emacs window a solid black block after a distribution upgrade

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 17:25, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Interestingly enough, I do use Ventoy. and hope to summon the strength to try Xubuntu sometime soon.

:-)

>> Look at the back: does the monitor plug into the motherboard, or into
>> a card in an expansion slot?
>
> The monitor plugs directly into the motherboard.

Aha.

Is there any place in the expansion slots to connect a monitor?

If not, it sounds like the machine shipped with an AMD card, and maybe
either it was an optional extra, or it was removed from yours. :-(

Shame.

An old cast-off PCI-E display adaptor may work better for you, and it
will also give you more free memory, because currently the chipset
video is using some of the main system RAM for the display.

I have several old ones lying around -- but they are in Prague and I
am now in the Isle of Man.

> When I upgraded its RAM from 2GiB to 4GiB, I had to temporarily install Windows and run the update. It looks like I have the latest update:-
> BIOS Version 1.0.18 02/24/2009

Aha! Well, that's good, and it's one less thing to do.

> Well, I pressed the Windows/Super key, typed in Drivers. It ran Software & Updates and it reports "No additional drivers available" and
> "No proprietary drivers are in use"

That's good, I guess. Nothing needed there, then.

>> It's not so much, but if X11 gets Firefox working, then just use X11.
>
> Yes, I will do that, thank you.

The Wayland developers are in deep denial about this, but it still
doesn't have anything much to offer many (most?) ordinary users.

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