Hi there,
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Originally Posted by chandos
I am new to Linux, but I've made some progress.
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so welcome to a fascinating new world. Yea, coming from Windows, the learning curve may be steep at times, but I think it's rewarding.
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Originally Posted by chandos
I have been able to create bootable Linux-mint OS on a flash drive, a dvd and an external SSD. Every one of them works fine on my laptop and my friend's desktop. They won't boot to my desktop (except in compatibility mode). It could be because my desktop has a disabled (in WIN7) on-board video chip and Linux is trying to use it.
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Yes, I think that's the gist. If you disabled your onboard video in Windows device manager, that's a setting in Windows only. Another operating system doesn't know anything about this. And Mint, like Ubuntu, configures itself dynamically at boot time scanning the available hardware. In that process, it will use the first video adapter it finds.
So I can see two ways out of that dilemma - a quick & dirty one, and one that makes sense.
Quick & dirty would be to simply plug your monitor into the onboard video adapter.
But since I assume you're using an add-on video adapter for some reason, you will want to keep using it. So the better approach would be to go into the BIOS setup and disable the onboard VGA adapter there. Then Mint shouldn't recognize it any more and go on to the next one available, which should be the add-on card you're using normally.
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Originally Posted by chandos
In another forum, it was suggested that a use a Linux-mint cheat code such as radeon.modeset=0 Does anyone know HOW to use this code? Where does it go? I assume it goes in the boot file somewhere.
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I don't know either, but even so, it wouldn't get you any further with your current setup. The suggested instruction (assuming I understand it correctly) should prevent Linux from switching video modes at boot time. But that would be pointless because at boot time, your onboard video is the active and primary adapter. So with your current setup, the OS HAS TO switch video adapters and modes during boot.
So the only reasonable thing is to disable the internal video, and to do that at system (BIOS) level, not through Windows.
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