On 2/17/25 9:08 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
The problem continues after the install as well. Having to set nomodeset as
the kernel parameter to get the iso to work, also means I've had to set
nomodeset to get the installed system to boot that kills any hope of starting
the graphics system.
This is apparently an issue with the i915 9.5 Gen integrated video on the
i5 8500 processor. Unless I append "nomodeset" the boot hangs after
"triggering uevents..."
I've opened a forum thread with all the included details of inxi and lspci
and the only dmesg output that looks tangentially relevant at:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=303506
If you have any info on how to get X working on the i5 processor with the
9.5 Gen integrated graphics, I need your help. I've searched online, and
followed the install and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_graphics wiki,
but so far, I'm not finding a solution.
Has anyone else faced issues with this hardware? If so, how to solve it?
The whole bloody mess was caused by the secure-boot bios setting:
"legacy boot enabled, secure boot disabled"
This breaks the Arch install iso for this BIOS. There are only 3-choices in
the BIOS secure-boot select drop down:
* legacy boot disabled, secure boot enabled
* legacy boot enabled, secure boot disabled
* legacy boot disabled, secure boot disabled
I chose 2 so worst case I could do a MBR install.
This causes the iso to hang immediately after "triggering uevents...". The
screen blanks, the backlight is turned on, and the system hangs with a
blank-screen with backlight-on. Ctrl+Alt+Del is required to reboot and fix.
The suggested "nomodeset" did allow the install to work, even with this
choice, but you are stuck with nomodeset, no X, backlight permanently on and
no acpi and no way to enable console-blanking with setterm.
What is mandatory so the Arch install iso will boot is to choose the BIOS
option:
* legacy boot disabled, secure boot disabled
Nowhere in the Install-Guide or Intel-Graphics wiki is this ever mentioned.
All that is mentioned is to "disable secure boot" -- which was done. Nowhere
on the whole internet does it say you must choose "legacy boot disabled,
secure boot disabled" for Linux install on the HP ProOne 600 -- for any
distro. (I guess I'm just lucky with this one...)
This needs to be clearly noted in the Install-Guide and the Intel-Graphics
wiki. I'd be happy to add it, but all my edits for the past 5 years (including
yesterday) have been summarily reverted. (all my edits for a decade before
that were accepted, strange?)
I'll leave it to the Arch powers-that-be to add this. This information as it
is critical for the Arch install and intel graphics wiki for this BIOS and i5
9.5 Gen processors. The "nomodeset" and "i915.nomodeset=0" suggestions on the
Xorg config wiki page are red-herrings here (they are useful in their own
right, but not for this problem)
I can't help wondering that someone else also took the time to add this note
to the install or intel wiki pages and had their contribution also reverted.
(or thought about adding it, but then chose not to based on their past
experience with prior changes being reverted). It is this chilling-effect
reverting all contribution has. That behavior really destroys the entire point
of having a "community wiki". I like to help and am capable of contributing to
the wiki, but there is not much point anymore.
So please, whoever makes this happen now, make sure this gets added so someone
other Archer doesn't waste 14-hours trying to solve the same elusive issue again.
Well, interesting problem, on to finishing the install and configuration now.
Gotta love UEFI and all the BIOS variations that surround it...
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
