Debian Jessie fails to boot on Toshiba Satellite C55A

Ihatewindows522 · 05-13-2015, 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Firefox54

Here are the processor and graphics specs
AMD Dual-Core E1-1200 Accelerated Processor with AMD Radeon
HD 7310 Graphics
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1.4 GHz, 1MB Cache
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AMD A68M Chipset
Does this mean I have hybrid graphics?

I have tried Mint and Debian. I was thinking of trying Fedora next because I read that it was all someone could get to work on their Toshiba Satellite. I would rather have a different Linux because I want the ability to use non-free packages. Does anyone have other suggestions or should I try Fedora?

In Fedora, there's a whole repository devoted to non free packages. (It's a darn good one too!) You might want to give CentOS 6 a go if you're having trouble with GNOME 3.

Also saying that you tried Debian Jessie after Mint as another OS doesn't make sense...Mint and Ubuntu are Debian Jessie with a few extra goodies installed. That's it. You can even find Debian logos still in the LiveDVDs. If you want to try another independent distro, I would recommend one of the following:
o Fedora/CentOS
o Arch/Manjaro (Manjaro might just get it right as it comes with proprietary drivers)
o Slackware/Slax
o Mageia (formerly Mandriva, which was formerly Mandrake)

Firefox54 · 05-14-2015, 12:14 AM

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Can you boot into single user mode without Xorg.

Is there a way I can do this by editing the grub menu? None of the default entries in grub work.

Firefox54 · 05-14-2015, 09:55 PM

I think I am making progress. If I add the grub parameters xforcevesa nomodeset noapic acpi=off then I can boot into recovery mode under either root or my normal username. If I use the same parameters in non-recovery mode then it gets to the lines
Stopping Light Display Manager...
[OK] Stopped Light Display Manager.
Starting Light Display Manager...
[OK] Started Light Display Manager.
[OK] Started LSB: Apache2 Web Server
Stopping Light Display Manager...
[OK] Stopped Light Display Manager.
Starting Light Display Manager...
{OK] Reached target Multi-User System.
Starting Update UTMP about System Runlevel changes...
Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel changes.

Thank you everyone for the help so far. Could someone give me some insight as to where to go from here?

Edit: I forgot to add that I need to use kernel version 4 in or der for the above parameters to work

mralk3 · 05-31-2015, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by EDDY1

I have always had to install firmware-linux-nonfree for all of my ati or amd graphics, to get a useable screen to install fglrx.

Exactly. Boot with the nomodeset kernel option from grub, install the firmware, then browse for the ati graphics driver on the amd site and install.

I would NOT suggest installing a kernel from another branch, ie testing, unstable or experimental. Not good to mix a stable system with experimental packages.

If you want a newer kernel, build a debian package from a newer kernel source off of kernel.org.

EDDY1 · 05-31-2015, 11:09 PM

I just recently installed jessie on my dell inspirion m3040 laptop, after installation dmesg requested the firmware-linux-nonfree.
Here's the ouput from glxgears