Hi David,
[dear help desk (Cc'ed), please document on our Known Issues page that
Intel Atom "Cherry Trail" systems may need the nomodeset option.]
David Thomas:
> I downloaded the experimental ISO last night from the link you supplied. Here are
> some results.
> UNSUCCESSFUL CASES
> [...]
> SUCCESSFUL CASE
> Normal Boot with quiet taken away and nomodeset added: boots all the way up, as with
> beta3, but can't use display setting or xrandr command to fix the 90 degree screen
> rotation, and (as I plan to report separately) no network card detection.
OK, so this is a different problem than #12219. A quick web search
tells me that it's a common problem with Atom "Cherry Trail" systems.
FWIW I've read somewhere that Linux 4.10 might fix this problem,
thanks to this commit:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=bb98e72adaf9d19719aba35f802d4836f5d5176c
> I'm happy to try anything else you might suggest.
Sadly, at this point I think our best option is to wait until Linux
4.10 is available in Debian backports and Tails includes it (my best
guess is that this will happen in Tails 3.2, currently scheduled to be
released on October 3rd), or until the fix is backported to the Linux
4.9.x branch (I wouldn't bet on this ever happening unless someone
pushes for it and does some work about it).
Sorry!
Cheers,
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intrigeri
