[ubuntu-studio-devel] Problems installing 18.10

[Mike Squires]

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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