Kirkstone 5.7 - Xwin won't start on new Lenovo IdeaPad [Solved]

[Stogie]

Hi guys. Can you help me out? A relative bought a brand-new Lenovo IdeaPad on a Black Friday deal and asked me to try it with Easy OS booted from a USB stick. I had a freshly-imaged new Kirkstone 5.7 USB stick so I tried that.

I booted from it and everything goes just fine until it's time to start xwin, when xwin says it's starting, pauses a few seconds, then says "Exited from X" and it suggests I type "xwin", which results in the same thing again.

As it suggests, I tried xorgwizard which shows nothing helpful. The options it shows are:

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modesetting
vesa
-none-

"vesa" is unaccelerated, low-res if I remember right and terrible (no fullscreen video, etc.) so I didn't bother trying that.

"-none-" is supposed to autodetect. I tried it. It didn't work.

So I tried "modesetting", which offers these resolutions:

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800x600
1024x768
1280x1024
NOTHING

The laptop's display is 1920x1080, so those crappy resolutions won't cut it. I tried "NOTHING" which is supposed to have X autodetect but it guesses badly/wrong.

When I pick MORE (to show more resolutions) and select 1920x1080 from the list and then do a test, it doesn't work at all, it exits with the message "(EE) no screens found(EE)", and on the following screen that appears a few seconds later, the resolution, horiz-freqency, refresh-frequency are all blank.

The "Tweak" option brings up a config file the contents of which I don't understand at all, so I didn't change anything.

Any ideas? Here's the laptop info taken from the BIOS info screen:

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Product Name: IdeaPad 1 15AMN7
BIOS Version: KSCN31WW
EC Version: KSEC31WW
MTM: 82VG00QFUS
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7520U with Radeon Graphics
System Memory: 16384 MB

Xwin, when it attempts to start, shows the Linux kernel version as "Linux 5.15.148 [x86_64 arch]".

Any ideas guys? It's a brand-new laptop, so maybe its video hardware isn't in the Linux kernel 5.15.148, but only later versions? Do the newer Easy OS versions Scarthgap or Daedalus have updated kernels that might have drivers for this hardware? Like I said, it's a brand-new laptop, so maybe this is the problem. Should I reimage this USB stick with Scarthgap and Daedalus and try that, or is that a waste of time?

Thanks to anyone who can help! Don't make my relative use the crappy bloated spyware called Windows 11 that it came with!
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[bugnaw333]

New Kirkstone is at 5.8.5 version. Try the Scarthgap if the problem still exist.
https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64 ... /2024/6.5/

[don570]

@Stogie

Try the Scarthgap if the problem still exist.

yes . a recent kernel might recognize the graphics chip... probably 'intel'
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[Stogie]

@Stogie

Try the Scarthgap if the problem still exist.

yes . a recent kernel might recognize the graphics chip... probably 'intel'
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Nah, it's not Intel integrated graphics, it's Radeon, as the BIOS screen info I pasted above indicates:

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CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7520U with Radeon Graphics

But maybe Scarthgap or Daedalus has a newer kernel that might have newer Radeon drivers that will work with this new machine's new Radeon version.

I'll try it out! Thanks guys!
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[Stogie]

Scarthgap recognizes the Radeon chip just fine, and works perfectly at native 1920x1080 automatically, no manual anything required.

Hooray! Thanks everyone.