Boot into safe mode or single user mode, so you get a command prompt. Then you could try checking your dmesg / syslog etc, and maybe uninstalling any nvidia drivers?
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 8:05 AM Bruce <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7/20/20 12:00 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 21:22:49 -0700 > > Bruce <[email protected]> dijo: > > > >> My Google searches turn up lots of problems with Nvidia. This laptop > >> has onboard Intel drivers. > >> > >> Can anybody point me in the proper direction? > > The command lshw -c video will tell you which chip it is trying to use. > > There are lots of problems with the nouveau driver, especially with > > older Nvidia chips. > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > This laptop is running an Intel chipset. The driver is i915. > > It's strange that things work during boot showing the Ubuntu logo then > just stops around the time the desktop should appear > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
