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Old 05-22-2018, 01:14 PM   #16
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What video card and driver are you using? Does the modesetting xorg driver work? You should be able to test it with something like.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/modesetting.conf
Code:
Section "Device"
   Identifier  "foo"
   Driver      "modesetting"
EndSection
The 'Identifier' field can be anything.
My /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d dir is empty. But /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d is not.
Here's lspci's output:
Code:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D2xxx/N2xxx Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)
And here's the first line of lsmod | grep "kms\|drm":
Code:
drm_kms_helper     147456      1       gma500_gfx
 
Old 05-22-2018, 01:21 PM   #17
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reading a little online seems like our graphic hardware is not very well supported...

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2143769
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=253942
 
Old 05-22-2018, 01:27 PM   #18
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can you paste your /var/log/Xorg.0.log somewhere like http://pastebin.com and post here the resulting link to the paste?
the output of lspci might be useful too...
Here's the output: http://termbin.com/tkkw.
 
Old 05-22-2018, 01:30 PM   #19
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reading a little online seems like our graphic hardware is not very well supported...

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2143769
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=253942
Yes, indeed. They were never good. HW accel never worked for me properly.
 
Old 05-22-2018, 01:47 PM   #20
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from the log it seems it doesn't find any suitable driver for your hardware (after having tried them all): it can be that support for your hardware just isn't there anymore with the newer X.org 1.20.
if your hardware was working with the drivers shipped with X.org of 14.2 maybe the best option for you is to stick with it.

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Old 05-22-2018, 01:58 PM   #21
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Given this is intel I would suggest trying modesetting again. I don't think intel puts much work in their xf86-video-intel anymore and it has suffered bitrot. You probably can just removepkg xf86-video-intel for it to fallback to modesetting.

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My /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d dir is empty. But /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d is not.
You shouldn't manually touch /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d, but it is fine to add files to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d.
 
Old 05-22-2018, 02:08 PM   #22
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Given this is intel
unfortunately this hardware it's not supported by intel on Linux: have a look at the topics I linked above.
I actually had this hardware too on a netbook years ago...

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Old 05-22-2018, 02:12 PM   #23
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Ah, thanks! So if I understand correctly its an intel chip made by a third party?

It may still be worth trying the modesetting ddx.
 
Old 05-22-2018, 06:28 PM   #24
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1. I tried to post this too, but thought it would be irrelevant: CapsLock doesn't change the state.
Locked up

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2. Ctrl+Alt+Bkspc gives nothing.
Locked up

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3. I have an intel chip.
So do I: Intel makes dozens of chips.

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5. Yes. Capital letters work.
Then you've inadvertently switched to the alternate character set.
 
Old 05-22-2018, 09:43 PM   #25
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from the log it seems it doesn't find any suitable driver for your hardware (after having tried them all): it can be that support for your hardware just isn't there anymore with the newer X.org 1.20.
if your hardware was working with the drivers shipped with X.org of 14.2 maybe the best option for you is to stick with it.
Thanks, Matt. This seems to be the only solution. Does this mean my hw won't be supported in the future releases?
 
  


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