Thanks Michael and Stephen ...
Got it working again (mostly) although it seems that the last
update I did changed some things and took away some features
and functions. I still have 4 desktops, but each one has the
same background, whereas before I was able to have a different
background on each screen (to keep straight where I was ;)
Really miss that feature.
Other features and functions are also gone.
I hate system updates.
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On 2021-03-04 6:04 pm, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Sounds like gpu died, or drivers did. If you have another laptop or
anything to ssh from, see if you can get into the box via ssh and
troubleshoot that way. I've popped video cards to die before, and
they work, but only headless.
Try to 'cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log' to see if your card died, or updated
perhaps unexpectedly. Sadly updating some minor 3rd party crap would
occasionally break my whole update and os, ubuntu or arch really.
Last time I upgraded my arch it broke nvidia binary support with too
new a kernel, luckily I never use the nvidia gpu as prime is a
basketcase anyways, so it uses intel normally anyways. Above old
laptop example worked if I disable nvidia drivers and used only intel,
as the gpu fried. Yours might have if video is just dead, but
otherwise seems alive.
If only intel, your software may have just gotten hozed - try a
different user profile if you can get any video out of it.
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On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 1:13 PM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
<[email protected]> wrote:
You may have something off in your settings for cinnamon, This is
for arch, but it can give you a great place to start from.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/cinnamon
But my first thought would be to rename the config files for your
window manager and reboot to see if it is part of those settings.
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:09 AM joe--- via PLUG-discuss
<[email protected]> wrote:
I have been running Linux Mint 17 on several computers
24/7 for a very long time with very reliable performance.
This morning, when I turned on the monitor, the panel
had vanished and I no way to do anything.
I finally found a way to get to the command line and
all of my data appears to be there, but none of my
utilities in my home/bin file work.
Recently, I read that Linux Mint was threatening to
coerce users to upgrade to a newer version. This would
be unconscionable and reprehensible! Is this what they
have done.
I hope someone can help me figure out how to get my
system working again.
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