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Hi, first post here… A quick gidday and a question about a problem I can’t find a solution to so far.

I’m trying to run AntiX on my laptop and pretty sure it’s booting but still have a black screen. I have tested Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and the 20.10 Groovy Gorilla flavor, and have the same problem but it’s resolved with an edit of the grub at boot with the nomodeset instead of quiet splash on the /vmlinuz line. These distros aren’t very happy on my laptop for some reason, kernel panics and non-responding processes etc, and I like the really lite feel of AntiX and would like to try to get that running. Also systemd could be part of the issue and running AntiX would take that out of the picture for me.

I am having trouble with the the edit of “linux/antiX/vmlinuz quiet splasht disable=1xF menus”.

So far I have tried the following to boot into a live USB so I can install Antix…
linux/antiX/vmlinuz quiet menus
linux/antiX/vmlinuz menus
linux/antiX/vmlinuz nomodeset menus

The laptop is a Dell G5 5505 with an AMD Ryzen7 4800H / Raedon RX 2.9GHz, and using rufus 3.4 to cut my .iso on to the USB.
Does anyone know how AntiX wants to see nomodeset in this line or have another suggestion why I might have a black screen?

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Howdy back, atcha.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/gaming-laptops/g5-15-se-gaming-laptop/spd/g-series-15-5505-laptop/gn5505dyiqs

My uneducated guess. You need a newer kernel for newer gear to get video. Maybe the vesa or fb driver may get you by.
I can’t say. Your Ubuntu reference makes me think this.

I’d ask for live boot and see if you get a screen.
If that works.
Post the output of

inxi -Fx -r

Here is mine as a example

harry@biker:~
$ inxi -Fx -r
System:
  Host: biker Kernel: 4.9.193-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 2.3.4 
  Distro: antiX-19_x64-full Marielle Franco 16 October 2019 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 2347DS2 v: ThinkPad T430 
  serial: <root required> 
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 2347DS2 serial: <root required> UEFI [Legacy]: LENOVO 
  v: G1ET41WW (1.16 ) date: 05/25/2012 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 12.3 Wh condition: 12.3/56.2 Wh (22%) 
  model: SANYO 45N1001 status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3320M bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 20751 
  Speed: 2609 MHz min/max: 1200/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2609 2: 2885 
  3: 2980 4: 1712 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Lenovo 
  driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1600x900~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile v: 4.2 Mesa 18.3.6 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.193-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e 
  v: 3.2.6-k port: 5080 bus ID: 00:19.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:21:cc:d0:5f:88 
  Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi 
  v: kernel port: efa0 bus ID: 03:00.0 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 60:67:20:95:09:dc 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 52.71 GiB (11.3%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST500LT012-1DG142 size: 465.76 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 19.10 GiB used: 5.35 GiB (28.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
  ID-2: /home size: 433.48 GiB used: 47.36 GiB (10.9%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 4.82 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3631 
Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/antix/buster/ buster main nonfree nosystemd
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-backports main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://mirror.us.oneandone.net/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://mirror.us.oneandone.net/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/insync.list 
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jitsi-stable.list 
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teams.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams/ stable main
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:
  Processes: 173 Uptime: 4h 19m Memory: 15.47 GiB used: 796.8 MiB (5.0%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
  inxi: 3.0.36 
harry@biker:~

I run Micro Soft Teams on here because of my wife and her default job stuff.
Maybe this page will help to get you to a running live desktop session.

https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Boot_Parameters

https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

Good luck.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by rokytnji.

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Forgot to mention. Have you tried messing with F key button selection on the live boot screen yet?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=antix+linux+f+key+f8untions

I forgot which video shows how they work.

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