On 3/8/21 5:46 PM, Bill Barry wrote:
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 7:21 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote:
On 3/8/21 5:07 PM, Bill Barry wrote:
Did this happen after an update of the video driver?
No. This morning I was using ENU-2 as my main desktop machine. After
lunch I shut down both ENU-2 and ENU-1 and swapped boxes. All the
peripherals stayed where they were. Both machines have a keyboard,
mouse, speakers, and two monitors. So all the stuff that had been on
ENU-2 are now connected to ENU-1, and vice versa. ENU-1 is up and
running Xubuntu 20.04, mostly as I expect it to. ENU-2, not so much.
Does alt-F1 give you a real text login screen with the word login there?
That should probably be ctrl-alt-F1
Yes, ctrl-alt-F1 does give me a real text login screen, after the
Xubuntu splash screen goes away. I am able to login there. I'm told that
there are 7 packages that can be uploaded. apt list --upgradable tells
me one is a gnome-sudoku, and the other 6 are bionic-security upgrades.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
I don't know what the problem is, but I am still guessing that it is
some problem with the display settings that is not automatically fixed
by going back to one screen.
There are some good suggestions here
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=10730
I will summarize the part that might work.
>From the terminal where you logged in
sudo service lightdm stop
rm ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml
sudo service lightdm start
alt-F7
That gave me the blank screen with the cursor in the upper left corner.
or perhaps instead of alt-F7
sudo shutdown -r now
<ctrl><alt><F1> brought me back to the terminal where I typed the
service commands.
sudo shutdown -r now took me back to the Xubuntu splash screen before
shutting down (but not powering down) and gave me the blank screen with
the cursor in the upper left corner. <ctrl><alt><F1> gave me a login
prompt, and I logged in.
From Ben's comment and looking at the log I'm thinking it's got
something to do with left over nVidia stuff. I should be able to do
something to clear that out and go with the Nouveau driver, right?
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
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