02-16-2018, 11:11 AM
Thanks for the ideas/suggestions! Here's where I am now.
Figured out how to get out of the black screen. Two options work.
1. Reboot, then amend with "nomodeset." This gets me a nice centered, 640x480 display that cannot be expanded to 1024x768. It also goes away when I shut down and reboot - back to the black screen. However, I was able to access the xfconf file and reverse the changes I made earlier through Settings Editor. Not really sure if any of that was actually causing problems. Sometimes it boots to a black screen, sometimes it boots to a partial screen - 640x768 ... in upper left corner.
2.The second option is the reboot and select recovery which puts me exactly where I want to be ... 1024 display and the options to select 800 or 640 screen display. I think maybe recovery is booting me into a "live" version of the program??
I know this partial screen issue has been earlier identified with this model 1100 with the Intel 845 graphics. I found web search references with several "resolved" solutions - none of which worked for me.
update bios. Already current
update Intel microcode. Done - no efffect
i845.modeset=0 Done - no effect
xforcevesa Done - no effect
So ... how do I change this install to retain the boot setting which take effect when I boot through the recovery option??? That will fix this problem.
Please excuse my ignorance of commands/terminology. My understanding of Linux is basically limited to a personal opinion that I really like it, and would like to use it on this old machine!
Thanks again!
Figured out how to get out of the black screen. Two options work.
1. Reboot, then amend with "nomodeset." This gets me a nice centered, 640x480 display that cannot be expanded to 1024x768. It also goes away when I shut down and reboot - back to the black screen. However, I was able to access the xfconf file and reverse the changes I made earlier through Settings Editor. Not really sure if any of that was actually causing problems. Sometimes it boots to a black screen, sometimes it boots to a partial screen - 640x768 ... in upper left corner.
2.The second option is the reboot and select recovery which puts me exactly where I want to be ... 1024 display and the options to select 800 or 640 screen display. I think maybe recovery is booting me into a "live" version of the program??
I know this partial screen issue has been earlier identified with this model 1100 with the Intel 845 graphics. I found web search references with several "resolved" solutions - none of which worked for me.
update bios. Already current
update Intel microcode. Done - no efffect
i845.modeset=0 Done - no effect
xforcevesa Done - no effect
So ... how do I change this install to retain the boot setting which take effect when I boot through the recovery option??? That will fix this problem.
Please excuse my ignorance of commands/terminology. My understanding of Linux is basically limited to a personal opinion that I really like it, and would like to use it on this old machine!
Thanks again!