Current Trisquel Aramo ISO can be used now on a AMD/ATI Radeon laptop
Hello,
I tried to install Trisquel 11 Aramo in a AMD/ATI Radeon laptop some time ago. It was not possible because when I rebooted after installation the loading process didn't work. Some days ago I tried again and this time all went ok.
So the ISO is getting better.
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Very nice. It's an interesting time for AMD GPU's on the libre kernel.
If may I add a comment here
It's not like AMD GPUs are improving or collaborating more in order to improve the support with free software.
This improvement is as a result of trisquel applying some of the findings at: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Hardware/Components/GPUs/radeon
And expanding those a bit more, so we get a bit of an improve just on the usage of such graphics cards for users already using them, 2D and 3D acceleration will still be out of the table.
We need to keep in mind that the lack of a libre firmware for such devices make AMD GPUs not friendly to any free distro or any other distro that could be using linux-libre.
Regards
"If may I add a comment here
It's not like AMD GPUs are improving or collaborating more in order to improve the support with free software.
This improvement is as a result of trisquel applying some of the findings at: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Hardware/Components/GPUs/radeon
And expanding those a bit more, so we get a bit of an improve just on the usage of such graphics cards for users already using them, 2D and 3D acceleration will still be out of the table.
We need to keep in mind that the lack of a libre firmware for such devices make AMD GPUs not friendly to any free distro or any other distro that could be using linux-libre."
Given my personal experience, as well as what I see of others, I conclude that it's mostly older AMD hardware that has been able to work on Trisquel. My point here is that I doubt that people are going out buying new AMD hardware to reward AMD with money but more likely trying to use older systems that they already have. Furthermore I think the list of companies that are working on making their products more libre friendly is very small. I'm all for giving criticism to AMD but let's not leave it just to them, there's enough bad companies out there to spread it around. Overall I'm just happy more hardware works on the libre kernel then before without having to compromise the libre kernel's main purpose.