On Thursday 31 March 2016 18:24:35 Steve McIntyre wrote: > Yup, of course! I can see that based on your information "Giga-Byte > GA-H110M-S2H" Henrique has provided more help and it may be > bleeding-ege hardware issues. Let's see how that goes when you get > back from your trip, I guess. :-)
Next instalment. Apart from practically causing me to stop breathing the re-flash was so easy I couldn't quite believe it. I had a look at the BIOS, and left the optimised defaults I had been told to ask for alone. (tl:dr - or too incoherent - go to end) Then I started the installation. It went fine up to partitioning. I could find no way of persuading it to let me have a gpt scheme instead of what was there - i.e. totally reformat the drive. I chickened out and ran back to Knoppix and Gparted. Simply wiped it clean and reset it to gpt instead of dos. Then back to the installer. Apart form very slight hiccups due to my never having done a gpt partition scheme before all went swimmingly and the installation was easy and incident free. But once I started using it, life got harder. I installed Firefox (Debian version) and Google Chrome, went onto YouTube and started to try and turn sound on. Everything froze. Managed finally to persuade the keyboard to let me into tty4. Shut down everything that mentioned google and suddenly found myself at the GUI log-in screen. I logged in, tried to shut down, went in various circles (GUI/login screen/tty), finally managed to shut down. When I started again the ps2 mouse won't work. Nor will another ps2 mouse. A USB mouse will work, but this is a new motherboard. :-( My attempts to get sound working also have bourne no fruit. *everything* in alsamixer is at maximum. I have tried setting alsamixer to both the sound cards it offers. But pavucontrol stubbornly continues to insist on using HDMI. My husband asked why I didn't just use HDMI. Answer: I haven't got an HDMI monitor. :-( So: my mouse doesn't work, although it had been working initially, the sound doesn't work. But Debian installed this time. It would be nice if it were usable!! Lisi
