As an experiment booted from the DVD, same problem - blank screen
instead of a login screen.
18.04, no problem (using that to type this message, same hardware).
The R430 is not listed in Xorg.0.log but 18.04 runs it without problems.
Have a more modern card on order, will try that.
Mike Squires
On 10/31/18 1:02 PM, Mike Squires wrote:
I tried to upgrade by copying all my personal files offline, as well
as the important changes in /etc (mainly fstab for mounting my FreeBSD
NFS server directories).
The upgrade failed. The installation was made by replacing 18.04
completely, and seemed to succeed, but after rebooting both screens
were blank (have two HP 2511x flat panels, one connected via DVI and
the other via VGA from outputs on my old AMD/ATI Radeon 800XL
All-in-Wonder (R430 chipset).
I've seen this before when the system fails to correctly identify the
monitors (worked fine during installation, these have warning screens
that appear if the values used by the video card are out of range) or
when for some reason the video card is incorrectly identified or just
not supported.
Hardware is a Supermicro X7DAE (no SCSI) with currently 4GB RAM, 2
quad core Xeon 5300 CPUs, boot disk is a RAID1 array using two 2TB
Seagate Constellation drives on a LSI 9750 (4 channel) and a 3ware
9550SX PCI-X card used previously but not with any drives installed at
this point.
There is an M-Audio sound card installed but I've not loaded the
drivers for it, yet.
I had to blow away the previous logs by reinstalling 18.04, which is
working as usual. Nothing remarkable in ".xsession-errors" or
Xorg.0.log.
I'm going to replace the old Radeon card with something newer, and try
again. I have a fondness for the fonts as they appear with a Radeon
card.
I'll be modifying the system so I can boot off a removable drive, so
some debugging is certainly possible.
(I'm retired, first UN*X system was a Radio Shack 16 ca 1985; have run
FreeBSD since the 386BSD days. In past years I've done UN*X mostly as
a hobby while working as a MS Windows Server system admin; retired in
2014. Running Ubuntu Studio on my main desktop (this one) and on an
HP Envy 17T laptop and Dell 6230 laptop. Only apps that I use that
require Windows at this point are Sibelius and Quicken; will try to
migrate them to a MS Windows 7 VM soon. Back end at the house consists
of a 1U FreeBSD firewall, 4U FreeBSD quad Opteron NFS/Samba server, 4U
FreeBSD quad dual core Opteron backup server, 2U FreeBSD music backup
server and tape controller (amanda), and an HP 24 slot tape library.
These are all old and will be retired Real Soon Now. I got my most
recent job when the employers realized my home system had a more
sophisticated backup design than theirs, and they served thousands.)
Thank you.
Mike Squires
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