On 25 July 2013 04:20, Dale Amon <a...@vnl.com> wrote: > I have held back from putting in this report for a very long time > as my experience reading this list has led me to believe that no > one will much care because Granny Would Never Do That and she > certainly Would Never Know How to Do That. > > I have a Thinkpad W520. I have identical second screens, Acer's, at > home and at work. The laptop moves back and forth with me and thus > makes the transition back and forth twice a day. I use Mate for my > work space. I can't stand Unity. Matter of taste and habits. I made > my choice and it was to stay with what for me worked far better. > > In order to use the VGA connector, I have the BIOS set to the Discrete > Graphics Mode. > > When I boot, one of three things happens: > > * A blue screen of death before even the grub screen appears > * A large blinking cursor at the top left of a black screen > just after the grub screen selection is made. > * A successful boot where the large blinking cursor turns into > a small blinking cursor after some interval and then > it goes to the encryption password screen and the boot > suceeeds from there.
That sounds like a hardware problem to me. Colin -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
