On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 05:48:04PM +0200, Moon Jones wrote: > Some time ago I have bought this Acer Aspire 7250. Seems to be a > piece of junk. Preinstalled windows works well as long as you don't > mess with its preinstalled crap. Otherwise it loses functionality. > > I have run Fedora Core with no issues. Out of the box one might say. > But I don't like the testing type of distro as it generates a lot of > updates and I have a bad Internet connection. > > I have moved to Debian 6. Works nice. But the screen was 1024x768 > instead of 1600x900. The resolution issue was solvable only after > installing some old flavour of the closed Radeon drivers and it kept > showing some text in the lower right corner. Unknown hardware or > something like that. That and Gnome was stuck at 2.x. So I have > decided to give up Debian waiting for Debian 7 and Gnome 3. > > Windows is only a failsafe solution. And Debian 7 is out. I got the > XFCE CD1, boot off it, did the configuration without network, > leaving that for later. Everything went well with the advanced > features, both text and graphical. > > Than I boot into the new system. All seems well. Till the moment the > interface should start. First there was a dark screen. That lightens > up at the margins. Than the screen changes with time into a dull > gray. That's it! I have tried to change the console at the start. > Now I get a nice succession: the basic colors (green, yellow, blue, > red) than some wide grayscale bands left–right from light to dark, > than some thin bands top to bottom, than the colors again. > > It's so damn frustrating to be so close and not having a functional > system. As usual, the reviews praise the ease of use. I don't even > get a crappy 1024x768 screen from where I can try installing some > driver. The network support of the install is still lost in 1995: > ethernet of wifi, but no browser for passing the few I accept of a > free Wifi connection. > > The Acer Aspire 7250 I have uses AMD Radeon 6310 chipset. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/518bc534.1060...@pencil.allmail.net
You may need firmware-linux-nonfree and libdrm-radeon1 Expert install and minimal text-only install should help debug this :) Hope this helps, AndyC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130509204151.ga7...@galactic.demon.co.uk
