Hello Trisquel Forum:
Your patience please, I'm making the commitment to ditch all my Microsoft
Windows crap. I've had quite enough of that outfit. My problem is I know
pretty much nothing about unix and my old, calcified brain is not very
absorbent anymore. If there's a newbie forum more suitable for this inquiry,
just direct me and I'll re-post there.
So my situation is that I'm a basic user - I only need something for email &
web-browsing. I'm very tired of throwing away money on toxic hardware so am
trying to get Trisquel installed on old machines I have hanging about.
Currently I'm working on a Dell 610. Got around the wifi issue by purchasing
a USB wifi card.
Next problem is the thing is locking up when it goes into suspend mode.
I'm reading the instructions at
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/troubleshooting-suspendhibernate
and because I don't know anything, I can't get through the first set of
instructions.
I have added the "nomodeset" to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= line
I ran the update-grub command and was informed by xterm "You must run this as
root"
So I typed sudo update-grub. xterm prompted me for my credentials and then
returned
"nomodeset: not found"
I have tried putting a comma after the "quiet splash" entry on the
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line, but it makes no difference. I get the
"nomodeset: not found" response.
Can anyone get me past this one?
