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.

-- 
Felmon Davis

Verbum sat sapienti.