Frank McCormick composed on 2018-12-01 18:10 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote:
>> Frank McCormick composed on 2018-12-01 17:19 (UTC-0500): >>> Felix Miata wrote: >>>> Frank McCormick composed on 2018-12-01 14:12 (UTC-0500): >>>> ... >>>> Try purging xserver-xorg-video-intel and restarting the server. Last >>>> official release of that >>>> driver was over 4 years ago. >>>> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Debian-Abandon-Intel-DDX > I purged it but had to reinstall as the machine would only boot to > a command line without it and with nomodeset. You're confusing me. With nomodeset you should expect crippled or worse X. Without nomodeset you should expect good. Good X with Intel GPU requires either modesetting driver included within the X server, or the unofficially deprecated xf86-video-intel driver provided by the xserver-xorg-video-intel package. Nomodeset is for rescue operations, proprietary non-Intel video drivers, and some ancient hardware. >> Maybe that's precisely the problem. Nomodeset is a cmdline (boot) parameter >> that blocks use of >> both competent X drivers for Intel's current century GPUs, modesetting and >> intel. > But didn't you just say the last official release of the driver was 4 > years ago ? https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/ > What's your >> Xorg.0.log report, or output from 'inxi -Gxx'? > frank@franklin:~$ inxi -Gxx > Graphics: Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: > Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 > chip ID: 8086:0042 > Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: intel resolution: > 1920x1080~60Hz > OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ironlake Desktop v: 2.1 > Mesa 18.2.6 direct render: Yes > frank@franklin:~$ This suggests you are booting without nomodeset, and xserver-xorg-video-intel is installed, so X is working, but something else is wrong. Please show Xorg.0.log via <https://paste.debian.net/> or use cmdline utility pastebinit and provide URL. Which DM is configured (login manager/greeter)? (cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager) Is Plymouth installed? If yes, try disabling it. (append plymouth.enable=0 to cmdline) Is Fedora working correctly? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/