Hey Alan!

 AI> If I succeed I'll be building an xfce desktop tomorrow.

You'll succeed.  If you got this far then the above is well within reach.

 AI> I never saw them until I added the nouveau module.

I've got the right driver;

 lspci -s 00:02.0 -k
 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 500 (rev 0b)
        DeviceName: Onboard - Video
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 500
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915

Still no love on legacy boots which is the case for the node.  No big deal but like you previously said that it would be nice to see them working.

For the record, I am still getting the proper framebuffer loading but no boot penguins other than when I use uefi which as of this writing isn't really working on a couple of machines for whatever reason.  Does it matter?

Life is good,
Maurice

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