On 8/14/19 2:51 AM, Ernst Doubt wrote:
Greetings,
i've been an avid debian user for more than 2 decades at this point
and just
bought myself my first laptop. It and buster are new enough that a
quick web
search didn't show me much. Apologies if questions of this sort
have been
asked before (i subscribed myself to the list instead of doing an
extensive
search (i did check for 'dell 3785' and none of the results seemed
like they
were particularly helpful)).
So i managed to install successfully (the LVM level encryption
option seems
very excellent -- that's what i chose) but when i restarted, the
machine hung.
Gnome Display Manager tried to briefly start. No GUI appeared
though -- only a
momentary flicker of the screen (with no mouse pointer, only a
blinking
underscore at the top left of the display) before reverting to
command line
output. After dropping back to the command line, no login prompt is available (nor am i able to access any other consoles via ctrl-alt-
Fn nor alt-Fn key combinations. Fortunately i am able to get a root
prompt in rescue mode, so i'm
hopeful (that with the help of some of you kind people) that i will
be able to
succeed in getting my preferred KDE desktop environment to
eventually load.
This sounds a lot like a graphics card bug. (see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156341 for a possibly
related bug in nvidia cards)
I have several questions:
How do i enable networking from the command line?Try ifconfig and dhclient. Alternatively wicd network manager has a
curses interface.
i assume i can do this inI think so but you may want to try booting into multi-user mode
rescue mode?
instead
i was able to connect to my wireless network during the install,
but if it's easier to plug in an ethernet cable, i'm happy to try
that instead
(DHCP is enabled (both wireless and ethernet end up in the same
network at my home), though i'm willing to set a static IP also).
What log files should i be looking for on this newly installedTwo good places to start would probably be /var/log/X* and
buster machine?
journalctl, after setting storage to persistent (if you are using
systemd).
My guess is that i may have to install some proprietary non-freefirmware-amd-graphics (from non-free) may help.
firmware
packages (which i'm OK with).
My quick web search indicated that ubuntu ought
to work, but i'd rather stick with debian (though it's possible
that at some
point in the future i'll cry uncle). Would it be helpful for me to
boot from a live DVD (either debian or ubuntu) in order to
troubleshoot this problem?
thanks so very much for any assistance/insight anyone is able
to provide,
~e
On 8/14/19 1:06 PM, ernst doubt wrote:
Thank you for the response Moshe. i was able to succeed thisGlad to know you got it working.
morning
(using the ip command to get online via ethernet in recovery mode).
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.
(and for the record, there is no /var/log/X directory on myI'm sorry I wasn't clear I was referring to
laptop -- must be a change with buster (or farther back?)). The
file
/var/log/Xorg.(0).log(.old)
/var/log/daemon.log seemed to have a fair amount of relevant
information in it though.
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.
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