T14 won't book Trisquel live image
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Hello, people.
Recently I bought a 2nd hand Thinkpad T14 with a Ryzen processor and tried to install Trisquel, but it won't even boot, giving me a black screen right after the GRUB menu.
I've tried Trisquel 11 and 12, with the same results: black screen after the GRUB menu. Even tried changing the kernel parameters (acpi=off, nomodeset, etc), but again, no success.
After that I installed Arch without any problems, but I noticed that the graphics stack of the Ryzen laptop is very different from the usual Intel graphics stack. So maybe that's the problem. Or maybe the new Ryzen processor demands some form of proprietary firmware to be loaded at runtime, I don't know.
Does anyone have a suggestion? I'm thinking about installing Debian MATE and then installing the Trisquel MATE themes, is that possible?
Best regards.
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After that I installed Arch without any problems. [...] Or maybe the new Ryzen processor demands some form of proprietary firmware to be loaded at runtime
You could check which of the installed packages is listed in the blacklist of Parabola. Perhaps it could still work without them, so you could try the migration from Arch or just installing Parabola with the packages that are not blacklisted and see if it is booting ok. Parabola is trying to be as close as possible to Arch, only with non-free software removed. If you need any assistance, the IRC channel can be useful (you need to remain connected a long time, or use something like quassel to be permanently there).
Which processor does your computer have exactly? I have a T14s but it has an Intel i7-1185G7 processor and it works fine with Trisquel (only had to do some tweaking for sound).
EDIT: Just to add that I am also a happy Parabola user.
Greetings. Trisquel and Parabola user here.
The main issue related to Trisquel 11 and 12, alongside to Parabola is the fact that the recent Ryzen APU from AMD are too new to apply some helpful tweaks from part of AMDGPU without the propietary RadeonSI firmware suite.
Only the Intel iGPU's have great support of GPU from part of GNU/FSF-endorsed distros like Trisquel and Parabola (in the case of the Iris HD and beyond alongside the dedicated ARC graphics cards), there should not be any issue except the access to the QuickSync Video, which contains some propietary firmware components that are often pulled from the source code for linux-libre.
In the case of AMDGPU, I only have to say that since the version 6.11 and beyond, the AMDGPU driver can run without any firmware with Polaris in a framebuffer mode without capability of run in native mode in case of the dedicated Radeon cards like my dedicated Radeon RX 550 card. It seems that since Vega series and beyond, the framebuffer mode of AMDGPU without RadeonSI's propietary firmware suite doesn't work on actually modern Ryzen APU's.
Thank you, gentlemen.
I was afraid I wouldn't be able to run Trisquel on this machine, the AMD iGPU is really weird, and even using Arch with a very recent kernel I had to change a lot of stuff for it to work correctly. For example xbacklight does not work with AMD to change screen brightness.
I will try Parabola and check if it will run without proprietary firmware, though.
The machine is really fast. It is a shame it needs proprietary stuff.
Best regards