I’ve seen the text output from both now - and I’m not any further ahead yet. Both run happily - with a wait for start job on the livemedia mhwd script - that seems to complete after about 40+ seconds. The last message is to the effect that Plymouth is ending, and it’s ready to start (lightdm or gddm) - after which it blanks the screen - I get the ‘no signal’ from the monitor, then it appears to die completely (no residual light from the monitor, even). So, presumably the greeters are running into something they can’t handle. Both were tried with free drivers this time. Here’s an inxi of the machine I’m trying to use:
┌17:22:11 WD= [~]
└───freebird@aerie ─▶$ inxi -Fxxxz
System: Kernel: 5.7.9-arch1-1 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.1.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.20
info: xfce4-panel, plank wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: EndeavourOS
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B450-PLUS v: Rev X.0x serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 2008 date: 12/06/2019
Battery: Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech K350 serial: <filter> charge: 70% (should be ignored)
rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M510 serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 2400G with Radeon Vega Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen
L2 cache: 2048 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 62421
Speed: 3874 MHz min/max: 1600/3900 MHz boost: disabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3684 2: 3870 3: 3404
4: 3659 5: 3821 6: 3546 7: 3551 8: 3722
Graphics: Device-1: AMD Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 09:00.0 chip ID: 1002:15dd
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: amdgpu resolution: 3840x2160~60Hz s-dpi: 96
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.37.0 5.7.9-arch1-1 LLVM 10.0.0) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.3
direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 09:00.1 chip ID: 1002:15de
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 09:00.6 chip ID: 1022:15e3
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.7.9-arch1-1
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169
v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full ■■■: <filter>
IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full ■■■: N/A
Drives: Local Storage: total: 6.60 TiB used: 858.86 GiB (12.7%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 250GB size: 232.89 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 1B2QEXM7 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS100T2B0A-00SM50 size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
serial: <filter> rev: 00WD scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD40EFRX-68N32N0 size: 3.64 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 0A82 scheme: GPT
ID-4: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Seagate model: Expansion Desk size: 1.82 TiB serial: <filter>
rev: 0712 scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / size: 31.47 GiB used: 18.02 GiB (57.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4
ID-2: /home size: 229.70 GiB used: 21.35 GiB (9.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 1.92 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 49.4 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 49 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 291 Uptime: N/A Memory: 13.66 GiB used: 1.04 GiB (7.6%) Init: systemd v: 245 Compilers:
gcc: 10.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1185 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.17 running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.1.04
There’s about 7 or 8 other distros on here, so it should be ‘conformable’ enough to at least make it Calamares, you’d think. Any older versions of the ISO’s to try? Thanks for your tie - I’d like to see this - and SGS keeps the interest up with screenshots etc! 