Huge problem with AMD A-Series APU

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InterMegaBorg
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se unió: 10/06/2014

First of all I have noticed that budget Intel CPU's work very good with trisquel and gnu/linux distros in general but I have this huge problem with a APU, namely the AMD A8 6600K black edition. This may be a black edition APU but it is still performing slightly weird because trisquel is displayed on half of the screen size. I had this problem with the old version of Trisquel but it keeps performing pretty bad even with the new one. BTW I love the new trisquel and it performs tons better than other mainstream distros, it is very user friendly but there seems to be a lot of room for work on mid range AMD APUs. So basically the problem is that I sometimes have to restart my pc 2 times just so that it can come back to normal and display the os on the entire screen instead of displaying on half a screen. I have used Gparted for proper RAM allocation and yes it has enough ram as I have 16 GB of DDR3 ram and the sistem is completely new.... can someone work on the drivers of this APU? this apu was selling for literally peanuts as it is a budget solution so I really hope that someone would work on this project in the near future.

marioxcc
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se unió: 08/13/2014

Hi.

Thanks for using a fully free operating system. Please note that gparted has nothing to do with RAM allocation (other than the fact it uses RAM while it's running, like almost any other program[1]), it's used to partition and format a block device like a hard disk or a solid state drive.

I can't provide much insight into this problem. Do “lspci -k” to see which kernel driver is in use for the integrated video controller. Search the web for it, maybe your problem is a known bug. Maybe it's a configuration problem of X11. Did you search the web already for things like “AMD APU half screen displayed only”?.

Good luck.

[1]: Some software for microcontrollers use no RAM at all, but instead stores all the run-time data in the processor registers. Even for embedded devices this practice is uncommon.