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.