It shouldn’t be that difficult – should it? A machine less than a year old from a major supplier (HP / Compaq) – where the task is to install a version of Linux that takes advantage of the hardware installed.
As mentioned – it took the 64BIT AMD ALTERNATE CD iso burned to cd to get a text installation completed on this business portable. How do we get the GUI working ????
Here we go
sudo -s enter the password you created during installation
killall gdm
apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
wait for a message re ldconfig defferred processing now taking place
depmod -a
aticonfig –initial
and you’ll see
Uninitialised file found , configuring.
Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Saved back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.original-0
gdm start
A lo the desktop of brown did appear …….