PROBLEM:
A. When I boot from USB stick, the siduction-xfce RC iso would provide default, safe mode etc.
Using default setting, laptop will boot into a garbage screen.
B. When I choose to boot from Safe mode, it boots up laptop, with low resolution.
Upon installation, reboot will bring up a garbage screen.
ctrl/alt/f2 or alt/f2 did not get to terminal.
The issue is related to graphic , Radeon HD6470M
So I got stuck, and decided to try xchat.
Thanks to devil , agaida and others, who helped me out to get it working.
Here I shall just record the key steps to get this RC installed onto the laptop.
This should help some other users? and would certainly help me in future when I need to refer to the steps..
I might have some typo error.. when I have time again I shall do these steps again to confirm it works,
If anyone spot some mistake kindly let me know so that I could amend it.
1. Boot from USB stick,
By choosing safemode, I would get the low resolution graphic working.
Run live mode.
2. Activate wireless/wired
Use ceni, to get internet.
3. Change the repos to add debian contrib and non-free
open root terminal, Open editor, such as mcedit , nano, mousepad, etc
edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
at the end of first line, type in contrib non-free
on second line, remove the # so as to activate the source repos, this is needed during compilation of kernel?(i guess)
after that, save the changes
get out of editor and back to terminal
4. apt-get update
5. apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree
6. apt-get install fglrx-driver
7.check that build-essential is installed, in this case the iso had it installed.
I use apt-cache policy build-essential to check.
8. check that linux-headers is installed, in this case headers was already installed.
Same as above I use apt-cache policy linux-headers* to check
9. Install build dependencies
apt-get build-dep fglrx-driver
10. do this step
apt-get install $(apt-cache search fglrx- | awk '{print $1}')
11. make a config in xorg
aticonfig --initial --force
12 start the installation, fill up all the details
wait for installer to complete.
13 reboot
and hope for the best..
after reboot, I had the installation works! no more garbage screen.
and the resolution was default to 1366x768
Some additional help,
from agaida,take care of the kernel line, radeon.modeset=0 must be in every kernel line that use fglrx.
to do this
14. modify /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="radeon.modeset=0"
15. run update-grub
16. do a check on /boot/grub/grub.cfg to be sure radeon.modeset=0 is in the kernel line.
One more information:
This laptop runs cool! thanks to the RC iso, perhaps the kernel is doing it correctly...
several other distros tested, temperature may be running around 60-65degc for some, and for others 55-58degC
this one: 47-50degc for hours! with power adaptor plugged in and LCD is bright all the time. Running nice and cool
Thanks again on this RC release and all those who help in xchat..
just one small issue, it cannot shutdown, last line on screen was something like
'shutting down....gdm3' and hang up.
I press alt/f1 and it pops up text asking for login,
I just hit any key and it will shutdown after a few seconds.