On Wednesday 10 June 2015 22:13:21 Bret Busby wrote: > On 11/06/2015, Nick T. <n...@ncktsp.com> wrote: > > nomodeset goes inside the quotes derp :P > > > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nomodeset" > > > > - Nick > > > > On 06/10/2015 11:23 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 11/06/2015, Nick T. <n...@ncktsp.com> wrote: > >>> Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to > >>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT save exit and run update-grub as root. > >>> > >>> - Nick > > Okay. > > I did that, and then rebooted. > > System -> Preferences -> Monitors still did not find the external monitor. > > In that menu path, down from Monitors, was an entry,something like > nVidia xserver settings, so I selected that. > > I got a dialogue box, with something like "You appear to be not using > the nVidia driver. Run nvidia-xconfig as root and restart xserver." > > So, I ran nvidia-xconfig as root, and got a message something like "No > xserver.cfg file found. Creating new xserver.cfg file." > > When that had completed, I rebooted the system. > > Now, no xwindows operates on the system. > > It goes through the text based boot reporting, and then I get a black > screen, with the underscore flashing cursor, in the top left of the > screen. > > After a few minutes, that is unchanged. > > So, all I can do, is invoke <CTRL><ALT><F1> to go to a console, and > reboot into another operating system. > > Now, I have to giveup again, for a few hours. > > So near (?) and yet so far (now broken system - no xwindows operable).
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