I checked my BIOS setup, and it was exactly as it’s in the manual: “primary adapter” is set to PCIE and AGP mode to 8x. I did defaults just to be sure there’s nothing I could mess sometime earlier, and checked the northbridge configuration again, with the same result.

I disabled systemd-networkd, rebooted and nothing changed (in the sense that my network works). But as I understand this, I need to keep dhcpcd for dhcp-service, as iwd cannot do that. Am I wrong here?

  • Also, I checked my Arch-laptop and I have all three of them enabled as well. I remember at some point I was trying to do something about my network. There was a bug in the kernel, when my wifi didn’t work, I had a forum post about that, so it could be back then.
  • There was no issue with my network as far as I remember, but I disabled systemd-networkd as well.
  • Certainly I don’t understand this topic well enough. I tried to ask a friend long before, but as I see he doesn’t know that network topic well too. Can I keep just systemd-networkd (as I have this systemd monster installed anyway) and ditch iwd and dhcpcd entirely? I don’t understand, as if I remove my network, it’ll be somewhat difficult to restore it back.

My Xorg logs

I don’t know which logs are the corrent ones, so I post all four of them:

  1. [[http://0x0.st/H2Wq.txt][/var/log/Xorg.0.log]]
  2. [[http://0x0.st/H2Wb.txt][/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old]]
  3. [[http://0x0.st/H2Wc.txt][.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log]]
  4. [[http://0x0.st/H2WT.txt][.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log.old]]

I tried to run startxfce4 again, with no success. Just a moving cursor and nothing more. I tried to systemctl start sddm.service to run previously installed with it LXQt, with no success. There was a graphical window with user and password, I could move the cursor, but the interface didn’t react to my inputs. It looked like a hanged system, but the cursor was moving freely. Until I switched to another tty: black screen, with no tty. Switched back: still black screen. I shortly pressed poweroff button on my case and the system shutdown. Which signals that the system didn’t hang, just its GUI.

Also, I installed Ubuntu 23.04 in Safe Graphics mode, but I couldn’t run it. The system simply halted at the point of loading the interface.

I made a USB drive with Debian 12, and I’ll try it tomorrow as well. I remember it has a TUI installer and read somewhere that they implemented non-free drivers into their installer (so I may succeed with my Wi-Fi at least). Mybe it’ll work with some lightweight system, like LXQt or LXDE out-of-the-box. Which I doubt, as it doesn’t work on Arch for me, but I’m going to give it a try.