Left monitor display becomes garbled

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 at 21:48, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/7/22 15:29, Colin Law wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 at 21:25, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 3/7/22 15:12, Colin Law wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 6 Mar 2022 at 19:28, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Good afternoon,
> >>>>
> >>>>     A short time ago, the left hand monitor display becomes garbled and
> >>>> the only way I have found to get rid of the problem is to power off the
> >>>> system. I say this because my mouse cursor COMPLETELY goes away. I have
> >>>> not tried to get to a tty log in screen via ctl-alt-fn, however, not
> >>>> sure that would work either.
> >>>
> >>> So the left hand monitor was garbled, but the mouse did not appear on
> >>> either display?  Did anything you tried do anything? For example
> >>> tabbing through the open windows, hitting the Win key to get the dash
> >>> (or whatever silly name it has at the moment)? Ctrl-Alt-T to get a
> >>> terminal window?
> >>>
> >>> Colin
> >>>
> >>
> >> Colin,
> >>
> >>    No cursor anywhere. I just shut down and restarted. Next ime I will
> >> try some of the other things.
> >
> > So the whole machine may have crashed.
> >
> > The syslog from then should still be available.  Have a look in there
> > and see what it shows before the reboot.
> >
> > Colin
> >
> NOT MUCHMar  6 12:00:35 polar clamd[964]: Sun Mar  6 12:00:35 2022 ->
> SelfCheck: Database status OK.
> Mar  6 12:16:47 polar systemd[1]: Starting Flush Journal to Persistent
> Storage...
> Mar  6 12:16:47 polar kernel: [    0.000000] microcode: microcode
> updated early to revision 0x28, date = 2019-11-12
> Mar  6 12:16:47 polar systemd[1]: modprobe at drm.service: Succeeded.
> Mar  6 12:16:47 polar systemd[1]: Finished Load Kernel Module drm.

We need a lot more than that.  Give us 100 lines or so before that.

Colin