I have the exact same little box for my HTPC in my living room.

It’s possible something went wrong during your install or configuration. I’m running a different distro, but I had to do very little tweaking or configuring of drivers, since the hardware is pretty standard.

Do you have any display output at all? Dropping into a tty or accessing your machine over ssh after boot at least gives you a starting point to debug.

Some tools that you can use to gather more info:

• inxi: prints out helpful summaries of system info for debugging. inxi --graphics should give you some info to work with. My output tells me that I’m using the i915 kernel driver for display output.
• modinfo: prints out kernel module info. The output is lengthy, so piping to a pager is helpful: modinfo i915 | less
• system logs: see if there are any useful error messages in your systemd journal with journalctl --this-boot --priority=3, or search for messages related to the i915 kernel module with journalctl --this-boot --grep i915

A few points to check:

• are you able to connect it via the RJ45 ethernet?
• is the non-free-firmware section of the repos activated in the sources.list?
• is the firmware-linux-nonfree package installed?
• check the output of dmesg for errors

Graphics worked out of the box for me. In order to get wifi running I needed more recent firmware. IIRC, all I had to do was drop the file in.

any advice

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