Re: Video problem
Maureen L Thomas composed on 2016-08-12 00:56 (UTC-0400):
> 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.
"Oh No!" sounds like you installed Gnome. Gnome is picky. Trying to use it
with nomodeset on cmdline is usually a lost cause unless using the NVidia
video driver.
> 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.
#1-Remove nomodeset from the Grub configuration. Its only use in recent
releases of any distro is for emergency repairs, unless you are dependent
on the proprietary NVidia video driver.
#2-Purge the Intel Xorg driver. This should make Xorg use the internal
modeset driver automatically.
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/4cojj9/it_is_probably_time_to_ditch_xf86videointel/
explains why.
If these fail to help, reply back with lspci output, and provide via
http://paste.debian.net/ or equivalent /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
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