> do seek a wholly free system, but if at the end of the day I cannot get my
PC to work with Trisquel, and I cannot buy another, what are the drawbacks of
looking for the original drivers, and is that even an option while using
Trisquel? What I want and what I have are two different things. What would
happen if I got the non-free driver? Would that solve my overheating issue
and bring me from 20% to 100%?
Well, you seem to mistake a driver with the firmware. Those are different
things. See, there is a libre driver for the ATI gpus and you have it already
installed on your Triskell installation. What you miss is the non-free
firmware in the kernel.
I gave you the solution but I can also give you a non solution becuase it
would not solve anything, at least in my view, being that proprietary
software is not solution but **the** problem.
Anyway, if you really want to go that way (and that is up to you - nobody
here will shoot you for doing so X_X) what you may do is install Debian,
temporarily add the non-free repo and install the package
firmware-linux-nonfree and then remove the non-free repo from sources.list in
/etc/apt.
That way you would have a system that contains **only** the proprietary
firmware for your GPU and everything else would be libre (Debian is as libre
as Trisquel by default - that is if you don't manually add the nonfree and
the contrib repos and install software from those).
Mind that I don't **recommend** you to do this, I just point out that you
**can do it if you decide to do it**.
P.S: don't mind the trolls. Ignore them. I'm not very good at ignoring
douchebags but I hope you are better at it than myself.
