16.10.2018 · Hi all, I have been using Linux Mint (Cinnamon desktop) without issue for some time. Today when I started the computer and logged in I was greeted with a black screen and a mouse pointer only, no desktop. I searched and found posts relating to the same issue on Google where a solution has been...
08.12.2021 · Black screen with cursor. Apologies I’m not formatting this properly I am unable to use my main pc and am currently posting this on an iPad. The issue I’m having is that I have rebooted my pc and the display manager isn’t working and is simply showing a black screen with a cursor at the top.
Dec 08, 2021 · The issue I’m having is that I have rebooted my pc and the display manager isn’t working and is simply showing a black screen with a cursor at the top. When I do CTRL+ALT+F3 and issue the startx command I get the following output (I’m just putting the [ee] part as I need to type it all out manually) Issuing the lighten —test-mode ...
27.06.2020 · oumolayna Jul 30, 2019 at 6:02 AM. okay step 1. when you get the black screen and cursor blinking press ALT + F2. step 2. login with your root account. step 3. apt-get install --fix-broken. apt-get update.
22.12.2021 · This is not my first runabout with Linux, I am familiar with the black screen and blinking cursor (I ran into it a lot on Debian), this is not that. Sort of? If I reboot, it does not flash. I can change to tty2 and the rest of the system looks to work as expected. When I …
28.11.2014 · The entire installation process goes well and prompts me to reboot to finish installation. It reboots, I get to the login screen with the drums, it looks like the desktop is going to fire up and then the screen goes black and the only thing active is the mouse pointer. I can access the terminal through Ctrl+Alt+F1.
Oct 14, 2018 · 1) Press 'e' to enter 'edit' mode. 2) In the next screen, use your arrow keys to get near the bottom, on the line that starts with 'linux', and at or near the end shows 'quiet splash' (possibly followed by one or more other commands, and possibly wrapping around onto a 2nd line).
I fumbled around with Nvidia drivers and this black screen issue for two days. And I fell into this pit because of the 14.04 upgrade from 12.04. Grrr! The original issue I was trying to resolve was the high cpu utilization of firefox, compiz & Xorg which made the graphics fairly unusable.
05.05.2019 · Move your cursor down to the line that starts with “linux”, ... 78 Responses to “Ubuntu Linux – Black screen and frozen system after upgrade and/or install ... I had the same issue with release 20.04 LTS black screen could be gotten past with temporary fix listed here but would revert to black screen after login.
I also encountered the black screen with my new installation, and it was a relatively easy fix. Press CTRL - ALT - F3 to trigger the CLI, and, once logged in, type: sudo nano /etc/default/grub. Find the line with the variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, and add nomodeset to the variables, so it looks like this:
31.07.2014 · It worked normally on reboot up until the login screen. I logged in as usual and the screen that was supposed to be my desktop was simply a black screen with a movable cursor. After pressing Ctrl + Alt + Fx, it took me to terminal. I logged in fine and tried several commands to no avail, including: Code: startx.
23.02.2020 · I have VirtualBox with two working virtual machines(VM): Windows and Linux Mint. I created new VM for the latest Linux Mint 19.3 which was installed successfully but after reboot the screen was black. No matter of changing or resizing the window. I …
Jul 31, 2014 · Visit szboardstretcher's homepage! Ctrl + Alt + F (1-6) takes me to a terminal. F7 takes me to the black cursor screen and the rest do nothing. Does suggest that perhaps there is an issue with the video driver, because AIGLX is the open source AMD driver.
16.02.2020 · I've installed Linux Mint on my laptop a short while ago and it has a persistent issue that I could not fix. Unless I login into rendering mode, my Mint laptop shows up a black screen with the cursor. I saw that many people encountered this issue, but reinstalling Mint, Nvidia drivers or repairing dpkg packages in recovery mode did not work for me.
Feb 11, 2020 · Unless I login into rendering mode, my Mint laptop shows up a black screen with the cursor. I saw that many people encountered this issue, but reinstalling Mint, Nvidia drivers or repairing dpkg packages in recovery mode did not work for me. I'm using an Asus TUF gaming laptop with 500GB SSD, 16GB Ram, Nvidia GeForce 1650 and an AMD Ryzen 7.