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  Video problem Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> - 2016-08-12 07:00 +0200
    Re: Video problem Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-08-12 07:30 +0200
    Re: Video problem deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-08-12 08:10 +0200
      Re: Video problem deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-08-13 09:00 +0200

#171011 — Video problem

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.

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.  Thank you for helping.
Maureen

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#171012

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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Maureen L Thomas wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 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.  Thank you for helping.
> Maureen

Maureen,
if it is a pretty new computer model, it might be that Jessie (Debian 8.5)
is too old for it.
First try the Xorg.conf from here
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=804.0

Second try the xorg.conf I attached - you can adapt it for your needs. It is
based on the intel chipset (Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated
Graphics Controller (rev 0b))

If it does not help try ubuntu or Debian Stretch/testing

regards

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#171055

Maureen L Thomas wrote:

> Attached is a picture of the lspci -nn results.  I do hope these help.
> I tried to get into Xorg.0.log and saw that there were two of them, one
> old and the regular one.  I couldn't remember the command to read them
> so I didn't get a copy of them.  If you need anything else I will gladly
> comply.
> 
> 
> On 08/12/2016 02:05 AM, deloptes wrote:
>> Maureen L Thomas wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.  Thank you for helping.
>>> Maureen
>> Maureen,
>> if it is a pretty new computer model, it might be that Jessie (Debian
>> 8.5) is too old for it.
>> First try the Xorg.conf from here
>> http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=804.0
>>
>> Second try the xorg.conf I attached - you can adapt it for your needs. It
>> is based on the intel chipset (Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated
>> Graphics Controller (rev 0b))
>>
>> If it does not help try ubuntu or Debian Stretch/testing
>>
>> regards
>>

based on the intel device 8086:22b1 I found this ( and much more in google )

https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Intel/NUC5PPYH

It looks like this is newer hardware - perhaps you would be best off if you
use ubuntu or debian testing.

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/295473/intel-braswell-integrated-graphics-on-debian-jessie

very interesting thread in gentoo
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1034212-start-0.html?sid=993fb2e001a9fa1ef011c049aa730f30
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1006032-highlight-vgaarb.html

I can conclude following:
Linux users usually do a profound research about the hardware they are
buying. I don't know how you got this peace of hardware, but it looks like
there are issues with the grafics chip everywhere.
I would advise to ask on the xorg intel driver forum.

regards

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