Only half the of the screen is usable. When using the ‘nomodeset’ flag, this issue goes away. I want to use the hardware acceleration though, so for me, this is no good. Any ideas?
As far as I know, the xf86-video-intel driver does not use mode-setting. The video-modesetting driver however does.
Just to clarify, video mode-setting has nothing to do with acceleration. It is simply the difference between the kernel managing the switching between different video modes and letting the display server ─ e.g. X.Org ─ take care of it. With mode-setting enabled, the kernel handles the switching between different video modes, which (in theory) should be a little faster and cleaner.
Yes, I know this. The key here is that the driver that supports proper acceleration requires modesetting. The framebuffer driver does not support acceleration.
Does not make sense.
Those are 2 different things.
That page says no such thing…
Note: Some (Debian & Ubuntu, Fedora, KDE) recommend not installing the xf86-video-intel driver, and instead falling back on the modesetting driver for Gen4 and newer GPUs
This will provide profiles like: video-linux = default open drivers video-modesetting = will make sure an intel gpu uses modesetting and not xf86-video-intel
It seems to me there is some misunderstanding … please get your grub and boot and everything back to normal … most likely start by ensuring you are up to date, have a good working kernel, and reinstall video-linux
So, I actually didn’t do anything. Simply booting the installer, in fact, any Linux installer. All of them. Including CLI installers. All have this issue with only have the screen showing.
I will fully reinstall MANJARO by booting the installer with the “nomodeset” and get back to you in a few moments.
I am extremely hesitant to pin this on the ISO. I’ve tried half a dozen linux distributions. They all do this. Don’t think I’ve been getting that many screwed up ISOs…