[xubuntu-users] No display on boot-up

[Alex Johns]

On 6/17/24 18:23, David Wright wrote:
>
> On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 at 19:28, Alex Johns <chris352011 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     On 6/16/24 03:15, David Wright wrote:
>>
>>     On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 at 02:12, Phil <phillor9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>         On 6/14/24 22:00, David Wright wrote:
>>         > Hi all
>>         >
>>         > On Saturday 8th June, I booted up my PC and it was fine for
>>         the couple
>>         > of hours of use.
>>         >
>>         > Next boot-up on Monday 10th June, the monitor showed no
>>         display
>>         > found.  I forced a reboot into recovery mode and then it
>>         booted fine.
>>
>>         I had exactly the same problem and this is how I solved it:
>>
>>         Edit /etc/default/grub
>>
>>         GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quiet splash'
>>
>>         Change to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quiet'
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>>         sudo update-grub
>>
>>         -- 
>>
>>         Regards,
>>         Phil
>>
>>
>>
>>     Many thanks for the quick reply Phil, unfortunately that's not
>>     worked for me.  Same result, black screen and have to force a
>>     reboot into recovery mode.
>>
>>     Hopefully there are other ideas?
>>
>>     Kind regards
>>     David
>>
>
>     Are you using a commercial display driver  eg Nvidia or Radeon, if
>     so edit the grub line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=  and  add no
>     acpi to the end of that line. taking out the 'quiet' so you can
>     see the boot process and where it might be hanging up.
>
>     See if it will boot then and if it doesn't boot to the desktop and
>     your your still looking at a black screen then do a ctrl  F1 and
>     at the terminal type sudo purge Nvidiia*.*  or the Radeon equivalent.
>
>     see if that helps.  It will knock out the commercial graphics
>     drivers and let Wayland take over.   I always remove quiet splash
>     from the grub CMDLINE as I prefer to see any issues as the machine
>     boots.
>
>
>     Good luck
>
>
>     Chris da kiwi
>
>     -- 
>
> Hi Chris
>
> No commercial drivers in use here.  No dedicated graphics card at all. 
> just use the onboard which is more than sufficient for my needs.
>
> Many thanks
> Dave
>
>
Can I suggest then that you try editing the line I suggested and 
removing quiet splash and adding nomodset noacpi  in the past that has 
solved many boot issues for me

good luck

cheers Chris
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