My card is a GeForce GT 720. I never got past the 'unknown kepler chipset'
message with Trisquel 7 though Trisquel 7 was fine for what I was using it
for with it's wider, stubbier display. I tried Trisquel 8 in live mode and
was very surprised to see the 1920 X 1080 screen materialize before my eyes
so I made space on my hard drive and installed it. Awesome!
I do have a problem with Abrowser and cookies. I set the preferences to not
except cookies and I use the exception option to allow on a per site basis.
Currently it seems to accept a cookie from Trisquel.info but maybe the site
can't access it when it needs to? Anyway, I can't login using Trisquel 8 and
Abrowser. Couldn't log in to my email either though I could see my email
provider did put cookies. Their message 'This site requires cookies to
function' also wouldn't go away. I do not have any issues in Trisquel 7.
Software and Updates didn't do anything at all when I clicked on that in
Control Panel. Fortunately I was able to use sudo apt-get install to get most
of my favorite applications and remembered to get Synaptic which is working
fine.
I followed the Manual page at
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/verify-trisquel-download
but think an update for Trisquel 8 might be good. I couldn't find the correct
key on either of the keyservers I found mentioned in documentation.
Anyway, I am excited by the improvement to my graphics and looking forward to
fine tuning that will be done. Thanks to Reuben and all for your efforts.
Trisquel is the only FSF approved OS that worked for me out of the box except
the no longer supported music one.
I attached a text file with my download and verify experience in case anyone
is interested.
1. I downloaded:
trisquel_8.0_amd64.iso 2017-01-10 03:35 1.0G
trisquel_8.0_amd64.iso.asc 2017-01-10 03:35 181
trisquel_8.0_amd64.iso.manifest 2017-01-10 03:35 48K
trisquel_8.0_amd64.iso.md5 2017-01-10 03:35 57
(also tried the torrent but it seemed inactive)
from:
http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/
2. I created a directory to segregate these downloads from anything else and
moved the 4 items I downloaded to that directory.
3. Opened a terminal and moved to the newly created directory.
4. Executed in terminal: md5sum trisquel_8.0_amd64.iso
Output da5a814d0b325e83e162bbafba652d22 trisquel_8.0_amd64.iso
With gedit I opened trisquel_8.0_amd64.iso.md5 and verified output was what was
expected.
Text: da5a814d0b325e83e162bbafba652d22 trisquel_8.0_amd64.iso
(Steps 5 and 6 were in vain as the 'issuer key ID A7E8D94B9D9D4FAD' was not
found at either
hkp server keys.gnupg.net or hkp server pool.sks-keyservers.net, but
steps 7, 8 and 9 as an alternative way to accomplish the same end and were
successfull.)
5. Executed from terminal:
gpg --list-packets trisquel_8.0_amd64.iso
:signature packet: algo 1, keyid A7E8D94B9D9D4FAD
version 4, created 1483833286, md5len 0, sigclass 0x01
digest algo 10, begin of digest af db
hashed subpkt 2 len 4 (sig created 2017-01-07)
subpkt 16 len 8 (issuer key ID A7E8D94B9D9D4FAD)
data: [4096 bits]
6. Unsuccessfully tried to import keys from two different servers (A and B):
A. gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys A7E8D94B9D9D4FAD
gpg: requesting key 9D9D4FAD from hkp server keys.gnupg.net
gpgkeys: key A7E8D94B9D9D4FAD not found on keyserver
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: Total number processed: 0
B. gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys A7E8D94B9D9D4FAD
gpg: requesting key 9D9D4FAD from hkp server pool.sks-keyservers.net
gpgkeys: key A7E8D94B9D9D4FAD not found on keyserver
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: Total number processed: 0
7. Successfully located and saved to same newly created directory:
trisquel-archive-signkey.gpg
at
https://trisquel.info/files/trisquel-archive-signkey.gpg
8. Successfully executed from terminal:
gpg --import trisquel-archive-signkey.gpg
gpg: key 8D8AEBF1: public key "Trisquel GNU/Linux (Trisquel GNU/Linux signing
key) <[email protected]>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1
9. Successfully executed from terminal:
Good signature from "Trisquel GNU/Linux (Trisquel GNU/Linux signing key)
<[email protected]>" [unknown]
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: E6C2 7099 CA21 965B 734A EA31 B4EF B9F3 8D8A EBF1
Accroding to the manual page at
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/verify-trisquel-download:
"Note: You may safely ignore the trust warning, if you would like to trust a
GPG key you should meet in person to exchange keys, for example at LibrePlanet.
Once you know the hash checks and GPG are "good", you can be sure that your
download has not been compromised or corrupted."
