Stefan Monnier wrote on 1/27/20 4:06 PM: >> anything at all, then, after a very long time, I see the stream of Linux text >> messages that indicates booting, but I never see a graphical login screen. >> (The delay before the messages appear is far longer than a normal boot cycle >> -- indeed, I had given up waiting for something to happen and was pondering >> my >> next move when suddenly the messages started flying by). > > This sounds like your BIOS doesn't know how (or try) to use your > graphics card, so all the BIOS output goes to the other display > connector (the one of the built-in graphics adapter). So the BIOS's own > boot messages, the GRUB boot messages, and the early kernel messages all > go "unseen" and it's only once the Linux kernel loads your display > driver (to get a framebuffer) that finally you start seeing output. > >> This sounds like perhaps a driver issue of some kind, so what packages >> do I need to be sure are > > No, it looks like it's fine on Linux's side. The problem is the earlier > boot environment (the one from which Linux is started). > > So the fix will need to be somewhere between your BIOS and your video card. > Maybe all it takes is to tell your BIOS to use your external graphics > card instead of (or additionally to) the built-in video adapter.
That certainly sounds plausible, but I don't see anything in the AMI BIOS that mentions video at all. Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans
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