dude, sorry about the chemo. Mine went like a breeze this year. That chemical must be nasty.
Anyhow, here's a thought. Do you have a pc keyboard around somewhere? I'm thinking if you plug that in a long with the mac keyboard you might be able to switch to another tty to see what your doing. Tty is usual ctrl-alt-f1 through about f8 Have you tried a later version of xubuntu? I installed ubuntu on a mac mini about the same age, can't remember how I did it ... On Jan 5, 2018 10:49 PM, "Jim Graham" <spooky1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am in the process of upgrading my Mac mini (mid-2011) from OS X Lion > (10.7.5) to Xubuntu, and I'm running into problems that I also faced with > regular Ubuntu, only with a slight change. But first, details on what > and how: > > 1) Mac mini (mid-2011) basic config: > Processor: 2.7 GHz Intel Core I7 (dual core) > Memory: 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 > Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6630M 256 MB > Software: OS X Lion (10.7.5) > > > 2) Burned the current xubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso image (verified > via md5) to my mini's "Superdrive" CDR/DVDR drive, which was also > verified. > > 3) Booted using Refit boot menu (the one that works on my Mac) and chose > said DVD, for which the icon was the usual Linux penguin and the text > said something along the lines of "Boot Linux from DVD". With the > plain Ubuntu, it never showed the icon and only referred to "legacy > OS". > > At that point, I saw what I hadn't seen before, either, again, the > penguin (Tux ... but not my cat Tux). That stayed there for several > seconds, and then I got what I'm gettting sick of seeing: a blank > screen that stays blank, and the only way out is the power cord. > > I have read that, at least for the Unity version of Ubuntu, the graphics > card's drivers probably need to be installed, and I'm guessing, for now, > that this is also the case. However, the posts in AskUbuntu that I read > about that also showed that by pressing either the down or right arrow, > a menu (text) would appear. It doesn't. > > So if we assume that the drivers ARE the problem, how do I install the > drivers when I can't see what I'm doing, and Mac OS X can't read the > iso file (only burn it to CD/DVD or use dd to copy it to a drive)? > > Or, does the lack of any menu showing up after an arrow key mean > something bigger and worse is going on? > > If anyone has any suggestions on how to solve this, please let me know. > If I hadn't already cut it all off, I'd be tearing my air out right now > (cancer #1's final chemo left it very thin and gray, so I finally just > shaved it off recently). > > Thanks, > --jim > > PS: There was once at time, before cancer #1 included 3 brain tumors, > 3 very severe brain surgeries to remove said tumors, and > whole-brain/max-dose radiation therapy ... and severe chemotherapy > with Cisplatin (aka Platinol), aka, "100% pure distilled evil in > an IV bag") that I would have been done with this several days ago, > but all of that has really taken its toll on my ability to work > with issues like this. So again, thanks in advance! > > -- > THE SCORE: ME: 2 CANCER: 0 > > My freeware hurricane tracking system - https://jstrack.org/jstrack/ > > 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | AN EXERCISE is a situation in which you stop > what > spooky130u AT gmail.com | you're doing in order to simulate doing what > you > | were doing so you can show someone else that > you > ICBM / Hurricane: | can simulate what you were doing as well as you > 30.439947N 86.635177W | were doing it before you were interrupted. > > > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users >
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