On Thursday 16 July 2020 07:43:38 Felmon Davis wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2020, Gerhard Zintel wrote: > > On 16/07/2020 16:02, Lou Gogan wrote: > >> You could install/use the character selector program as a temp measure > > > > On console / terminal?! No graphics available for Felmon. > > > > G > > yeah, that's the problem. > > however I got my '|'! > > I've booted to MX, specifically MX-19.2_ahs_x64.iso. > > it crashes out of the DE to the command line or rather stalls on F7 > but you get a command line at F1. the alt-gr+> trick works! > > I think it's detected wi-fi! iwconfig yields some output for wlan0. > ah, 'nmcli device wifi list' shows various SSIDs! > > 'inxi -G' doesn't say much. > > so that's brought me far. in principle I could install a command-line > only system. > > not sure how much more I want to struggle but maybe I can get a DE > working. > > f. Felix Miata mentioned something about installing TDE entirely by the command-line. Now where is he when we need him? Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting