On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 19:00:03 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Frank Miles wrote:
>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>> > Frank Miles wrote:
>> > > but if I switched out of X to a terminal (Alt-Ctrl-Fn) the system
>> > > would crash. In addition, shutdown would only start, then it would
>> > > crash
>> >
>> > What graphics card do you have there?
>>
>> There is no graphics card - the CPU does the graphics.
>
> But if you didn't have a graphics adapter then you wouldn't have
> anything to plug the cable to the monitor into! :-) Almost certainly
> you are using the onboard one. In this case most likely the Intel
> integrated graphics controller.
>
> lspci
> lspci | grep VGA
>
> You should see some type of graphics controller listed. Probably an
> Integrated controller. Being integrated onboard it still resides on the
> bus.
Yes, of course. I guess I took your question about a 'card' too literally.
lspci -> VGA compatible controller: Intel corporation Haswell integrated
graphics controller (rev 06)
>> Yes, I installed the nonfree firmware excepting a whole lot intended
>> for wifi devices that aren't in my system.
>
> I would then check 'dmesg' for any errors. In particular I would look
> at the KMS (kernel mode setting) parts. In recent Linux kernels they
> have made massive changes to the console. It is possible, perhaps even
> likely, that the problem is KMS related.
Other than an ACPI 'namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (which occurred
in the past - if I try to boot without the rescue disk it doesn't leave
anything new in the logs). This makes me suspect a disk-related problem
(for the boot issue, not the video mode-switch), but how or why?? I haven't
seen anything explicit regarding KMS, but I may have missed it - will look
further.
> Other than this I have no ideas. Hopefully someone else will have a
> better suggestion.
>
> Bob
Thanks for trying! I hope so too.
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