Re: [Trisquel-users] amd vga without firmware

2019-10-04 Thread les . reading
No, you are out of luck with AMD GPU's. They require the firmware blob present in the kernel, which isn't free and so removed from the kernel Trisquel uses. Without it you'll get an error message. Shame, since the drivers are actually free. PureOS has exactly the same issue.

Re: [Trisquel-users] amd vga without firmware

2019-09-24 Thread power9
What about disgrete vga? Once upon a time gpu that had firmware inside his rom, without the need to install on your os, so i can run trisquel or any distro without installing non free software. Afaik from nvidia everything works untill kepler, but what about amd? what is the lastest vga famil

Re: [Trisquel-users] amd vga without firmware

2019-09-23 Thread calmstorm
Unless the lenovo G505s someday is librebooted, probably there isn't much that can be done regarding AMD. Although that device has weak hinges, it supposedly is being looked into being run without any psp modules. and supposedly the only obstacle to librebooting it is supposedly the atom bi

[Trisquel-users] amd vga without firmware

2019-09-23 Thread power9
Do anyone know what's the latest amd gpu family can run without firmware blobs? I found nothing searching the web