On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 19:00:03 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote:
Frank Miles wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Frank Miles wrote:
but if I switched out of X to a terminal (Alt-Ctrl-Fn) the system
would crash. In addition, shutdown would only start, then it would
crash
What graphics card do you have there?
There is no graphics card - the CPU does the graphics.
But if you didn't have a graphics adapter then you wouldn't have
anything to plug the cable to the monitor into! :-) Almost certainly
you are using the onboard one. In this case most likely the Intel
integrated graphics controller.
lspci
lspci | grep VGA
You should see some type of graphics controller listed. Probably an
Integrated controller. Being integrated onboard it still resides on the
bus.
Yes, of course. I guess I took your question about a 'card' too literally.
lspci -> VGA compatible controller: Intel corporation Haswell integrated
graphics controller (rev 06)
Yes, I installed the nonfree firmware excepting a whole lot intended
for wifi devices that aren't in my system.
I would then check 'dmesg' for any errors. In particular I would look
at the KMS (kernel mode setting) parts. In recent Linux kernels they
have made massive changes to the console. It is possible, perhaps even
likely, that the problem is KMS related.
Other than an ACPI 'namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (which occurred
in the past - if I try to boot without the rescue disk it doesn't leave
anything new in the logs). This makes me suspect a disk-related problem
(for the boot issue, not the video mode-switch), but how or why?? I haven't
seen anything explicit regarding KMS, but I may have missed it - will look
further.
Other than this I have no ideas. Hopefully someone else will have a
better suggestion.
Bob
Thanks for trying! I hope so too.