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dotvortex

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Registered: 2016-01-26

Posts: 2

HP Spectre x360 only boots with 'nomodeset' parameter on fresh install

Hey ArchLinux forums,
I've recently received my HP Spectre x360 Ultrabook and installed Arch on it, leaving the preinstalled Windows 10 and Recovery partition intact, only shrinking the former.
Now, I've mostly followed the beginner guide and got a GPT system with GRUB2 and Intel Microcode running, the only problem is that it does not fully boot without the 'nomodeset' parameter.

When launching normally, without the 'nomodeset' parameter, the system starts to boot and then goes into a lit black screen, with this text appearing for around a second:

[    0.037191] Ignoring BGRT: invalid status 0 (expected 1)
starting version 228
ARCH: clean, 70804/6291456 files, 920449/25165824 blocks
[    1.295148] tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: TPM2 ACPI table has a zero address for the control area
[    1.423165] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Unsupported splx structure

Output of 'parted -l':

Model: ATA SAMSUNG MZNTE256 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 256GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                          Flags
 1      17.4kB  1049kB  1031kB                                             bios_grub
 2      1049kB  274MB   273MB   fat32        EFI system partition          boot, esp
 3      274MB   408MB   134MB                Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 4      408MB   103GB   103GB   ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata
 5      103GB   207GB   103GB   ext4
 6      207GB   243GB   36.7GB  ntfs                                       msftdata
 7      243GB   244GB   780MB   ntfs         Basic data partition          diag
 8      244GB   256GB   12.0GB  ntfs         Basic data partition          diag

grub.cfg on EFI partition:
http://pastebin.com/raw/AJMvqwct

For sda1 and sda3 I get the following warnings when running grub-mkconfig, due to them not having a filesystem:
http://pastebin.com/raw/KxMXdMTa

Journal of a boot without 'nomodeset':
http://pastebin.com/raw/yaS5P65J

If providing more information, files or logs can help, I'd be more than happy to provide them.

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 9,003

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Re: HP Spectre x360 only boots with 'nomodeset' parameter on fresh install

SNAFU: some cards require KMS to be disabled.

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … odesetting

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Jin, Jîyan, Azadî

dotvortex

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Registered: 2016-01-26

Posts: 2

Re: HP Spectre x360 only boots with 'nomodeset' parameter on fresh install

Thanks for your input. I've since installed the linux-mainline-4.5rc1 kernel on this laptop and it boots correctly, without additional parameters; even GNOME 3.18 and GDM are working like a charm now.