Folks
Starting with the standard desktop flavour of 16.04, I always managed to
get in a tangle on my old Dell Precision 390 when trying to add Trinity.
It has an old Quadro NVS 285 video card that works nicely once Trinity is
installed but makes a mess of the default desktop with my dual 1280x1920
screens.
I had to blacklist nouveau and install the Nvidea driver, which is far
more than necessary, the latest version won't work anyway, and a real pain
in the derriere.
I suspect people will have similar problems trying many current versions
of Linux with a lot of old kit which is otherwise perfectly adequate and
functional.
So just install (Ubuntu 16.04) SERVER (ie no X), upgrade all packages, add
the Trinity repositories then install kubuntu-default-settings-trinity and
kubuntu-desktop-trinity.
Nothing else - it pulls in all the packages required, all 500 odd of them.
No messing with a fuzzy purple screen, you see all the console startup
meesages and then it loads TDE on F7 and of course you can get a command
line login in Ctl-Alt-F1 etc.
Very nice and clean. Who wants any other desktop? And why ask for a
bundled Trinity Linux which makes unnecessary extra work?
Perhaps such a hint could be added to the installation guides...
Best wishes
John
John Logsdon
Quantex Research Ltd
+44 161 445 4951/+44 7717758675
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