Anno domini 17:36:40 Thu, 16 Jul 2020 +0200 (CEST) Felmon Davis scripsit: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2020, William Morder via trinity-users wrote: > > > > > > > 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? > > we don't need him! > > well, we do actually, but not in this case - I GOT A DESKTOP! > > I booted MX again; it's got a funny text-based options window - you > can select language etc. that helps. > > but on the kernel parameter line I tried > > amdgui.dc=0 > > which is a little ditty I found last night actually but lost track of. > > now it's started a DE, seems to be some kind of xfce. > > I'm going to try the little ditty on a Debian Live usb. the kernel on > this version of MX is: > > Linux mx1 5.6.0-2-amd64 > > it's Buster of course. > > resolution looks fine btw. > > I'm a bit late to the party now :) Ify can, stay away from systemd. i.e. MX is nice, IMO you can install TDE on it, too. And Devuan of course :) Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
