So new discovery. If I plug in an external monitor, both displays work perfectly.
Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer On Thu, Mar 4, 2021, 11:19 PM Feral Engineer <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I know I'm going to catch hell for this, but I'm trying to install > lcnc on a laptop... > > Hp probook 645 g2 > Amd processor > Radeon graphics > > Had a hell of a time getting legacy support to even work on this thing. > Finally got Linux installed after 3 and a half hours of head scratching. > Everything boots up properly, terminal works, wicd opens up, I can get apt > updates in terminal, that all works fine. > > What doesn't work is EVERYTHING ELSE. I can't open glxgears - gui freezes, > i can't open thunar - gui freezes, i can't open LCNC - gui freezes, > synaptic - freezes, geany - freezes, you get the idea. > > It was doing it from the live boot session, but i thought it may have been > a fluke, apparently it isn't a fluke. The weird thing is, if I open, for > example, thunar and click somewhere on the desktop, it'll work again, only > to freeze when trying to open a folder, etc, etc. > > While this is happening, ctrl+alt+f1 will give me a login shell and that > all works perfectly. I believe it's a faulty gpu driver but I'm not sure > how to fix it. > > Any suggestions? > > Phil T. > The Feral Engineer > > Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at > www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
