Re: Dell Inspiron 17 3000 Series 3785 problem with X
On Wed, 2019-08-14 at 13:11 -0400, Moshe Piekarski wrote:
> On 8/14/19 1:06 PM, ernst doubt wrote:
> > Thank you for the response Moshe. i was able to succeed this
> > morning
> > (using the ip command to get online via ethernet in recovery mode).
> Glad to know you got it working.
> > After manually configuring my networking, i'm pretty sure the
> > package
> > that solved my issue (for the benefit of anyone else stumbling
> > across
> > this) was linux-firmware-nonfree -- after installing it, i rebooted
> > and
> > X works
>
> linux-firmware-nonfree is a metapackage. it just pulls in several of
> the non-free firmware packages.
Thanks for clarifying. In my haste i noticed several packages being
installed, but assumed they were dependencies. Should have looked
closer.
>
> > (and for the record, there is no /var/log/X directory on my
> > laptop -- must be a change with buster (or farther back?)). The
> > file
> I'm sorry I wasn't clear I was referring to
> /var/log/Xorg.(0).log(.old)
> > /var/log/daemon.log seemed to have a fair amount of relevant
> > information in it though.
No worries. i was actually the one who was being unclear. But in any
case, there's no file(s) named Xorg* either:
root@deletion:/var/log# ls -latr
total 4692
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 8 2019
firebird
drwx--x--x 2 root Debian-gdm 4096 Feb 9 2019 gdm3
drwx------ 2 speech-dispatcher root 4096 Feb 20 07:22 speech-
dispatcher
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Aug 12 21:32 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 13 06:52 hp
-rw-r--r-- 1 sddm sddm 0 Aug 13 07:37
sddm.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5432 Aug 13 07:46
fontconfig.log
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 13 17:36
installer
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 17:37 private
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 17:37 cups
drwxr-x--- 2 root adm 4096 Aug 13 17:37
unattended-upgrades
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32032 Aug 14 07:42 faillog
drwxr-s--- 2 Debian-exim adm 4096 Aug 14 07:43 exim4
-rw-rw---- 1 root utmp 1152 Aug 14 07:48 btmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 14 08:33
popularity-contest.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 113004 Aug 14 08:34
popularity-contest.new
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Aug 14 08:34 .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34036 Aug 14 08:34
popularity-contest.new.gpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 292292 Aug 14 08:41 lastlog
-rw------- 1 root root 47830 Aug 14 09:00
boot.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 14 09:15 apt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 13056 Aug 14 09:16 wtmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62839 Aug 14 09:16
alternatives.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1278336 Aug 14 09:18
dpkg.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 73515 Aug 14 09:23 debug
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 495727 Aug 14 13:19
kern.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 395060 Aug 14 13:19
user.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 753781 Aug 14 13:19
messages
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 14022 Aug 14 13:19
auth.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1141357 Aug 14 13:19 syslog
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 243277 Aug 14 13:19
daemon.log
> >
> > Now i'm off and running with KDE (and couldn't be happier :-])
> >
> > thanks again,
> > ~c
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Moshe Piekarski
>
> --
>
> There's no such thing as a stupid question,
>
> But there are plenty of inquisitive idiots.
>
>
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