Screen Black if nomodeset is not in place during boot

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shambles888

Screen Black if nomodeset is not in place during boot

Post by shambles888 »

Hi All,

I have tried multiple solutions in google and other forums as well as in linux chat support and no one works.

Tried different Linux OS such as Ubuntu, Kali and now Mint. All same issue.

Issue: Screen flickers even in live boot and installed one.
Right now I have installed Kali Mint 18 Cinnamon.

The only solution I can login to Mint machine is using nomodeset, If i wont use it then I can only see flickering on boot then black screen on login.

Please see below infos, hope someone can help me here.

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inxi -Gx
Graphics:  Card: Intel Sky Lake Integrated Graphics bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: fbdev,intel (unloaded: vesa) Resolution: 1024x768@76.00hz
           GLX Renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 5.0, 256 bits) GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.3.1 Direct Rendering: Yes

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           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.6 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3)
           Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Machine:   System: HP (portable) product: HP ProBook 440 G3
           Mobo: HP model: 8100 v: KBC Version 40.71
           Bios: HP v: N78 Ver. 01.22 date: 12/06/2017
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i5-6200U (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 9600
           clock speeds: max: 2800 MHz 1: 2566 MHz 2: 2799 MHz 3: 2782 MHz
           4: 2799 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Sky Lake Integrated Graphics bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: fbdev,intel (unloaded: vesa)
           Resolution: 1024x768@76.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 4.0, 256 bits)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.0-38-generic
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 3000 bus-ID: 01:00.0
           IF: enp1s0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
           driver: rtl8723be port: 4000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 504.0GB (1.1% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_MQ01ACF0 size: 500.1GB temp: 38C
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: DT_101_G2 size: 3.9GB temp: 0C
Partition: ID-1: swap-1 size: 3.68GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda9
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0C mobo: 0.0C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 198 Uptime: 1 min Memory: 598.8/3844.7MB
           Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35 

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sudo lshw -C video
  *-display UNCLAIMED     
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Sky Lake Integrated Graphics
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 07
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:f0000000-f0ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:5000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
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shambles888

Re: Screen Black if nomodeset is not in place during boot

Post by shambles888 »

Tried the ff. and it does not work.
If your Intel GPU is recent enough (2007 or newer) it is recommended to remove the legacy Intel driver "xserver-xorg-video-intel" and to use the built-in modesetting driver instead:

apt remove xserver-xorg-video-intel
sudo reboot
nouveau.noaccel=1 (instead of nomodeset)
noapic noacpi nosplash irqpoll (instead of quiet splash)
shambles888

Re: Screen Black if nomodeset is not in place during boot

Post by shambles888 »

Upgraded my kernel to latest 4.18 and now its dead. I can see login gui but when I try to login the screen flicks and goes back to login screen and try to login again and goes back to login screen again, technically its dead. :(

Tried Kali, Ubuntu, Mint and now Elementary OS, all are flickering screen and after that black screen afterwards. :(
michael louwe

Re: Screen Black if nomodeset is not in place during boot

Post by michael louwe »

@ shambles888, .......
shambles888 wrote:...
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Try the fix at this link ... viewtopic.php?t=250485
shambles888

Re: Screen Black if nomodeset is not in place during boot

Post by shambles888 »

Elementary OS solves this, I installed new one and edit the grub inputting the nomodeset and update it.
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