On 4/13/26 12:56 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote:
Tried something new today: A fresh install of trixie on a "modern"
(2 year old) laptop.
First boot, after what I perceived as a successful install, resulted in
a black screen with a frozen cursor on top left. No response to any key
press. Hard power off was the only way out.
Booting in recovery mode and installing firmware-intel-graphics fixed
the problem.
For now, we have no idea how you did install Trixie.
But how many new users will know how to
- boot into recovery mode,
- configure networking manually,
- guess that a firmware is missing,
- know which package to look for, and
- how to install it from the command line?
My guess is that approximately 100% of users facing such issues will
simply try another distro, until they find one that works out of the
box.
This is NOT a question about non-free firmware blobs. I'm fine with
asking users to explictly install those. The problem is that there was
no such question,
What verbosity did you use?
Look in "/var/log/installer" to see what went wrong..
--
John Doe
