Display errors in non-live environment

dubbad · 2017-12-05 17:23:05

I'm currently working with a fresh installation of Arch.

During the installation process, everything went smoothly. It wasn't until after installing grub and booting from disk that the left 80% of my screen started displaying nonsense. I could tell it was still accepting input, as I could see the some pixels moving as I typed. I was even able to login and launch X.

With X running (i3), the same portion of the screen was broken, though I had just enough realestate to open a browser end start this thread.

I took a screenshot with `scrot`, but it didn't capture the display error, only the output of X:
https://i.imgur.com/Eq0lncW.png

So, to show the actual error, I had to take a picture of my screen (apologies):
https://i.imgur.com/v62m7JM.jpg

I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware issue, since the whole screen works just fine when I boot from my live disk. Is there some display driver that comes with the live image but isn't provided by the base, xorg, or xorg-drivers package groups?

Please let me know if there are any commands or files I should check and post.

UPDATE:

I've found that if I start X, immediately put the system to sleep (run i3lock and close the lid), my display is restored on wake. I'm heasitant to mark this as "solved" on account of this being more of a hack than a permanent fix, but I thought I'd share in case it helps anyone also running into this issue.

Last edited by dubbad (2017-12-07 20:52:36)

jasonwryan · 2017-12-05 18:05:57

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#1 2017-12-05 17:23:05

Display errors in non-live environment

#2 2017-12-05 18:05:57

Re: Display errors in non-live environment

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