[lubuntu-devel] Black screen with flashing cursor

[Jan Holtman]

I found a strange bug on the daily build versions of Lubuntu 16.04 When
booting from a live USB on some older machines Lubuntu 16.04 does not boot
through, I just get a blinking cursor. I have tried this on 3 different
machines, The nomodeset setting seems to kind of solve the problem, but
then only one monitor can get used. On one of the machines that I tested
the font looks weird. It is not an ideal solution. All the machines which
had those problems are older machines TXXXX series processor, like T2400,
T5500 etc. Lubuntu is ideal for older machines

I found out that running Xubuntu on the exact same machines both the 64 and
32 bits versions don’t have this problem. Lubuntu 15.10 is also running
fine on those machines. Also the video card can be ATI based, or Intel
GM945 or Nvidia

Perhaps this bug can be rectified with the final release. I helped several
people with Lubuntu on their old XP machines and now this is unfortunately
happening.


Best regards,

Jan Holtman

oulik.jan at gmail.com <1%3Aoulik.jan at gmail.com>

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