Hi Steve, It's most likely a debian issue. And to be more precise, a Xorg that may not be up to date. I would advise you to check devuan's Xorg version and check if the firmware of your laptop is talked about on the internet. Ubuntu likely uses a more recent version of Xorg than debian, or any other library that enable discovery of your display.
All in all, a display doesn't seem to have to do anything with init freedom. Would it? Ludovic On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 16:34:25 +0000 Steve Scott via Dng <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all, > I've been a long time Devuan user, and have donated to the > project because I would very much like to see it continue. I recently > was forced to upgrade my laptop, having completely destroyed my old > one, and upon installation (dual boot) of Beowulf 3.1.0 and reboot, > was dropped into a shell prompt, no graphics. LSPCI revealed only 2 > devices were actually identified, the others merely providing > vendor/device ID information, including the NVIDIA gfx device. > dmidecode provided plenty of information however. I was able to > install the driver from the vendor and get CUDA working, but was > never able to get Xorg to recognize the display. > > Since a desktop was pretty critical to my needs for this machine, I > gave Ubuntu a shot - not that I like Ubuntu all that much, but they > do seem to have desktop setup polished well. > > Whadayaknow, Ubuntu pretty much discovered everything, so it appears > I will be living here for the time being. Happy to provide whatever > data you need. SWS
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