[PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

[Ben Koenig]

If nomodeset resolves your problems then you can assume that
everything will work.

What you did was disable Kernel ModeSetting ( or KMS ) which allows
the radeon driver to kick in and enable full hardware acceleration
without X11. You might notice that your resolution stays low during
boot, rather than kicking in halfway through.
This does NOT affect hardware acceleration in X11. So as long as you
are running gnome in an X server you are fine. This is just known
quirky behavior with the new rendering subsystem in the kernel on
older hardware.

Most applications don't care one way or another about KMS, however any
of the hyper-modern desktop interfaces  (gnome3 shell, KDE plasma,
Cinnamon) will probably show their ugly faces at some point in the
future.

All you want to do here is make sure your CPU usage is not up through
the roof and continue about your day :-)


On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 1:13 PM Michael Christopher Robinson
<michael at robinson-west.com> wrote:
>
> nomodeset kernel command line argument works like a charm, but I'm not
> accelerated because the graphics chip isn't supported...  Does this
> matter to me?  Maybe, maybe not.  I should be able to run Microsoft
> Office or the latest Libreoffice no problem.  I could say stick with 7
> on this old beast, but I can't even get the iso for Windows 7 Home
> Premium where the sticker even if I could is faded out...  so without
> the Windows 7 Home Premium key I can't install that anyways...  Uge!
> I preserved the restore partition on the original hard drive, but I
> don't know if Windows 7 Pro can restore Home Premium over itself.
> Besides, I prefer pro for business use.  Found out that HP allows you
> to download some of the drivers etcetera still for the G62, but I'm
> not sure I'm satisfied with going pro and trying to install the HP
> software to it.  Seven is going out of support life where it would
> probably be better to run CentOS and wine for office...
>
> Aside from Microsoft pushing everyone to 10 which has to be online all
> the time, bad for business users...  7 is getting pushed under the bus.
> If I go to Linux we are up to date and there are zero licenses to worry
> about unless we absolutely have to run some version of Microsoft
> Office.  I don't like that seven has so many updates since SP1 and they
> don't like to install properly.  I've been trying with an OEM disk from
> Microsoft for Windows 7 Professional.  Not what I prefer.  This is
> installed on my personal desktop system, but I almost never use it.
> Technically, I am legal to use two copies of 7, but I don't have the
> for parts HP G62 with a legible W7 license on it.  Could be Home
> Premium in which case I'm screwed because I don't have a DVD for 7 Home
> Premium.  Tried to download Windows 7 Home Premium from Microsoft, but
> the site doesn't seem to be working...
>
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