I set up the laptop to dual boot between Windows 11, Linux Mint and Kali Linux. I did all of the setup with an external 4K monitor attached. Everything worked.
When I boot Linux Mint without the external monitor, the screen flashes solid white, black, half screen white, vertical colored lines, alternating. The flashing happens during the boot screen and continues for what should be the login screen. I can't see anything. No user interface visible, but I am able type in my password, hit enter and then the desktop is finally shown correctly. I think it's worth noting that the flashing on the screen becomes synced to my typing. More/extra garbage is displayed with each keystroke. I suspect all of the garbage flashed on the screen reflects an attempt to render the parts of the boot and login screens.
Thank you for any help you can provide. Very much appreciated.
Here's information from inxi:
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System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-56-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.7 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin dm: LightDM 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Convertible System: Dell product: XPS 15 9575 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 31 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 0C32VW v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.24.0
date: 11/13/2022
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 21.4 Wh (80.8%) condition: 26.5/75.0 Wh (35.3%)
volts: 12.5 min: 11.4 model: BYD DELL TMFYT89 type: Li-poly
serial: <filter> status: N/A
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.34 GiB used: 2.44 GiB (15.9%)
Array-1: capacity: 16 GiB slots: 1 EC: None max-module-size: 16 GiB
note: est.
Device-1: Motherboard size: 16 GiB speed: 2400 MT/s type: DDR4
detail: synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) bus-width: 64 bits
total: 64 bits manufacturer: Micron part-no: 4ATS1G64HZ-2G3B1 serial: N/A
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-8705G bits: 64 type: MT MCP
smt: enabled arch: Kaby Lake rev: 9 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
L3: 8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 900 min/max: 800/4100 volts: 1.1 V ext-clock: 100 MHz
cores: 1: 900 2: 900 3: 900 4: 900 5: 900 6: 900 7: 900 8: 900
bogomips: 49599
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel ports:
active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,DP-3 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:591b
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: AMD Polaris 22 XL [Radeon RX Vega M GL] vendor: Dell
driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:694e class-ID: 0380
Device-3: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-1:2 chip-ID: 0bda:58f4 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X:
loaded: amdgpu,ati,modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 144 s-size: 452x254mm (17.8x10.0")
s-diag: 518mm (20.4")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: Sharp res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 189
size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") diag: 395mm (15.5") modes: 3840x2160
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel CM238 HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a171 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-56-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Rivet Networks Killer 1435 Wireless-AC driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel
pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:003e
class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Foxconn / Hon Hai type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-6:3
chip-ID: 0489:e0a2 class-ID: e001
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>
bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.2 sub-v: 25a hci-v: 4.2
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 18.53 GiB (1.0%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB
size: 1.82 TiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 2B2QEXM7 temp: 39.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 186.68 GiB used: 18.5 GiB (9.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 96 MiB used: 34.1 MiB (35.6%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 25.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 43.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Packages: 2217 apt: 2195 flatpak: 18 snap: 4
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com vera main upstream import backport
2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
Processes: 296 Uptime: 17m wakeups: 9 Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5
Compilers: gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11 Shell: Sudo (sudo) v: 1.9.9 default: Bash
v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.13
