I am not using Endeavour OS on my newer computer. Because when I try and use the latest ISO right after I install it, after the grub menu I just get a black screen.
This is a confusing statement? Are you going to install something else or you are going to try reinstall EndeavourOS from the latest ISO?
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I am installing something else. Because I tried reinstalling Endeavour OS a few times, and the black screen thing happens. However I want to use EndeavourOS on my newer computer so I am trying to figure out what the problem is. Hence I am here…does that make sense? I think it is the kernel because even with my non-Endeavour distro, when I update the system with pacman -Syu I get the same black screen after I reboot. The only way I do not get that problem is when I downgrade the kernel.
Trying to figure it out by using or installing something else isn’t going to help you. What is it that you are using?
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It’s a Japanese distro called Alter Linux. It was one of the first linux desktop environments I used. I can’t use EndeavourOS because I just get the black screen. Do you have any suggestions as to how to use EndeavourOS without getting the black screen? Should i try and figure out the problem within the live environment of Endeavour?
You keep saying you can’t use EndeavourOS because you just get a black screen but yet you don’t have it installed and how do you suppose you are going to figure it out by not working within the installed system? If you install EndeavourOS with the latest ISO it will have all the latest updated software and the newest kernel which is the 5.12.2 and ALL the latest packages. Then you see what happens and go from there. This is a rolling release distro that is close to Arch.
Edit: You are dealing with hardware issues or it could be related to software?
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Yes you could use the live ISO and chroot into the system and update it and try to figure it out.
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Okay, I will try and reinstall it now. If I install EndeavourOS with the latest ISO I just get hte black screen literally right after I install it and reboot my computer. Right after the grub menu I get a black screen. I tried reinstalling Endeavour yesterday and the day before with new ISO but same result. I am downloading the ISO right now from alpix germany. Then I will install it onto the newer computer. If I get the black screen again do you have any suggestions as to how to proceed next?
Okay I’ll do that. I’ll try and use the live ISO then try the Nvidia stuff from before. Do you think that’ll help?
Maybe you can start there and then get the hardware info first from the live ISO.
inxi -Fxxxz —no-host
If you post the output make sure it is encapsulated with code tags by using ~~~ before and after what you post so it looks like this.
[ricklinux@eos-kde ~]$ inxi
CPU: 8-Core AMD Ryzen 7 3800X (-MT MCP-) speed/min/max: 3527/2200/3900 MHz Kernel: 5.12.2-arch1-1 x86_64 Up: 32m
Mem: 1992.5/32087.9 MiB (6.2%) Storage: 5 TiB (0.3% used) Procs: 308 Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.03
[ricklinux@eos-kde ~]$
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Okay, will do. Thanks and the code tags are this right? ‘’’
I use the tilde ~~~
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okay thanks. I’m installing now. If there is a black screen I will go into the live ISO and inxi.
I haven’t tried Alter Linux so i don’t know much about it.
I see. Just a japanese distro that automatically lets you type in Japanese and arch based. It uses linux-zen I think as a kernel.
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If it boots to a black screen then try ctrl alt F2 and it should go to a TTY screen where you can log in as root with your password.
Here is the inxi -Fxxxz --no-host:
System: Kernel: 5.11.14-arch1-1 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0
tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 vt: 1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP ProBook 450 G7 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis:
type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: HP model: 86A0 v: KBC Version 02.2F.00 serial: <filter> UEFI: HP
v: S71 Ver. 01.07.02 date: 10/29/2020
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 32.5 Wh (76.7%) condition: 42.4/45.0 Wh (94.1%) volts: 11.8
min: 11.4 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: Discharging cycles: 99
CPU: Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-10510U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake
note: check rev: C cache: L2: 8 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 36812
Speed: 2425 MHz min/max: 400/4900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2425 2: 2252 3: 2986
4: 3099 5: 2142 6: 2400 7: 2410 8: 3113
Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9b41 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nouveau
v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1d13 class-ID: 0302
Device-3: Quanta HP HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-2:3
chip-ID: 0408:5373 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: server: X.org 1.20.11 compositor: xcompmgr driver: loaded: intel,modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa alternate: nouveau,nv resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio: Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: sof-audio-pci
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:02c8 class-ID: 0401
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.11.14-arch1-1 running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.25 running: no
Network: Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 5000
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:02f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.15 TiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLQ256HAJD-000H1 size: 238.47 GiB
speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: HPS4NFXV temp: 30.9 C
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MQ04ABF100 size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 7C scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB model: General size: 3.75 GiB serial: <filter> rev: 5.00
scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / size: 10 GiB used: 592 KiB (0.0%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102
Swap: Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: 43.0 C gpu: nouveau temp: 43.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 251 Uptime: 2m wakeups: 1 Memory: 7.55 GiB used: 1.01 GiB (13.4%)
Init: systemd v: 248 target: multi-user.target Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages:
pacman: 896 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.03
Right after install the screen went blank again when I rebooted the computer. So this is from the live ISO.
That’s better! I was just about say i was going to do that.
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hehe. thanks…the tilde thing right?
Okay… So right now it’s running on Intel & Nouveau even though you have a black screen on boot. Are you able to boot to the black screen and then ctrl alt F2 to get into a TTY and log in as root with password?
Edit: See
Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9b41 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nouveau
v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1d13 class-ID: 0302
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