For starters, I tried to fix this without making a post so I searched and tried all the tricks I could find. I dont have a VGA port so I have a USB video adaptor. I cant see the boot screen because (I think) the usb video doesnt come alive until it starts booting so I cant select boot options. so it boots fine until XORG starts and then blinking cursor. CTRL-ALT-bkspc and I get a prompt. can ping internet and grep around. I think im either close, or its impossible. any pointers or suggestions would be great.
FYI
my linux knowledge - 3/10
personal intelligence - firmly midwit
stubbornness and motivation - 8/10
Watchguard XTM-5 (lol)
512M CF - flashed to this card and boots from this card
BIOS locked so I cant boot off USB
Celeron E3400 2.6G
2G Ram
console cable to serial port displays bios startup messages but then nothing afterwards
less /proc/sys/tty/driver/serial
0: uart:16550A port 00003F8 irq 4 tx:126 rx:0
report-video
VGA compatible controller Intel Corp 4 series chipset integrated graphics controller
kernel driver in use: i915
kernel modules: i915
modules requested to be loaded glx
drivers requested intel
probing xorg
driver loaded and in use intel
loaded modules dri2 dri3 glx present
Monitor: card1-DVI-I-1
Model Dell P190S
wxH cm 30x30
xorgwizard:
set video automatic, vesa, modesetting, fbdev, specified 'intel' (all with no success)
lsmod | grep 915
i915 1429504 0
i2c_algo_bit 16384 1 i915
drm_kms_heper 139264 2 udl, i915
drm 368640 4 udl,,drm_kms_helper, i915
less Xorg.0.log | grep 915
(II) intel(0) using kernel mode setting driver: i915, version 1.6.0 20190822
less xorg.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card 0"
Driver "intel" #card0driver
BusID "0:2:0" #card0busid
lspci | grep VGA
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp 4 series chipset integrated graphics controller rev 03
ls /etc/modprobe.d/
alsa-base.conf alsa.conf apm.conf ath9k.conf blacklist.conf puppy.conf radeon-dpn-conf
less sys/module/i915/parameters/modeset
-1