GUI with Dell XPS 15 (9550)

[cyrus104]

I've used two different porteus version 3.1 and the new 3.2 which has fixed some other issues.

The issue that I'm having is that everything is fine when I use text mode but when I go to GUI mode it dies on me with a black screen and _ once it launches the gui. It also freezes the machine so I can't switch consoles and see what the error code is.

Any thoughts would be great.
Thanks

[Bogomips]

Welcome to Porteus. It would help to know which desktop the GUI is on, for a start.

[cyrus104]

Sorry about that, I've tried with kde5 from 3.2rc2-x64 and with XFCE from 3.1.

[donald]

Have you already tried the nvidia drivers?
(version 3.1)
http://dl.porteus.org/x86_64/current/drivers/
(version 3.2rc2)
http://dl.porteus.org/x86_64/testing/rc2/drivers/

[cyrus104]

I have, I've been putting it in my modules section. Should I move it up to base or keep it in modules?

[donald]

The modules folder is OK --- except when booting into always fresh

[cyrus104]

I have now tracked it down a little farther. When I use 3.2 XFCE and it works just fine. The error only happens when I use KDE from the 3.2 iso.

I tested it a few more times and when it switches from the boot sequence to the KDE gui it runs the loading page and then when it should go to the desktop /login screen. If I press control+alt+backspace, it resets KDE and then it comes up with a login prompt but it doesn't log me it, it goes back to the blackscreen.

Thanks

[Bogomips]

^ KDE is rather ponderous. Do you have enough ram for it available?

[cyrus104]

32GB of ram.