Larry Dighera wrote: ... > What I have discovered thus far, is that Debian wants to launch X11 by > default, instead of the command line UI. That appears to result in a black > screen with a frozen system. > > At this point, I have no idea of the correct way to boot to the command line > interface, so I temporarily renamed lightdm, and now it boots to the command > line interface apparently after X11 fails to launch. So, it appears that it > is X11 that has possible issues with the hardware or is misconfigured. > Perhaps there is something in X11's /var/log file that will provide a clue > about why it was failing to successfully launch.
hope so! also check the session logs in lightdm... > So, it appears that grub is correctly configured after all. > > What is the correct way to configure the system to boot to the command line > UI instead of X11? Do I need to edit things, or add files to, /etc/rc.d > someplace? Or is there a higher-level way to tell systemd that I prefer to > manually launch X11? install the base system to start and then add the next layers after. lightdm by default should not take you any further than the lightdm greeter login screen without you adjusting the configuration files. is there some reason not to give the current testing images for the installer a try? it may have better support for newer hardware. > I'm aware that running the startx script is a reasonable way to launch X11 > when I want it, but I'll have to diagnose its issue(s) first. My past > familiarity with AT&T Unix from the early '80s through the '90s was pre-X11, > so I'm going to have to learn how to administrate X11 now I suppose. > > I sincerely appreciate your kind efforts in guiding me. I gives me the > motivation to continue spending the time to get Jessie up on the new Udoo > X86 platform. the keyword being "new" there makes me go "hmm..." :) [i have no idea what a Udoo is...] songbird
