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Inviato da stripe il Mar, 10/02/2012 - 15:18

graphic card troubles

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Mar, 10/02/2012 - 15:18
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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

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Mar, 10/02/2012 - 15:26
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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.

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Mar, 10/02/2012 - 17:31
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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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Mer, 10/03/2012 - 06:31
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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).

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Mer, 10/03/2012 - 07:02
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If you want to find free software compatible hardware, you should try h-node.org. Its a free software friendly hardware database. Please, check if you can report your hardware there.

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Mar, 10/02/2012 - 18:44
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And if you do like tinkering, you could try a newer kernel.

http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux-libre/

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Mer, 10/03/2012 - 06:34
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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.

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Mer, 10/03/2012 - 10:11
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@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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