Attempting to start Manjaro (Budgie) on a laptop with a faulty graphics card
Attempting to start Manjaro (Budgie) on a laptop with a faulty graphics card
Hello everyone, I'm attempting to start Manjaro-Budgie 18.0.4 on an HP Envy 17t-3000 CTO with an i7 2670QM processor. The AMD 6770 GPU is non-functional, but I can run Windows 7 or 10 using the built-in Intel HD 3000 graphics and basic VGA drivers from Windows Update—just avoid installing the AMD drivers or disabling the card through Device Manager. When trying Linux distributions via USB, it installs but crashes with a black screen except for free drivers in Manjaro Budgie (Ubuntu LTS current, elementary OS, and some Manjaro versions). The boot loader shows a graphical interface text but doesn’t launch a GUI. I attempted CTLR+ALT+F3 and "startx," but both failed with errors. I’m unsure about safely disabling the AMD card or forcing Intel’s graphics to be primary via the command line. Someone with experience might know how to handle this. Happy Easter!
Check if the GPU can be taken out or if it's permanently attached to the motherboard.
Turning off the GPU means removing or detaching components. Avoid doing this unless absolutely necessary.
There wasn't anything I could locate. The bios seem very minimal.
I would adjust the boot settings to turn off the Radeon driver and switch to Intel for everything. Try Spoiler radeon.blacklist=1 i915.modeset=1 radeon.modeset=0 press E when the grub screen appears to modify the boot parameters, insert them after a quiet splash separated by a space. Test those boot parameters individually if combining them doesn't work, such as radeon.blacklist=1 i915.modeset=1 then radeon.modeset=0 i915.modeset=1 radeon.blacklist=1 only separately, and repeat the same for modeset. If none of these helps, switch to amdgpu instead like amdgpu.blacklist=1... etc., and follow all the steps again.
Attempted these, but keep receiving an error about the light display manager not starting.