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Forced into using Ubuntu... 18.04.... (lemmy.ca)
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When I decided to switch to using Linux as my primary OS I had Artix and Debian dreams (personal and work/enterprise) but the refurb dell 5420 rugged I got had other ideas... Tried many distros and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS was the only one that worked without nomodeset. (Funnily enough that's the version Dell officially supports who would have thought..)

Guess I now have a year to figure out how to get these darn Intel GPU drivers to work on an up to date distro before I stop getting security patches..

(Still gonna run KDE tho)

My business VPSs are running Debian with windows server VMs and this laptop's main purpose is gonna be SSH connections to those anyway but still.

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[–] 8 points 16 hours ago* (3 children)

that's a bit weird, but if it's really the only version that works, you can take its ancient kernel and pair it with a recent distro.

intel gpu drivers tend to work pretty well though, so it's really strange.

i have many machines ranging from intel core i 2nd~7th gen (and igpu), they all work well.. never had issues

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    I was tempted to say it was a hardware issue until I tried 18.04 and it worked flawlessly. I guess having it be a certified version does mean something.

    I do require CVE patches on this machine so using the old kernel past EOL/ESM isn't really an option. I might have to see if it's possible to extract only the required drivers.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 hours ago* (1 child)

    uhh i just tried searching and your i5-8350U is a Kaby Lake Refresh actually, so it's more like a 7th gen.. and it has UHD Graphics 620.

    i have two laptops with very similar gpu. one HD Graphics 615 (i5-7y57) and one HD Graphics 630 (i5-7300HQ). according to techpowerup these gpus seem to be all very similar, based on Kaby Lake GT2.

    those two laptops are all running Slackware 15.0 (Linux 5.15) flawlessly. i suggest you try this distro/version just in case. it's a bit old but still the latest version and receiving security updates.

    or maybe, the recent distros you tried are using Wayland instead of X11? i'm using Xorg X11 on all my systems.

    if your machine somehow really just works with an older kernel, maybe try checking if some version used on RHEL/Rocky or CIP SLTS works well.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago*

    Have you had any success updating your glibc to 2.34 or higher. Slackware 15 is baked into 2.33 which was unfortunately the last version that with that directory hierarchy causing a some breakage.

    I tried dropping it into /opt and adding that to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH but that just causes segmentation faults

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