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Re: Gigabyte mother board AMD cpu



On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:17:40 -0400
Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:19:42PM +1100, Ike Shields wrote:
> > I have Gigabyte mother board with AMD cpu No. GA-78LMT-S2P
> > I need the drivers for it. I am using Debian Release 7.4 (wheezy)
> > 64-bit
> 
> Everything on that motherboard should work in Debian. The onboard
> video card needs xserver-xorg-video-radeon or fglrx-driver from
> non-free. The ethernet wants firmware-realtek.  USB3 should work
> immediately.
> 
> Anything else?
> 
> -dsr-

I have no idea which mobos Debian handles out of the box, but what I've
observed is that life is much nicer if:

* You do the network install
* Choose Expert install or whatever it's called
* Say yes (default is no) to "install nonfree software

When I do that, stuff just works.

SteveT

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