The various commands using inxi that I have tried (with or without sudo) result in: command not found.Īnother variant suggested sudo lshw -C video yielded: RV710/730 HDMI Audio Ġ3:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)Ġ4:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2213A/B/XIO2221 PCI Express to PCI Bridge (rev 01) RV730/M96-XT Ġ2:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. It's a bit low res, but I could live with that if there are no simple alternatives.Ĭlick to expand.the first command yielded this:Ġ2:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. So the question is how do I get an installation to work and come up with at least the usable screen I'm working on now. I also begin to understand that nomodeset isn't a good long term solution anyway.
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I presume I have a graphics incompatibility issue with the stock Linux graphics driver because any time I attempt the install I end up with a 4 panel screen, each with a copy of the same output, but completely illegible. But I'm guessing that may apply only to the extant Live USB session and not the eventual install to the computer. I've read that there are ways to get the installation to the computer to work using nomodeset and figured out where to put that in the grub file.
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I have attempted to install 5 different distros mainly using iso file burned to USB with balena Etcher. I had to use simple graphics to get it to work. I'm writing this from an Ubuntu example running from a USB. I might play with some other applications and learn enough Linux to keep things working, but my goal is not a deep dive into Linux.
My goal at the moment is to get a Linux installation onto an iMac that has aged out of the OSX world so that I might run a copy of the DaVinci video editor to take advantage of this large screen. I decided I couldn't justify owning an expensive, special purpose computer that I could not really make use of so, when a university professor came along wanting to buy an example of the 13 copies we made, I sold it.
My only real experience came from the limited time I owned a copy of the Novena Heirloom computers I designed with Bunnie Huang. I'm new here and relatively new to Linux.
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