eggbladder
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Hello all.
I have been attempting to live boot Linux on this school laptop of mine for a year or two now. I have always ran into issues. I dont have xorg logs from all of them, but i can tell you the symptoms.
Porteus (a slackware distribution built to be portable on flashdrives): if the screen goes to the full resolution before the terminal is hidden and X11 is launched, everything will run fine. If the screen does not change resolutions, xorg will fail multiple times until not failing, and then proceed to work. It will then crash a few minutes later.
Xorg logs are provided below. "doesntboot.txt" is the xorg.0.log where xorg simply does not start up at all. "crasheseventually.txt" is the xorg.0.log that will boot into x11, but will eventually crash (like when i hover over the panel in LXDE, or open up firefox, or change the xrandr resolution.) works completely is where the resolution works completely before the terminal is hidden, and will never unexpectedly crash.
Debian used to either launch in a very low resolution, or in a normal resolution. If the live USB had Steam installed, it would never fully work in a normal resolution and always boot into a low resolution. Steam would also never work. It would not ever crash.
TailsOS would occasionally never boot at all. When it did boot, it worked fine.
here is the laptop model i have been using. "HP ProBook 645 G4 Notebook PC IDS Base Model".
If any other information is required, please let me know.
I have been attempting to live boot Linux on this school laptop of mine for a year or two now. I have always ran into issues. I dont have xorg logs from all of them, but i can tell you the symptoms.
Porteus (a slackware distribution built to be portable on flashdrives): if the screen goes to the full resolution before the terminal is hidden and X11 is launched, everything will run fine. If the screen does not change resolutions, xorg will fail multiple times until not failing, and then proceed to work. It will then crash a few minutes later.
Xorg logs are provided below. "doesntboot.txt" is the xorg.0.log where xorg simply does not start up at all. "crasheseventually.txt" is the xorg.0.log that will boot into x11, but will eventually crash (like when i hover over the panel in LXDE, or open up firefox, or change the xrandr resolution.) works completely is where the resolution works completely before the terminal is hidden, and will never unexpectedly crash.
Debian used to either launch in a very low resolution, or in a normal resolution. If the live USB had Steam installed, it would never fully work in a normal resolution and always boot into a low resolution. Steam would also never work. It would not ever crash.
TailsOS would occasionally never boot at all. When it did boot, it worked fine.
here is the laptop model i have been using. "HP ProBook 645 G4 Notebook PC IDS Base Model".
If any other information is required, please let me know.