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.


-- 
Felmon Davis

Verbum sat sapienti.