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Drivers videos

Maes

Mon Mar 24, 2014 8:12:53 pm

Hello,
Already I apologize for my English, I go through a translator.

So now, I'd strongly put Zorin OS on my MSI.
However, not detect me my graphics card is a Radeon 7970M.
I just have a black screen with a window that tells me it could not find the drivers. same mode live cd.
How could I do?

I want to say also that I could install in achieving a live installation, but once I reboot, the problem remains the same.

Thank You

Swarfendor437

Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:05:04 pm

Hi Maes and welcome to the Zorin forum!

Can you follow the advice I gave here and see if it works for you too? Thanks!

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6729#p31822

Keep us posted!

Maes

Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:36:36 am

Thank you for the reply

I tried handling without success, I took a photo of what appears to me the screen.

http://www.noelshack.com/2014-13-1395750868-wp-20140325-004.jpg

No option works also. What is strange is that it shows me the window in graphical mode anyway.

Swarfendor437

Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:40:27 pm

Hi, can you post us with the make and model of your MSI (is this a notebook or an MSI motherboard?).
Thanks!

Maes

Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:55:34 pm

This is a notebook-GX60 3BE MSI.
Here is the link where I bought it but since it is a French site (http://www.materiel.net/ordinateur-portable/msi-gx60-3ae-212fr-hitman-edition-89143.html),

I also made ​​a version that is closer (except less powerful processor) an English site.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-MSI-GX60-Notebook.86283.0.html
or http://www.anandtech.com/show/7111/amds-a105750m-review-part-2-the-msi-gx60-gaming-notebook

Thank you.

Swarfendor437

Tue Mar 25, 2014 9:56:21 pm

Hi, I think the issue could be around the AMD graphics and somebody posted about AMD not supporting GNU/Linux any more or certain graphics. When you see the boot screen, does it say at the bottom 'Press Tab' or 'e' to edit the boot commands? Whatever key is showing in the boot menu, press that and it should drop to a command prompt - at the end of whatever is showing enter:

Code:
nomodeset


and see if it will boot then, if not, repeat the exercise above but also add after 'nomodeset'

Code:
acpi=off


Keep us posted!

Maes

Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:16:42 pm

I managed to launch with "nomodeset" with the CD, the installation worked flawlessly.

However, I do not know where to put "nomodeset" with grub.

I stuck that gives me the editor when I do "e"
when I put it in the end, it tells me that the function does not exist. And loads normally, however, the problem persists well.

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2014/13/1395789387-wp-20140325-008-1.jpg
Sorry for the bad quality

Otherwise, what would be the manipulation to be done for the drivers functioned normally?

Thank you for your patience!

PS = The tried live cd is already great!

Swarfendor437

Wed Mar 26, 2014 1:16:05 pm

There have been reports that after install the issue gets resolved - have you tried installing after you have booted using 'nomodeset'?