March 19/20 update broke my system.
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March 19/20 update broke my system.
After doing updates this weekend I did a log out, then I got a black screen. Reboot, same thing just after the GDM3 text. So I booted recovery and meant to rename xorg.conf. Using the wrong command I deleted it. But I got Gnome back in low res and reinstalled the AMD Catalyst drivers, so for so good, and I did not need the Clonezilla CD either
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Using Mint since 2008
*Mint 18.2 KDE
*ASUS 970 PRO GAMING/AURA AM3+ AMD 970 + SB 950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1
*AMD FX-8370 with AMD Wraith cooler Vishera 8-Core 4.0 GHz (4.3 GHz Turbo)
*G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB DDR3 SDRAM
*nVIDIA GEFORCE GT 610 2GB
*Mint 18.2 KDE
*ASUS 970 PRO GAMING/AURA AM3+ AMD 970 + SB 950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1
*AMD FX-8370 with AMD Wraith cooler Vishera 8-Core 4.0 GHz (4.3 GHz Turbo)
*G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB DDR3 SDRAM
*nVIDIA GEFORCE GT 610 2GB
Re: March 19/20 update broke my system.
Thanks for the info. I got exactly the same black screen and renaming xorg.conf solved it.
Re: March 19/20 update broke my system.
So, did you reinstall the video drivers? Another thing that happened was all my printers were gone, I had to reinstall my printer, and my CUPS PDF printer as well.marlar wrote:Thanks for the info. I got exactly the same black screen and renaming xorg.conf solved it.
Using Mint since 2008
*Mint 18.2 KDE
*ASUS 970 PRO GAMING/AURA AM3+ AMD 970 + SB 950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1
*AMD FX-8370 with AMD Wraith cooler Vishera 8-Core 4.0 GHz (4.3 GHz Turbo)
*G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB DDR3 SDRAM
*nVIDIA GEFORCE GT 610 2GB
*Mint 18.2 KDE
*ASUS 970 PRO GAMING/AURA AM3+ AMD 970 + SB 950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1
*AMD FX-8370 with AMD Wraith cooler Vishera 8-Core 4.0 GHz (4.3 GHz Turbo)
*G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB DDR3 SDRAM
*nVIDIA GEFORCE GT 610 2GB
Re: March 19/20 update broke my system.
Yes, I reinstalled the ATI driver and it worked fine.
I have no printers installed so I can't tell if that was the case for me too.
I have no printers installed so I can't tell if that was the case for me too.
Re: March 19/20 update broke my system.
I think this is the same problem that I'm having as my laptop has an AMD processor and ATI card, and the screen goes blank after entering password at the log in screen. My other LMDE machine seems to be fine.rdonnelly wrote:After doing updates this weekend I did a log out, then I got a black screen. Reboot, same thing just after the GDM3 text. So I booted recovery and meant to rename xorg.conf. Using the wrong command I deleted it. But I got Gnome back in low res and reinstalled the AMD Catalyst drivers, so for so good, and I did not need the Clonezilla CD either
I'm not too comfortable with the command line and don't want to destroy my system, so could someone please give some pointers as to what to type in recovery mode to rename xorg.conf and reinstall the video drivers?
Re: March 19/20 update broke my system.
Boot into recovery mode from grub and enter your password when it asks.madwoollything wrote: I think this is the same problem that I'm having as my laptop has an AMD processor and ATI card, and the screen goes blank after entering password at the log in screen. My other LMDE machine seems to be fine.
I'm not too comfortable with the command line and don't want to destroy my system, so could someone please give some pointers as to what to type in recovery mode to rename xorg.conf and reinstall the video drivers?
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cd /etc/X11
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rm xorg.conf
reboot and reinstall the drivers for the desktop, good link here http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Debian
Using Mint since 2008
*Mint 18.2 KDE
*ASUS 970 PRO GAMING/AURA AM3+ AMD 970 + SB 950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1
*AMD FX-8370 with AMD Wraith cooler Vishera 8-Core 4.0 GHz (4.3 GHz Turbo)
*G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB DDR3 SDRAM
*nVIDIA GEFORCE GT 610 2GB
*Mint 18.2 KDE
*ASUS 970 PRO GAMING/AURA AM3+ AMD 970 + SB 950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1
*AMD FX-8370 with AMD Wraith cooler Vishera 8-Core 4.0 GHz (4.3 GHz Turbo)
*G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB DDR3 SDRAM
*nVIDIA GEFORCE GT 610 2GB
Re: March 19/20 update broke my system.
Thanks but there is no xorg.conf file listed in the /etc/X11 directory in LMDE.rdonnelly wrote:
Boot into recovery mode from grub and enter your password when it asks.
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cd /etc/X11
hit enterCode: Select all
rm xorg.conf
reboot and reinstall the drivers for the desktop, good link here http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Debian
rm: cannot remove 'xorg.conf':no such file or directory
I've checked on my other machine and can only find xorg.conf listed under 'examples' in a completely different location. Doesn't look like this fix will work for me. I'm using LMDE 64 bit on Toshiba Satellite c660.
Re: March 19/20 update broke my system.
Try
in recovery mode, if that don't work you are going to hope an expert posts. But it seems that update changed the kernel, and that affects the AMD install.
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Xorg --configure
Using Mint since 2008
*Mint 18.2 KDE
*ASUS 970 PRO GAMING/AURA AM3+ AMD 970 + SB 950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1
*AMD FX-8370 with AMD Wraith cooler Vishera 8-Core 4.0 GHz (4.3 GHz Turbo)
*G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB DDR3 SDRAM
*nVIDIA GEFORCE GT 610 2GB
*Mint 18.2 KDE
*ASUS 970 PRO GAMING/AURA AM3+ AMD 970 + SB 950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1
*AMD FX-8370 with AMD Wraith cooler Vishera 8-Core 4.0 GHz (4.3 GHz Turbo)
*G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB DDR3 SDRAM
*nVIDIA GEFORCE GT 610 2GB
Re: March 19/20 update broke my system.
Thanks ..... no joy .... wait and see if anyone else posts with 64 AMD install.rdonnelly wrote:Try
in recovery mode, if that don't work you are going to hope an expert posts. But it seems that update changed the kernel, and that affects the AMD install.Code: Select all
Xorg --configure
In Ubuntu I'd be able to go back to a previous kernel but you don't seem to have that option with LMDE.