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Re: [LUG] HDMI Woes again

 

Cool, thanks for clearing that up... so all we need here is a very cheap PCI-E graphics card. Is that what you're suggesting?

something like this for example..

http://www.ebuyer.com/806221-asus-geforce-gt-710-graphics-card-gt710-sl-1gd5

On 26 September 2017 at 17:51, mr meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 26/09/17 07:33, Daniel Robinson wrote:
> "Specifically in your case, I'd try a different and more bleeding edge
> distribution - not just the latest Ubuntu. You're quite likely going to
> need to boot with a modified kernel stanza via grub as well I think for
> kernel mode setting."
>
> What is so vastly different with his CPU that you'd need to do so much
> monkey business to get it to work with Linux?

Nothing - it's the integrated GPU that's the problem. It's very common
to have to coax some display hardware into life by manually passing KMS,
i915=0 or blacklist parameters to the kernel via Grub. Not helped by
Ubuntu's relatively slow uptake of newer kernels (as compared to SuSE,
Fedora, Arch, etc) and equally slow adoption of the newer mesa and Xorg
stacks which come with explicit support for newer configurations.

I've got an old school pre-Lenovo ThinkPad, an Atom netbook, a modifed
Chromebook and a MacBook within arms reach that all need modified boot
stanzas to work properly under X with Linux. On the plus side, they do
all now actually work after some initial hair-pulling not dissimilar to
Richard's current problems - black screens mostly.

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You know the deal by now - Linux is great, but it's a pain in the arse
to get it to work right sometimes...

Cheers
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