Anno domini 17:36:40 Thu, 16 Jul 2020 +0200 (CEST)
 Felmon Davis scripsit:
> 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.
> 
> 

I'm a bit late to the party now :)
Ify can, stay away from systemd. i.e. MX is nice, IMO you can install TDE on it, too. And Devuan of course :)

Nik






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