On 2022-12-18 00:53, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/17/22 13:00, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote:
My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update.
If you want a GNU/Linux distribution that "just works", one
possibility is Debian Stable and "supported hardware". The former
is easy -- download a d-i ISO. The latter can be anywhere from
trivial to impossible to determine a priori; the practical answer
is install and find out.
What is the manufacturer, model, and part number of your computer?
What options does it have? What components have you added,
changed, or removed? What external hardware is connected? Do you
have a broadband Internet connection?
What d-i media did you use? Where did you get it? Did you verify
the checksum of the download and/or media?
Thanks David, but as I explained, Debian/Stable doesn't "just work".
You need the second part of your condition, but it's hard to know if
hardware is supported until you try it. And what doesn't work one
week may work the next.
I don't blame Debian in this case. It's clearly an nVidia problem.
Normally I stay away from them when getting something for Linux, but
I got a great Black Friday deal. That's why I even got a new laptop
to begin with. Apart from the nVidia components, it seems to work fine.
Added nothing - just removed the Windows partitions and installed
Linux.
As I explained, I used Debian netinst copied to a Ventoy USB. What
was strange is that Stable has no problem installing (just problems
running) but Testing seems to get hung up with the networking (when
I tried a graphical install, it at least showed that was what it was
doing. The text based installer flashed something on the screen but
never got around to doing more than the background colours - no text
or progress bar - so I wasn't sure what it was doing). Also the
current testing alpha netinst iso doesn't seem work with Ventoy,
which meant I had to dd it to its own usb stick. And yes, I only
download the files from debian.org.
Have you tried finding the Debian Testing netinst checksums? You can
find them for the weekly builds if you look hard enough but not the
ones for the Alpha release. I thought maybe the alpha release would
be a little more stable than a weekly build....
I can confirm that the problem with FAT32 was fixed by a reboot. I
don't reboot every day normally,
The laptop is an ASUS FA506ICB. I'll be filing a bug report or three
later. Yesterday I just needed to get it working again, but I wanted
to document the pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth - I suspect I
may have to do this again...
STFW "ASUS FA506ICB linux" I am not seeing any promising hits. I
would re-install Windows, run Debian Stable in a VM, STFW
periodically, wait for a post by someone who succeeds running a
GNU/Linux distribution on that machine, and try again.
David
You didn't read what I wrote. I've actually got it running quite well.
The only thing is that it seems to need the proprietary nVidia drivers
- the Nouveau ones won't cut it. Also, there seems to be an issue with
sddm - gdm3 and lightdm both work.
I can recommend the laptop as a reasonable candidate for Linux. Apart
from the need for proprietary drivers, which is something I blame
nVidia for, it seems to work perfectly.