I have an asus a53ta and I pulled it out of retirement to try and get linux mint running on it but its stuck at 1024x768 and the amd proprietary drivers are outdated. Any idea if another driver can be loaded?
Here's my system info from inxi -Fxz
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halfnhalf wrote: ⤴Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:18 pm
I have an asus a53ta and I pulled it out of retirement to try and get linux mint running on it but its stuck at 1024x768 and the amd proprietary drivers are outdated. Any idea if another driver can be loaded?
Welcome to the forum, halfnhalf.
The drivers are in the kernel and should load automatically when you boot the computer. Yours did not for some reason.
After I installed mint for the first time earlier today it black screened every time I booted, so I booted to recovery mode and did apt upgrade. That seemed to at least let me boot into regular mode. The inxi output was posted from a regular boot. I'll try the live usb in a bit, just got home and not on that laptop. The other problem I have with it is it hangs after going to sleep. Won't wake up and have to restart. Also driver manager says everything is up to date
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halfnhalf wrote: ⤴Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:19 pmThe other problem I have with it is it hangs after going to sleep. Won't wake up and have to restart. Also driver manager says everything is up to date
Sleep/suspension will not work properly if the graphics drivers are not loaded.
Driver Manager is only for proprietary third party drivers. That does not apply for your hardware. As I already stated, the graphics drivers are in the kernel and should load automatically. They are not proprietary.
So I just tried it and it's now not booting into anything but recovery mode (which after apt upgrading earlier let me boot into what it called regular boot). Right now a regular boot just hangs with zero video output. Live usb disc has the same problem. I have to boot into compatibility mode or it wont work.
halfnhalf wrote: ⤴Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:51 pm
So I just tried it and it's now not booting into anything but recovery mode (which after apt upgrading earlier let me boot into what it called regular boot). Right now a regular boot just hangs with zero video output. Live usb disc has the same problem. I have to boot into compatibility mode or it wont work.
See if the suggestion in this topic [SOLVED] Linux Mint 21.1 boot hang - probably issue with Radeon graphic card about just using the integrated graphics is possible with your ASUS. That topic is a Lenovo, but it has Sumo and Whistler like you have. The setting to just use the onboard is in the BIOS/UEFI for that laptop.
Unfortunately my bios is so bare bones it doesn't have an option to turn off the discrete graphics. It's also an old bios version so I'm trying to upgrade it but asus only released a win flash exe file and the bios file isnt there to run from the bios, so I'm making a wintogo usb and hoping I can run it off there. Lmao this probably won't even work because the usb has to be fixed and not dynamic afaik. Might install Windows if this doesn't work but even then I have no idea if the new bios version will have the option to turn off discrete graphics. Oh well, I guess that will be the end of my journey if it doesn't.
halfnhalf wrote: ⤴Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:02 am Might install Windows if this doesn't work but even then I have no idea if the new bios version will have the option to turn off discrete graphics.
You might have the option in Windows to turn off/disable the discrete GPU or set it to only use the onboard. A number of manufacturers (I know HP was one) made it possible to select from an option in Windows rather than in the BIOS/UEFI. However, I don't know if that was HP-specific software or something in Windows.