Difference between installation restart vs desktop restart

[Jim Byrnes]

On 12/11/2016 06:10 PM, Peter Silva wrote:
> likely you have an nvidia video card, there are recipes in here:
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/162075/my-computer-boots-to-a-black-screen-what-options-do-i-have-to-fix-it


I do have a nvidia card and I just managed to get it working.  I 
re-installed a number of times and finally I must have gotten lucky 
because it finally booted to the desktop.  I was able to determine that 
it was using the open source driver. I had it install the recommended 
Nvidia driver and now all is well.

Thanks,  Jim


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> On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 4:19 PM, MLR <mailinglist at online.ms> wrote:
>> Take a real Debian, it just works.
>>
>> Hth John
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 11.12.2016 um 22:03 schrieb Jim Byrnes:
>>> On 12/11/2016 12:14 PM, Peter Silva wrote:
>>>> If you do <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<F1> do you get a login prompt at the
>>>> top left of the screen? you can then enter your username and
>>>> password and at least get a termninal window to start figuring
>>>> this out.
>>>
>>> No. ctrl-alt-F1 does nothing.
>>>
>>> Regards, Jim
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Jim Byrnes
>>>> <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>> I am trying to install Ubuntu 16.04.1 to a machine I just
>>>>> built. It has an Intel Xeon E3-1220v5 LGA1151 processor, 32
>>>>> GB ddr4 dram and a Geforce GTX 750Ti video card.
>>>>>
>>>>> The first thing I did was to just "Try Ubuntu". The screen
>>>>> flashed dark pink then went black.  The harddrive led
>>>>> flashed for a while but in the end the screen remained
>>>>> black.
>>>>>
>>>>> Then I tried to "install Ubuntu". This seemed to work. The
>>>>> install screen was at a nice resolution. I checked the
>>>>> "download software while installing option" and the "third
>>>>> party software option". When prompted I restarted the
>>>>> machine.  Again I got the pink flash and then the black
>>>>> screen.
>>>>>
>>>>> Some googling led to the suggestion not to allow third party
>>>>>  software, so I tried that and I also did not check
>>>>> "download software while installing" and it seemed to work.
>>>>> After the restart I was booted to the ubuntu desktop. At this
>>>>> point I ran the software updater and restarted at the prompt.
>>>>> At this point I again ended up at a black screen.
>>>>>
>>>>> I then repeated the above procedure but did not run software
>>>>> updated once the desktop came up.  When I restarted I again
>>>>> ended up with just a black screen.
>>>>>
>>>>> So what is the difference between a installation restart and
>>>>> a normal desktop restart?
>>>>>
>>>>> Most of the suggestions I see from google pertain to dual
>>>>> boot situations which is not the case here. They talk of
>>>>> grub options and ctrl-alt-F1 to tty. I don't see a grub menu,
>>>>> but could edit grub.cfg if that would help.  I tried
>>>>> ctrl-alt-F1 but that does not bring up a tty.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,  Jim
>>>>>
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