Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> writes: > On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 08:20:21AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: >> As your non-root user, write a .xinitrc: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> xterm & >> exec mate-session >> >> and then run >> >> startx >> >> Tell us what happens then. If it crashes, let us see your >> /etc/apt/sources.list and anything in sources.list.d/ > > In addition to this: > > 1) Identify your video hardware. Use "lspci -nn" for this.
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] [10de:0110] (rev b2) > > 2) Check for any missing firmware. Use "dmesg | grep -i firmware" for > this. > No output.