't understand any of the terms I have used, > please feel free to search for them and read up. > > Thanks & Regards, > Guruprasad > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
