Re: [gNewSense-users] gnewsense desktop

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Hi there ;-)

Have you tried removing that AMD gpu and trying to boot wityhout it
that is ""assuming you may have an Intel motherboard with integrated gpu with 
your motherboard?
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/i-am-looking-build-my-first-computer
https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/index.html#supported_list

Best Regards
xd


On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 19:46:56 -0700
alsnews <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello Fellow gnewers,
>                        I am a gnewbie to any linux systems. All I have 
> used is windows (BOO!). I agree. I hate all the spyware, and have been 
> reading FSF's site, along with some Richard Stallman and Libre Planet 
> videos. So, I decided to try out gnewsense, which made gsense to me. 
> Anyway, I have an old (5 or 6 yrs) computer running widows 8.1 with an 
> AMD 5700 video card,
> with 1TB of memory. My wife has more computer knowledge than I. So I got 
> her to download gnewsense off of the FSF site. We wanted it installed on 
> the hard drive, so we would have
> a dual boot system. She allotted (partitioned) 50% of the hard drive for 
> gnewsense. Gnewsense downloaded alright, but it wouldn't load the gnome 
> desktop, which I really needed to figure out how everthing worked. There 
> was an error message that said gnome desktop didn't load because of a 
> hardware or graphics problems. My wife then went to AMD's site to get 
> the latest driver for or Redeon video card. It seemed to add a few more 
> items to our menus list, but we still couldn't load the gnome desktop 
> after rebooting. Is it because the AMD driver perhaps came with some 
> proprietary software? If so, do any of you know a fix for this? Or a 
> work around? I would appreciate any help. If there is no fix, I was 
> thinking of trying out Trisquel. Would it make any difference? I know I 
> could get a distro like Ubuntu or Debian, and it would probably would 
> work fine. But I would prefer to get a GNU/Linux distro. One that's not 
> part proprietary software.
> Thanks for Your Time,
> Have a gGood Day.
> 
> 
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