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Kernel modesetting messing up my installs
Hi all,
I've poured over many things online and FAQs. I've found many helpful hints about this, but nothing that solved it totally. Please help if you can.
My media server recently bit the dust (a SFF core i5 machine, cpu died). I'm trying a new install on a spare NUC clone (Gigabyte Brix i3 - skylake gen) so I have something to temporarily use until I can afford to replace it full-time. Any linux install I boot, and I've tried several, get messed up with the automatic kernel modesetting. The font is tiny and about 1 - 1.5 " is chopped off on the left margin.
I have tried nomodeset and i915.modeset=0. Using either or both fixes the font problem. I can also try to manually set the font to something larger. But the remaining problem is the 1.5ish inch blacked out on the left. It's not that it's indented. It's just black. It's like the words are there, but they're behind a black bar or margin covering them. Because of this, trying to configure initial networking is a pain. If I could limp my way through networking, I could get ssh up and running and finish installing and configuring from there.
Thanks,
wackman
PS: I'm not sure if this matters, but I'm using a 43" 4k TV as a monitor to install with. It will end up being headless, but for the live install, that's what I'm using. I'm thinking the graphics is probing the TV, seeing it's 4k and throwing the modesetting and font settings to where they are. Like I said, I can fix the font/resolution, but it's that stupid black margin.
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