graphic card troubles
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Hi all
Love the distro and its philosophy on free software, its just the on-board nvidia graphics on my motherboards that dont
I would prefer to use open source drivers on my machines but they dont seem to work well enough to use.
does anybody have any ideas?, or should I just install the propriety driver? (I don't want to, but it seems that's the only option to get it working correctly)
thanks for a truly free operating system and keep up the good work,
stripe
If I were you I would just buy hardware what works with Free Software. I have done it myself and it is a blast. No messing with stuff because things just work out of the box.
Novadays is good times because Intel graphics are very well supported by Free Software.
Thanks moilami for a great answer
It will be a while till I can upgrade my machines (as due to sods law I have just upgraded my 2 main machines (both amd chip / nvidia graphics))
does anyone know of a list of trisquel compatible hardware? (particularly graphics cards)
because if I could find separate graphics cards that would work with trisquel I could use them as a workaround until I can carry out an upgrade on my hardware
thanks again for the help
edited to add: just tried an older asrock motherboard, with on-board nvidia graphics and trisquel works great
could one of the admins please mark this thread as solved (I cant seem to do it)
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At a minimum stick to the GEFORCE 8/9 series if you are going to get a free software friendly card. These cards work best with the nouveau driver. This is the free software driver. Of these the best supported is the 9500GT. It's what we sell: http://libre.thinkpenguin.com (25% of the profits go to the Trisquel project).
And if you do like tinkering, you could try a newer kernel.
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This works well if you want to upgrade the linux-libre kernel on debian/ubuntu derived distributions:
http://jxself.org/linux-libre/
It's a repository which has the linux-libre kernel packaged for debian/ubuntu and offers regular updates.
@Stripe: Just out of curiosity...what GPU does your mainboard have ?
My daughter has one of my old boxes which sports a GeForce 4400 Ti, runs Trisquel 5.5 x86 and provides a reasonable performance. Nothing great but as to expect with an old GPU and a free driver which still needs to go a long way in terms of features and optimisation.
HTH,
Holger
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