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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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