On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Felix Miata mrmazda@earthlink.net wrote:
Your bootloader needs to have a less limiting selection made, or created, one that at the very least lacks
nomodesetwhich blocks use of modeset and nouveau drivers. rhgb and quiet prevent you from seeing possibly helpful messages as init proceeds. They are typically not needed by people who like to know how init is progressing. I'm not familiar with "crashkernel". Likely that's only for a rescue stanza, not normally needed.
(Damn gmail used to have Quote Selected Text and they pulled it a couple weeks ago so now I have to do it manually - grumble. Not paying my Google bill this month)
Pulling nomodeset gets me lots of stuff that looks exciting in Xorg.0.log but leaves me with a black display after spitting out the now-displayed boot messages (which go by far too quickly to read - maybe I'll video with my phone).
Assuming that nomodeset really is what I want and that now I need to get the card configured for some mode I can see, how would I do that?
I'm also seeing that tdm.log has unhappiness in it, namely:
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" nvc0_screen_create:762 - Error allocating PGRAPH context for M2MF: -16 EGL_MESA_drm_image required. Jul 21 16:53:18 tdm[1812] error: X server startup timeout, terminating (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. Jul 21 16:54:13 tdm[1812] error: X server for display :0 can't be started, session disabled
The line with the PGRAPH thing turned up a bug against Puppy linux at https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1675811 that seems similar ... ick.
I really regret dumping the Ubuntu 14.04LTS image that was pre-installed on this system because while not configured for TDE, it was driving the card/display correctly. :-)