black screen after boot

[Bob]

** Reply to message from Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> on Sat, 4 Nov 2017
14:04:09 +0100

> On 4 November 2017 at 05:01, Bob <ubuntu-qygzanxc at listemail.net> wrote:
> > I upgraded from 17.04 to 17.10 in a test partition on my laptop a Lenovo T60.
> > When the upgrade was done I rebooted.  The system ran for a while with only a
> > black screen.  Since nothing was happening I entered my password, nothing
> > happened, I pressed some keys, nothing happened, at this point I assumed the
> > upgrade had failed so I pressed the power button.  Pressing the power button
> > caused the moon symbol on the laptop to light, this was a surprise so after the
> > disk activity light stopped blinking I pressed the power button again.  This
> > caused the login screen to display.  I did login and it appears that the system
> > functions properly.
> >
> > Now any time I boot that system it comes up with a black screen and I have to
> > press the power to put the system to sleep and then press the power button
> > again to wake it up and display the login screen.
> >
> > Since I have not seen any messages about anyone having the problem I assume I
> > am the only one with this problem.
> >
> > Anyone have an idea on how to fix this?
> 
> https://www.cnet.com/products/lenovo-thinkpad-t60/specs/
> 
> ATI graphics.
> 
> What desktop? If was Unity, it's now GNOME. GNOME defaults to Wayland.
> Wayland won't work with ATI proprietary display drivers, but I have a
> machine of that age with an ATI Mobility Radeon GPU and it works well
> enough.
> 
> My GPU is no longer supported by fglrx so I didn't have them, but it's
> a different one to yours and I don't know if yours are. Remove any
> trace of them if so.
> 
> Also try adding the "nomodeset" line to your kernel parameters in GRUB.

Thanks, the "nomodeset" got things working.

-- 
Robert Blair


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