Top posting for consistency. I booted the Gentoo GUI media. I opened a window just in case it rebooted or something while I took a little nap. The resolution is 1080P which is what I expected the monitor to run at. When I got back up a few minutes ago, the same window was there. It ran for hours without the monitor powering off. I think this eliminates hardware.
I found a Knoppix USB stick, for some reason Knoppix doesn't show up on the Ventoy stick even tho it is there, and booted that stick. I opened a window the same as I did on the Gentoo media, just in case it reboots or something. It's already ran longer than my install did. No problems so far. I'm not expecting any really given it ran fine on the Gentoo media. I also found something new. I can go in the BIOS menu and boot a USB stick directly from that by just clicking on it. O_O WOW!!! I said the new BIOS had improved by a lot. Can that thing wash dishes too??? LOL Still open to ideas if anyone has any. If not, I may safe key files and start over, and fix my partition layout too. This is progress. Hardware is good. :-D Dale :-) :-) Dale wrote: > Hi Mark, > > I think you have a good point. I think I missed something. Gentoo can > be complicated to get going the first time with all the config options. > Once it is going tho, it goes. I feel I missed either a config option > in the guide or maybe some package is missing that isn't pulled in as a > dependency. I could have a wrong USE flag too. > > Along your lines of thinking, I'll boot the Gentoo GUI image which has a > GUI. I tend not to use it but I can let it run and see what resolution > it runs at. If it fails to, then it may be hardware. If it runs fine, > something on my install in wonky. I may test with Knoppix as well. I'm > pretty sure I have a EFI version lurking about here somewhere. > > Those are good ideas. No problem with top posting. I top posted to > make it easier for you to read my reply. ;-) > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > > > Mark Knecht wrote: >> Dale, >> Sorry for top posting but I'm travelling and responding on my phone. >> >> I don't think this is you hardware and probably not KDE. It's >> possibly some Gentoo-ish issue. >> >> To test and get a KDE config I would boot a Kubuntu flash drive and >> choose the 'Try it's option which installs nothing. If the GUI stays >> up then look at drivers and general config. I run Kubuntu on 5 >> machines, all with different hardware, and I've never had a failure >> that I did cause. I've installed Kubuntu on at least 20 machines over >> the last 6 or 7 machines and every one has booted first time. >> >> Give it a try. If it does fail then it's possibly something about >> your hardware but if the machine works as well as you say then I would >> buy you a cup of coffee if it's not Gentoo-bssed. >> >> Good luck, >> Mark >
