Hello everybody.
First of all - congratulations on such awesome OS! I have never used anything
more stable and reliable than trisquel. I am just overexcited about
everything in it. Have been following GNU philosophy for years...
Although, I suppose, nobody can get running a free (libre) linux distribution
and run into no problems.
I am using an old laptop with radeon ATI graphics. I know...I shouldn't. But
my radeon is very old. It can run on open source / free drivers, and
therefore had no problems on Trisquel 6. I know also that there was a change
in kernel, moving from Trisquel 6 to 7 and a lot of users had the same
problem like mine - the VESA driver. I know, newer radeon cards use
proprietary firmware. The older ones doesn't. But I'll try to stay on topic
and explain what I want to do.
First problem I got was the wrong monitor resolution. I easily fixed that
following these forum topics:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-70-flash-disk-and-amd-raedonlimited-resolution
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/cannot-get-widescreen-resolution-and-use-multiple-monitors-trisquel-7-i-could-trisquel-6
Everything is running smooth ant stable now, uncomparable to other non free
linux distributions. Trisquel is about 2 times faster than ubuntu in this
machine. And the system runs much cooler, especially on idle. It just gives
that nice feeling of being in control, knowing that your machine does not run
some peculiar "background collecting data" thing one me anymore....
My problem is, that after unblacklisting the radeon driver (and therefore
getting correct monitor resolution) my suspend/resume had broken. It was
working with VESA. I cannot wake up my laptop - the display, mouse and
keyboard are frozen. And I really do need this function. All other things in
this OS is just incredible and I do not want to just move back to nonfree
ubuntu.
What could I do? Where do I start troubleshoot?
My laptop is acer ferrari 1000 (video: ATI radeon xpress 1150), everything
as in factory, except I changed the WiFi chip to the libre compatible
Atheros. Trisquel 8 is up to date.
Thank you guys for any insight!!I am prepared to do anything I can to let
this machine run trisquel... IT's Almost There!
