Sun, 1 Sep 2024 22:35:58 -0500 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@gmail.com> :
On 9/1/24 8:43 PM, bent fender wrote:
If I remove noaccel=1 then I do get the WM but no GUI after log-in, just a solirary mouse arrow jumping about in the darknes.
There is something amiss beyond your basic driver issue. I can only speculate. Is there any chance you have on-board video on your motherboard that could have gotten enabled by default when your AMD card was removed? (or some other oddness causing the video system to fight over who is in charge?)
If I remove nomodeset I get what removing 3 does.
With the above contorsions at least I get a GUI that I can use as long as I'm not the usual user and as long as I don't want internet.
That is the best SECURITY FEATURE -- no chance of malware from a remote host :)
I'd take a trip though the bios settings just to make sure there isn't anything funny that got flipped. It also wouldn't hurt to post the output of:
# dmidecode
you mean like in a rescue shell? I think maybe I should TS this using only the install DVD with no drives plugged-in until I see a proper display; whatever that coughs up is likely to be the cause affecting the installed partition as well.
You can save the output to a file with:
# dmidecode > /tmp/dmidecode.txt
and then upload /tmp/dmidecode.txt
Also you have sddm for the display manager, what desktops do you have installed? Just KDE?
What plymouth rpms are installed:
$ rpm -qa | grep plymouth | sort
What does
$ cat /proc/cmdline
show?
That will add some additional information to the mix. Also double check the modules:
$ lsmod | grep "nvidia\|nouveau"
We will go from there.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
I don't know how many times I've reset BIOS to defaults, I'll look at these tonight. Just spent 2 hours trying to get the Live DVD going but it seems to have a DVD read error although the cretaion included verification at every step! The check-media module requires a graphical screen for some reason but the screen just goes black. I couldn't get the install DVD going either without ending up with a corrupt screen. Ran out of time!