On Wed, 2019-08-14 at 13:11 -0400, Moshe Piekarski wrote: > On 8/14/19 1:06 PM, ernst doubt wrote: > > Thank you for the response Moshe. i was able to succeed this > > morning > > (using the ip command to get online via ethernet in recovery mode). > Glad to know you got it working. > > After manually configuring my networking, i'm pretty sure the > > package > > that solved my issue (for the benefit of anyone else stumbling > > across > > this) was linux-firmware-nonfree -- after installing it, i rebooted > > and > > X works > > linux-firmware-nonfree is a metapackage. it just pulls in several of > the non-free firmware packages.
Thanks for clarifying. In my haste i noticed several packages being installed, but assumed they were dependencies. Should have looked closer. > > > (and for the record, there is no /var/log/X directory on my > > laptop -- must be a change with buster (or farther back?)). The > > file > I'm sorry I wasn't clear I was referring to > /var/log/Xorg.(0).log(.old) > > /var/log/daemon.log seemed to have a fair amount of relevant > > information in it though. No worries. i was actually the one who was being unclear. But in any case, there's no file(s) named Xorg* either: root@deletion:/var/log# ls -latr total 4692 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 8 2019 firebird drwx--x--x 2 root Debian-gdm 4096 Feb 9 2019 gdm3 drwx------ 2 speech-dispatcher root 4096 Feb 20 07:22 speech- dispatcher drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Aug 12 21:32 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 13 06:52 hp -rw-r--r-- 1 sddm sddm 0 Aug 13 07:37 sddm.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5432 Aug 13 07:46 fontconfig.log drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 13 17:36 installer drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 17:37 private drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 17:37 cups drwxr-x--- 2 root adm 4096 Aug 13 17:37 unattended-upgrades -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32032 Aug 14 07:42 faillog drwxr-s--- 2 Debian-exim adm 4096 Aug 14 07:43 exim4 -rw-rw---- 1 root utmp 1152 Aug 14 07:48 btmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 14 08:33 popularity-contest.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 113004 Aug 14 08:34 popularity-contest.new drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Aug 14 08:34 . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34036 Aug 14 08:34 popularity-contest.new.gpg -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 292292 Aug 14 08:41 lastlog -rw------- 1 root root 47830 Aug 14 09:00 boot.log drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 14 09:15 apt -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 13056 Aug 14 09:16 wtmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62839 Aug 14 09:16 alternatives.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1278336 Aug 14 09:18 dpkg.log -rw-r----- 1 root adm 73515 Aug 14 09:23 debug -rw-r----- 1 root adm 495727 Aug 14 13:19 kern.log -rw-r----- 1 root adm 395060 Aug 14 13:19 user.log -rw-r----- 1 root adm 753781 Aug 14 13:19 messages -rw-r----- 1 root adm 14022 Aug 14 13:19 auth.log -rw-r----- 1 root adm 1141357 Aug 14 13:19 syslog -rw-r----- 1 root adm 243277 Aug 14 13:19 daemon.log > > > > Now i'm off and running with KDE (and couldn't be happier :-]) > > > > thanks again, > > ~c > > Sincerely, > > Moshe Piekarski > > -- > > There's no such thing as a stupid question, > > But there are plenty of inquisitive idiots. > >
