[lubuntu-devel] 16.04

Nio Wiklund nio.wiklund at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 04:15:10 UTC 2016


Den 2016-04-17 kl. 21:46, skrev Phill. Whiteside:
> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing this on social media....
>
>     Lubuntu is the lightweight version of the Ubuntu family and
>     especially suitable for "older machines" I fond a rather nasty
>     problem that isn't there with for example Xubuntu. The problem is
>     that I can only get the live version working with the nomodeset
>     option on 2 of the 4 machines which I tested the live image with.
>     Happens as well with the 32 as well as the 64 bit versions. When I
>     don't use the nomodeset I am just greeted with a flashing cursor and
>     a black screen. It looks like a lot of people with get problems
>     after upgrading. I tested the same machines with the live Xubuntu
>     images, no problem over there. I think this needs to be looked into
>     please. This happens on totally different machines. (older machines)
>     Intel graphics, ATI graphics and Nvidia graphics
>     
>
>
> It needs looking at as soon as they turn the cron job off, so that we
> are not trying to hit a moving target!!!!
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.

Hi Phill,

Maybe it is solved by entering nomodeset twice

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions/before--after

Best regards
Nio



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