When I run startx I get a blank screen unless I use nomodeset in the kernel parameters.
Device-1: Intel Arrow Lake-P [Intel Graphics] driver: i915
Seems pretty generic, so I wonder why it does not work out of the box?
Can you please check the logs in /var/log/ to see if there are errors
configure_display.log
2026-08-16 10:29:54 [INFO] === configure-display script has started ===
2026-08-16 10:29:54 [INFO] Successfully executed xrandr query command
2026-08-16 10:29:54 [INFO] Found only one connected display: eDP1 connected 2880x1800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 300mm x 190mm
2026-08-16 10:29:54 [INFO] Primary display eDP1: 2880x1800px, 300x190mm
2026-08-16 10:29:54 [INFO] Calculated DPI (dots per inch): 242.9
2026-08-16 10:29:54 [INFO] The display_scale setting in the yaml config is ‘disabled’
2026-08-16 10:29:54 [INFO] The display scaling is disabled in the yaml configuration file
2026-08-16 10:29:54 [INFO] Not changing the display scaling factor
sysrescue_autorun.log
2026-08-16 10:29:37,864
2026-08-16 10:29:37,865 ############################# Initializing autorun #############################
2026-08-16 10:29:37,866 Showing the effective autorun configuration …
2026-08-16 10:29:37,866 config[‘ar_disable’]=False
2026-08-16 10:29:37,867 config[‘ar_attempts’]=1
2026-08-16 10:29:37,867 config[‘ar_source’]=
2026-08-16 10:29:37,867 config[‘ar_ignorefail’]=False
2026-08-16 10:29:37,868 config[‘ar_nodel’]=False
2026-08-16 10:29:37,868 config[‘ar_nowait’]=True
2026-08-16 10:29:37,868 ar_suffixes=[‘’, ‘0’, ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’, ‘6’, ‘7’, ‘8’, ‘9’, ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’, ‘E’, ‘F’]
2026-08-16 10:29:37,868 exec=
2026-08-16 10:29:37,869 Cannot find a valid ar_source, searching scripts in the default directories
2026-08-16 10:29:37,870 No autorun scripts found, nothing to do.
Xorg.0.log (warnings & errors only)
[ 31.788] (WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/misc” does not exist.
[ 31.789] (WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/OTF” does not exist.
[ 31.789] (WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/Type1” does not exist.
[ 31.789] (WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/100dpi” does not exist.
[ 31.789] (WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/75dpi” does not exist.
[ 31.953] (WW) intel(0): Unknown chipset
[ 31.937] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[ 31.937] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[ 31.937] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
[ 31.957] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
[ 31.957] (EE) AIGLX error: unable to load driver i965
[ 31.957] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
[ 31.957] (EE) AIGLX error: unable to load driver swrast
[ 31.957] (EE) GLX: could not load software renderer
[ 31.957] (EE) intel(0): Failed to allocate caches, disabling RENDER acceleration
[ 32.211] (EE) intel(0): Failed to submit rendering commands (Cannot allocate memory), disabling acceleration.