Debian has a reputation for rock-solid reliability, the older Mageia worked, so my hardware apparently does not require cutting edge software drivers, and I got Debian to boot to command-line, so Debian seems like my best option to try to get this working. Booting to Cinnamon desktop hard hangs the system to a black screen. Last message I can read is about Network Manager, then a line that goes by too fast to read before black screen. There is no blinking cursor on the black screen.
I got Debian live usb to boot to command line by editing grub to set runlevel 3, but I'm not an expert at debugging graphics, so I'm looking for help with what to do to find the right driver, etc. I have seen other reports of people who have Linux working on my specific model, but I don't know if they have exactly the same hardware.
Here is my hardware info output by inxi -Fxxxza --no-host:
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System: Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Console: N/A dm: N/A
Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine: Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 17-by1xxx v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10
serial: <filter>
Mobo: HP model: 8530 v: 17.21 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.47 date: 09/05/2019
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 41.9 Wh condition: 41.9/41.9 Wh (100%) volts: 12.8/11.3 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary
type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8265U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 8E (142)
stepping: C (12) microcode: B8 L2 cache: 6144 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 28800
Speed: 654 MHz min/max: 400/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 600 2: 600 3: 600 4: 600 5: 600 6: 600 7: 600 8: 601
Vulnerabilities: Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling
Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3ea0
Display: server: X.org 1.20.4 driver: i915 tty: 200x56
Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable in console for root.
Audio: Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:9dc8
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-6-amd64
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel
port: 4000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8723DE 802.11b/g/n PCIe Adapter vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: N/A port: 3000 bus ID: 03:00.0
chip ID: 10ec:d723
Drives: Local Storage: total: 242.22 GiB used: 8.8 MiB (0.0%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN520 SDAPNUW-256G-1006 size: 238.47 GiB block size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s lanes: 2 serial: <filter> rev: 20120006 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Generic model: Flash Disk size: 3.75 GiB block size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 8.07 scheme: MBR
RAID: Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: 5060 bus ID: 00:17.0
chip ID: 8086.282a rev: 30
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: N/A size: 3.84 GiB used: 8.8 MiB (0.2%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: 0.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 138 Uptime: 5m Memory: 7.68 GiB used: 226.7 MiB (2.9%) Init: systemd v: 241 runlevel: 3 Compilers:
gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash (sudo) v: 5.0.3 inxi: 3.0.32
I suspect the problem is with the graphics card since I can boot to runlevel 3 (command line with networking), but some distros have hung at various points apparently when attempting to run hardware (e.g. lvm attempting to start services). I have not been very systematic collecting info, so I can repeat whatever you recommend and provide more details.
Any help would be appreciated.
Phil