From: "Douglas Ray" <dougray@cpan.org>

On 7/01/15 5:09 PM, Peter Ross wrote:

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Hi,

I installed Debian based SteamOS on a Intel NUK i5 Box with HDMI connecting a Samsung UA32C4000 TV.

The graphical installer works but after installation the start of X11 fails (just stripes so it does not get the resolution right)

well, some xorg.conf and xrandr magic seems to be required. I will come to that.

However, the graphical installer works.. Could I "steal" the information from it to get the right monitor data?

The installer probably just presumes VGA will work.

It's using the framebuffer with 1360x768, just for completeness but that is not the issue. I debugged my way through the start and found a lot of glitches. There was a missing Intel video Xorg driver, then Mesalib modules missing, then LightDM segfaulting because there was no X (created a symlink to Xorg) and now it starts simply an xterm. I do not see the mouse so I cannot click in it, that would be next. So, overall, something must have gone wrong in the install, terribly. But it looked all good and I did not see any obvious errors.. I cannot believe the path to a working play console should be that rocky. I wonder whether it is worth continuing or better to install Ubuntu, the Steam client and then going from there. Any opinions or alternative ideas? Regards Peter