Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 - Graphic Card Radeon HD
Yeah I know, I just thought I should have made a suggestion beyond just warning him not to use non-free crap. Jxself did what I considered to be useful. :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 - Graphic Card Radeon HD
> My apologies floppy, if I upset you, I am just trying to warn you. But yeah, you could try what jxself said as a suggestion. You were correct. Not only is it non-free and not to be trusted, but it is also the wrong firmware for that card.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 - Graphic Card Radeon HD
My apologies floppy, if I upset you, I am just trying to warn you. But yeah, you could try what jxself said as a suggestion.
Re: [Trisquel-users] amd vga without firmware
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 bios. I have no use for something that intense at this time, especially given Risc-V is around the corner and I want a low voltage like cpu. but meh... Coreboot also works on that laptop btw without microcode updates. But don't buy it until Leah or someone fully adds it into the librebootable category. :/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 - Graphic Card Radeon HD
It can't hurt to try a newer kernel just in case: https://jxself.org/linux-libre/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 - Graphic Card Radeon HD
I'm pretty sure the driver you want is the free radeon driver. It explicitly supports your RV710 card according to Debian and according to the reports of Trisquel users on h-node, and Debian reports that the non-free amdgpu driver is for later video cards: https://packages.debian.org/buster/xserver-xorg-video-radeon https://h-node.org/videocards/view/en/904/Advanced-Micro-Devices--AMD--nee-ATI-RV710--Mobility-Radeon-HD-4300-4500-Series- https://h-node.org/videocards/view/en/215/ATI-RV710--Radeon-HD-4550- https://h-node.org/videocards/view/en/11/Advanced-Micro-Devices--AMD--nee-ATI-RV710--Radeon-HD-4350- On Trisquel the package you need should be in the main repository and should be called xserver-xorg-video-ati: https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=xserver-xorg-video-ati https://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-ati/
[Trisquel-users] amd vga without firmware
Do anyone know what's the latest amd gpu family can run without firmware blobs? I found nothing searching the web
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 - Graphic Card Radeon HD
Non-free firmware won't fix your problems and may be security vulnerabilities. Your notebook's graphics card is much older (at least 6~7 years older) than the non-free firmware packages you installed, so I'm afraid they can't address any problem that is relevant to your very old GPU. I remembered that I purchased an AMD HD4xxx series card in 2009 summer and used it to play some video games. The mobile version should have been released at almost the same time. Go to your notebook's BIOS and see whether you can disable the discrete graphics card. If there is such options as "Integrated", then choose it. If you can't disable the discrete graphics, I recommend that you sell your current notebook and purchase one with only Intel's integrated graphics. For example, X200 or T400s is much better (and inexpensive now).
