[lubuntu-devel] Black screen with flashing cursor

[Jan Holtman]

It seems that all the problem machines have on thing in common and that is
the video-card 945 of Intel.
What I have noticed is that Xubuntu 16.04 works well on these machines
Do Xubuntu and Lubuntu have different vide drivers for Intel?

<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail>
Virusvrij.
www.avast.com
<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail>
<#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards,

Jan Holtman

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

<2%3Ajan.holtman at live.com>

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jan,
>
> On 18 April 2016 at 19:24, Jan Holtman <oulik.jan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 downloaded this:-
> ian at newton:~/isos/Xenial-Xerus/Daily-Build-19th-April$ md5sum
> xenial-desktop-i386.iso
> 88297c1fa949040b57438bba6a99e527  xenial-desktop-i386.iso
>
> used md5sum to check the integrity of the iso - it passed
>
> and burnt it to DVD-RW. Installed it successfully on my Samsung NC10
> NetBook. Like you, I believe, when it came to booting I got a black screen
> with this message:-
> /dev/sda5 clean, 122669/9527296 files, 1320333/38095703 blocks
>
> Details about the Samsung NC10 can be obtained from
> https://gist.github.com/anonymous/21b61903871ee685fc79
>
> Rebooted. Pressed SHIFT to get into grub. Added the parameter "nomodeset"
> as mentioned by you to the Kernel command line and the system booted
> successfully.
>
> (You'll know this bit but someone may find this useful)
> Went to the command line (CTRL+ALT+t shortcut)
> cd /etc/default
> sudo chmod o+rw grub
> emacs grub &   # or some other text editor
> Added nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
> sudo update-grub
>
> System works fine now. I feel that the display looks a bit blurred now.
>
>
> BW,
>
>
> Ian
>
> --
> -- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - http://www.accu.org
> -- My writing - https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/
> -- Free Software page -
> https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lubuntu-devel/attachments/20160420/ddb9dedd/attachment.html>