 SnakeoilIgnore Button. The coward's feature.Premium
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| Ubuntu 12.04 How many got a Black Screen? I'm curious as to how many here that went to Ubuntu experienced a Black Screen instead of a log in screen?
I ran into it yesterday when upgrading my Ubuntu install.
»Currently running Ubuntu 11.04, switching to 12.10
I googled and seen many posts about it, but I don't think I've ever seen one here, besides mine.
Is it a problem with Nvidia cards, or lightdm?
What is lightdm.. nm, I googled it read the wiki.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightDM
I wonder if it's the older Nvidia cards that have trouble with it.
I have a Geoforce 7600 GT in my PC. My entire PC [both of them, needs to be updated. But I lack the money currently]. |
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| Usually it is the video driver that is the problem. This link may help:
»askubuntu.com/questions/153915/h···-precise
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said by Snakeoil:I'm curious as to how many here that went to Ubuntu experienced a Black Screen instead of a log in screen?
I ran into it yesterday when upgrading my Ubuntu install.
»Currently running Ubuntu 11.04, switching to 12.10
I googled and seen many posts about it, but I don't think I've ever seen one here, besides mine.
Is it a problem with Nvidia cards, or lightdm?
What is lightdm.. nm, I googled it read the wiki.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightDM
I wonder if it's the older Nvidia cards that have trouble with it.
I have a Geoforce 7600 GT in my PC. My entire PC [both of them, needs to be updated. But I lack the money currently].
When I ran my upgrade - it appears the screen dimmed after some time out period. I could still see the upgrade status window (baarely) and simply waited for the upgrade to complete - then I rebooted and all was fine
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 Santa FeI use Xfce, don't you wish Everyone did?Premium,ExMod 2002-7
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Must be a Ubuntu thing  . Upgraded Xubuntu to 12.10 and didn't get no black screen.
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I have a laptop with i915 graphics and haven't been able to upgrade to anything with a 3.X kernel for a couple of years now.
It's a known kernel backlight issue, with a zillion workarounds and kludges that really just don't F***ing work and to date nobody has inserted a permanent fix into the kernel for it.
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At the OP:
I got a black screen after I upgraded on my Desktop machine... accessed the command line in recovery mode and installed XFCE on that particular machine.
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| My terminal foo is weak, I admit. I tried installing nvidia drivers per a page I found through google. My Nvidia drivers are up to date, or so I was told when I tried to install/update them.
I have no idea what XFCE is, [ok, I just googled it , now I know].
When it first happened, I thought the update had failed, and was "crying".
Then I googled, and found the link that I used to go to terminal and make GDM my default video handler.
I'll have to take time [some time] and go through the repositories to make sure they are up to date. Then add the unofficial Nvidia driver repository and see what happens. Maybe then I can switch back to Lightdm.
But then again, my video card is a 7600 GT, so it's old. The whole PC is old.
So that could be the issue, the modern Lightdm may not run on older video cards.
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