Maureen L Thomas composed on 2016-08-12 00:56 (UTC-0400): > Ok, so my roommate bought an acer aspire xc-704-g. It has an intel > celeron with intel HD Graphics with DDR3L sdram, shared memory. I have > wiped windows and installed debian 8.5. When it reboots it goes all the > way through the start up to the final sign on page but I get a blank > screen with -blinking in the upper left hand corner. > I went into grub on reboot and added nomodeset and got the white screen > saying OH NO! something has gone wrong notify the admin. LOL I am the > admin. I also tried startx in recovery mode and got a black empty > screen and a freeze.
"Oh No!" sounds like you installed Gnome. Gnome is picky. Trying to use it with nomodeset on cmdline is usually a lost cause unless using the NVidia video driver. > I downloaded the drivers from debian for the intel graphics and got the > latest 2.99 one. I put it on a USB and plugged it in before the install > began. Either it didn't get picked up or doesn't work either. My video > screen is an HP w2007 20 inch and it was working fine with the old > desktop and debian wheezy but it was hooked up via VGA. I had to use a > DVI converter to HDMI for this machine to hook it up. > What am I doing wrong or what can I do to get this machine up and > running. #1-Remove nomodeset from the Grub configuration. Its only use in recent releases of any distro is for emergency repairs, unless you are dependent on the proprietary NVidia video driver. #2-Purge the Intel Xorg driver. This should make Xorg use the internal modeset driver automatically. https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/4cojj9/it_is_probably_time_to_ditch_xf86videointel/ explains why. If these fail to help, reply back with lspci output, and provide via http://paste.debian.net/ or equivalent /var/log/Xorg.0.log. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
