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Hello I am not sure if Debian Live is the package installation-reports. That's why I ask here first. I had major problems to run Tails on the Medion Akoya and we tracked it down to Debian live so the Tails people can't do much. Here is a cpoy of the conversation with the Tails support about
trying all the workarounds suggested for Intel HD graphics. None
worked. I am not sure if it's the intel video driver at all or if
it has something to do with some powersafe-stuff. I can't really
check the xorg-logs or anything since the device is
next-to-unusable because of the bug. Regards Peter Guhl First of all: There is always an error message saying that GPIO could not be translated to GPIO (Corrigenda: Typo. Means to IRQ!) from a device called something like cherry... (maybe the graphics, maybe keyboard...) and the console always shows a bunch of repeating messages from the audio driver if you log in. (Annotation: I read at digitec.ch that Audio does not work on Linux, but that's another problem) Am 22.08.2019 um 10:37 schrieb tails-bugs@boum.org: On 21/08/2019 19:23, tails-bugs@boum.org wrote:From: Peter Guhl <peter.guhl@fhsstudents.ch> To: "tails-support-private@boum.org" <tails-support-private@boum.org> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 17:22:50 +0000Is this the screen saver, or just "going black" ? The lock screen seems to be activated, but the screen goes black immediately. A few seconds later, the power LED goes off. Not only in the desktop but also in the text console. I tried to turn of screen auto locking, but the pane in the system settings is grayed out so I can’t turn it off.Just to be sure, you mean, in power settings, "blank screen" (by default is 5 minutes) timeout setting is gray, or another setting ? It's the privacy settings dialog. The first option is gray. Screen auto lock can't turned off. Neither does gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver lock-enabled false have any effect. By the way, is your graphic card listed here: https://tails.boum.org/support/known_issues/graphics/ It's listed since everything Intel ever made is kind of listed. But I tried the workaround options with the following results: - nomodeset: The resolution is low and the desktop only loads halfways. I have the top-right controls to some extent, but never get the application menu or the desktop icons. In the GUI the blank screen does not occur. Maybe because of nomodeset but maybe just because the gnome screensaver isn't really functional anyway. - xorg-driver without nomodeset: - xorg-driver=intel: Normal startu including the bug described - xorg-driver=vesa: Error starting GDM with your graphics card: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series PCI Configuration Registers [8086:22b0]... + screen going blank every 20 seconds or so. --> apparently no VESA mode - xorg-driver=modesetting: Normal startup including the bug described - nomodeset + xorg-driver=vesa: gdm can't start. Same error-screen as without the nomodeset My conclusion is that either it's *not* the graphics diver's fault or it is *so faulty* that none of the workarounds make a real difference. It could be a good test to see if Debian Live has the same issue, Tails is based on that so it can help us to know and be sure if the issue is specific to Tails. If you can try this, it would be very helpful to us. I'll test the 4.0 beta first. I only have one USB-stick ready right now so switching OSes is a bit time consuming. If you are interested in testing, you can also test the upcoming version of Tails, if you do, please let us know if the bug you've encountered is still there. https://tails.boum.org/news/test_4.0-beta1/ Here we go: - GUI not really starting. Neither in normal mode nor in trouble shooting mode. GDM error message. - Console seems to work but I don't know the password to log in. - Screen does not get turned off. The background light stays on. But if GDM does not get up at all this is probably normal - Normal mode with nomodeset: Not booting into any GUI. Just black screen with underscore in the top-left corner. Occasional GDM error message as stated above when switching through the ttys. - Normal mode with xorg-driver=intel: Same error as the stable version. Normal boot into GUI but constantly turning off the screen. But when I tried to get back into the desktop the application menu and the desktop icons were missing and the top-right dropdown did not contain the settings icon anymore. So this was the "nomodeset"-situation 3.15 with a better screenresolution and the turning-screen-off-bug. I'd say the 4.0 beta is even worse. It combined everything and can't even boot without special boot parameters. For the Debian live test I'll use http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/10.0.0-live+nonfree/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-10.0.0-amd64-gnome+nonfree.iso since I do not expect any official vanilla debian to runn smoothly on such a cheap supermarket-computer brand like Medion. Those are, for sure, the cheapest China standard boards not caring if there's free documentation available. The results: The same bug. Turning the screen off (screen black, backlight off, power LED off) after just a few seconds. --> The bug is in Debian live. Now I have to write everything again and send it to Debian Regards Peter Guhl |