@Lord Boltar , the OP's inxi -G output was already included from inxi -Fxzd command output displayed in #10 on page 1.
It reads
Graphics: Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics vendor: Gigabyte driver: N/A bus-ID: 00:02.0 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: vesa unloaded: fbdev,modesetting gpu: N/A resolution: 1280x1024 OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 13.0.1 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 22.0.5 direct render: Yes
G'day
@redwhiteandblue and welcome to linux.org, or is it a nightmare?
So much help suggested. Maybe getting hard to answer all questions, or to keep track of them.
I note that you did not answer
@osprey at #14 on page 1, where he asked for output of
Code:
dmesg | grep -i microcode
dmesg | grep -i firmware
If you can see your way clear to provide that, that would be good.
@osprey you also said
so you need xserver-xorg-video-intel installed, and the firmware from the package: firmware-misc-nonfree, (or whatever the equivalent package is in mint).
Mint does not have that package in the repos, it has
firmware-sof-signed:
firmware-b43-installer:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:019-7build2
firmware-misc-nonfree:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
firmware-microbit-micropython:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.0.1-2
Version table:
1.0.1-2 500
firmware-ast:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 20140808-4
Version table:
20140808-4 500
firmware-b43legacy-installer:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:019-7build2
Version table:
1:019-7build2 500
firmware-microbit-micropython-doc:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.0.1-2
Version table:
1.0.1-2 500
firmware-ath9k-htc:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.4.0-106-gc583009+dfsg1-1ubuntu1
Version table:
1.4.0-106-gc583009+dfsg1-1ubuntu1 500
firmware-tomu:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.0~rc7-2
Version table:
2.0~rc7-2 500
...but you can see there that firmware-misc-nonfree
is referenced there. We can likely get it at pkgs.org if you think it is required.
@redwhiteandblue - you said you
think you are back on Vera MATE. Two easy ways of checking, and you could let us know -
1. If you have an icon for Home on your Desktop, right-click it. If it offers an option to rename (not greyed out) you are on MATE.
2. Press your Start icon bottom left, if it offers a choice for Control Center, you are on MATE.
I also think maybe you did not get the context of what
@osprey asked here, at #37 on page 2:
redwhiteandblue wrote:
Can I get to the CLI before the desktop loads, is there a way to do that?
To boot to a text prompt you press e when the grub menu appears. It brings up a configuration text, so you navigate down to the linux line (using arrow keys if it's not on screen), add 3 after a space to that linux line and press cntl+x to boot. It should boot to a prompt.
When, in your Grub Menu, you have your Linux Mint line highlighted, and you press 'e', you should get output that looks a little like mine. Several lines down is a line that begins with
linux
Mine looks as follows
linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-60-generic root=UUID=db09665e-ed5c-4fa5-bd13-e4b263effa5d ro noquiet nosplash
Yours may have
quiet splash
at the end.
What
@osprey was asking for was for you to arrow down to that line and place a 3 at the end, so mine would look like
linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-60-generic root=UUID=db09665e-ed5c-4fa5-bd13-e4b263effa5d ro noquiet nosplash 3
then Ctrl-x or could be F10, to boot.
That will boot you to a prompt. The change only lasts for that current boot, and once you reboot, it reverts to the usual.
Finally (yay, they cry)
If it is still considered possibly a graphics issue, I have Linux Mint 21.1 'Vera' MATE in my stable (I run 84 Linux distros) and I have been using it to check options with nomodeset, and with xrandr to change the graphics config. You can let me know if you want to try those options.
Cheers
Chris Turner
wizardfromoz