Re: Dell Inspiron 17 3000 Series 3785 problem with X
On Wed, 2019-08-14 at 14:20 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 08:11:34AM -0400, ernst doubt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > i had sent a message to debian-laptop a few hours back, but all
> > i've
> > seen so far is one response (suggesting i use q4os). i'm pretty
> > committed to using debian directly though (at least until i've
> > tried an
> > awful lot more things).
> >
> > After installing buster, this brand new laptop of mine seems to
> > hang on
> > X (GDM) starting -- after briefly showing a flashing underscore
> > char in
> > the top left corner of the screen, it drops back to command-line
> > output
> > (but doesn't allow me to login).
>
> [...]
>
> It seems that your X server is giving up for some reason.
>
> Not a graphics expert here, but you may get some hints by inpecting
> the X log file (called typically Xorg.0.log -- it usually lives in
> /var/log or perhaps in your home directory. Towards the end, you
> might find some lines tagged with (EE) -- those are errors.
>
> The content of that file might be of help to folks around here to
> diagnose your problem.
>
> Cheers
> -- tomás
Thanks for all the help folks. i managed to solve it on my own. Pretty
sure it was the linux-firmware-nonfree package that did it.
best,
~e
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