Re Ecne and GeForce GT 720 dual monitor failure
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Two questions
1. I have reinstalled Trisquel 11 and now have two OSes that properly display in my dual monitor set up:
an HDMI screen in front of me and a smaller to the left, VGA screen.
Several OSes disconnect the HDMI before they reach the login screen. Ecne was one, andyprough's deblobbed Debian 13 another and BesGNULinux behaved the same. By disconnected I mean the HDMI monitor itself announces it is going to sleep as it isn't connected to anything and the OS doesn't see it in Preferences > Monitor Settings either.
Debian 12 Bookworm and Trisquel 12 both are fine.
I know that Debian 12 may load nonfree firmware upon install and I assume that Trisquel 12 does not, but they both work.
Now, after Aramo updates I am running an old kernel I guess - I'm kind of afraid to change that because I tried several of the freesh kernels with Ecne but still failed to have the HDMI monitor. I think I went back as far as a 5.6 kernel but didn't write it down and so am not sure.
uname -a
Linux trismy 5.15.0-107-generic #117+11.0trisquel29 SMP Sat May 18 02:49:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Avron responded to an earlier post and my lshw is identical to his except irq is 32 and resolution is 1920 X 1080. He mentions also not having 'xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-hwe-18.04' installed - nor do I. Also he said "The kernel is 6.8.0-65 as I have linux-generic-hwe-11.0 installed. I also have systemd-hwe-hwdb installed." Synaptic doesn't show me either of those 'hwe'
What could be different between Aramo and Ecne? Installer? Kernel? And anyway to fix?
2. (second question) Is this laptop, Lenovo Thinkpad T480s with I5-8250U and Intell UHD 620 a good bet to work with Ecne. It also has HDMI and Direct ports and might take the place of this older PC.
Where's the edit button?
'Debian 12 Bookworm and Trisquel 12 both are fine.' That's wrong, Trisquel 12 is not fine, I should have said Trisquel 11.
Now I see an edit button.
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Where's the edit button?
You can't edit the first message of a discuss thread. If you made a mistake there, the only way is to reply to your own message. Then, you can edit that reply until someone else has replied to it.
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Recently, on one laptop, Xorg was working fine with Trisquel but crashing rather quickly with Parabola. I compared /var/log/Xorg.log.0 from both and saw that Parabola wasn't loading the same drivers, so I modified my configuration and could make Xorg work find on Parabola.
Did you try booting a live ISO of Ecne and see if you can have your two screens as expected? If not, you could save Xorg.log.0 from there and compare it with the one obtained on armao (that you should save before) when your screens work as expected. I gess you could also save the ouput of dmesg in both cases to compare (probably more info, but not sure how useful).
Another idea is to try the same after installing linux-generic-hwe-11.0 (which will give a newer kernel), or linux-libre from the freesh repository. I am not an expert at all on these things, I was just lucky enough to sometimes identify the origin problem by checking differences in logs between the situation where what you want works, and the situation where it does not.
I don't remember, it may have been that Ecne Live did work as expected but changed on install. I'll download and burn the latest version and if it is cool with two monitors, I'll look at and save logs to a usb. Will post back if Live boot of Ecne does in fact work for my setup.
I'm happy now that I have Aramo-mini back (it's so peaceful, great desktop), it's been gone for a while due to an error on my part.
Re the second question: Aramo Live boots up on the T480s after disabling Secure Boot. Not sure how grub will be handled yet. This laptop came with fresh a install of Evil Empire 11 Pro and I want to study that some. EE 11's partition has been shrunk and that's as far as I've gone now. I think I saw youtube postings about installing different versions of open source BIOS for this laptop so maybe later I can go that far as I've never done that yet. Open source, ME mitigated BIOS and Trisquel would be very exciting for me.