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2016-06-21 21:40:08 Post No. 55195658
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2016-06-21 21:40:08
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>Asked by sister to reinstall Windows 7 on her laptop
>Prepare USB stick, make it bootable, install Windows, all is fine
>Of course, there are no drivers on first boot-up
>No network access, device manager only displays "unknown devices"
>Check PCI IDs in devman, Google them on main Linux computer, find it on Linux-related website for PCI IDs
>Download driver and transfer it on USB stick
>WiFi is now working, let's get video drivers running for the laptop's AMD APU
>Use stock IE8 to get to AMDs website
>Literally nothing works, page scrolling is disabled for whatever reason, Web 3.0 standards dictate nav-menus must use so large text that they don't fit in the VGA driver's 800x600 resolution, arrow keys can't scroll, space can't scroll
>Realize after a few minutes that I can drag-select text to scroll
>Windows presents no way to find out what APU model is in this laptop, download AMD's autodetect software
>"A-series APU detected"
>Click Download button, get taken to page that says "Thanks for using AMD's autodetect software, do you want to register for updates?"
>Google Linux sites for PCI IDs again
>Go to driver download page for Radeon HD 8xxx series
>Pajeet decided it would be a good idea to produce the actual download links with JavaScript, and this of course doesn't work on IE8 for whatever reason
>Give up, download Chrome
>Wow, so usability, pages are now scrollable!
>Manage to download driver
>"Analyzing system"
>"Detection driver error"
>Fucking give up
I'd have a working Linux system up on this laptop an hour ago.
