D. R. Evans wrote on 1/27/20 2:57 PM: > Running debian stable (64 bit). > > For the past couple of months I've been trying to get a system with onboard > Intel graphics to work completely correctly, but have never been able to get > rid of flicker on the console tty or on fine text in konsole in a graphical > desktop. There are enough threads on the Internet about this sort of issue and > the Intel driver to indicate that this is a somewhat common problem with > various combinations of hardware when using an Intel chipset, and although > there is a lot of ad hoc advice, it seems that not everyone can successfully > work around what appears to be a bug in the Intel driver. Having tried all the > suggested fixes I saw, and none of them working, I decided to avoid the issue > by installing a non-Intel graphics card. > > A friend gave me an MSI Geforce GTX 750 Ti card, but I am having no success > getting it working. > > 1. Normally (i.e., when using the Intel hardware/software), after two beeps on > power on I can hit DEL a couple of times and be taken to the BIOS control > screens. With the Geforce card, everything just stays blank (forever) if I hit > DEL after the two beeps. So the first issue is: how can I access the BIOS > control screens when using this card? > > 2. If I boot with the monitor attached to the Geforce card and don't touch > anything at all, then, after a very long time, I see the stream of Linux text > messages that indicates booting, but I never see a graphical login screen. I also don't ever see the blue GRUB screen that normally counts down for five seconds before printing the text output. The Linux boot text output is the first thing to appear. > (The delay before the messages appear is far longer than a normal boot cycle > -- indeed, I had given up waiting for something to happen and was pondering my > next move when suddenly the messages started flying by). This sounds like > perhaps a driver issue of some kind, so what packages do I need to be sure are > installed to allow booting into a graphical environment with this card? > > The one hopeful sign is that when I see that text messages, the text doesn't > flicker... unlike when I boot with the Intel chipset/driver. > > I'm sure I'm missed out important information, so feel free to ask and I'll do > my best to answer. > Or, if someone can suggest a low-end graphics card that is just plug-and-play (I don't play games or need 3D stuff at all), maybe it'll just be easier to buy one and swap out the Geforce GTX 750 Ti, which is vastly more card than I need. Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans
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