Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Attached is a picture of the lspci -nn results. I do hope these help. > I tried to get into Xorg.0.log and saw that there were two of them, one > old and the regular one. I couldn't remember the command to read them > so I didn't get a copy of them. If you need anything else I will gladly > comply. > > > On 08/12/2016 02:05 AM, deloptes wrote: >> Maureen L Thomas wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >>> 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. Thank you for helping. >>> Maureen >> Maureen, >> if it is a pretty new computer model, it might be that Jessie (Debian >> 8.5) is too old for it. >> First try the Xorg.conf from here >> http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=804.0 >> >> Second try the xorg.conf I attached - you can adapt it for your needs. It >> is based on the intel chipset (Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated >> Graphics Controller (rev 0b)) >> >> If it does not help try ubuntu or Debian Stretch/testing >> >> regards >>
based on the intel device 8086:22b1 I found this ( and much more in google ) https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Intel/NUC5PPYH It looks like this is newer hardware - perhaps you would be best off if you use ubuntu or debian testing. http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/295473/intel-braswell-integrated-graphics-on-debian-jessie very interesting thread in gentoo https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1034212-start-0.html?sid=993fb2e001a9fa1ef011c049aa730f30 https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1006032-highlight-vgaarb.html I can conclude following: Linux users usually do a profound research about the hardware they are buying. I don't know how you got this peace of hardware, but it looks like there are issues with the grafics chip everywhere. I would advise to ask on the xorg intel driver forum. regards
