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Hello. After some updates my notebook screen look like this
But screen is working fine in Windows and in uboot, but after Mint is loaded it is not working.
Updates Manager says that my system is up to date. How I can fix it?
Thanks.
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f00kat wrote: ⤴Fri Nov 19, 2021 3:12 pm
Hello. After some updates my notebook screen look like this ...
Updates Manager says that my system is up to date. How I can fix it?
Welcome to the forum, f00kat.
What kind of updates did you do?
Please use your install usb and boot into a live session of Mint to give us information about your hardware. Please give us information about your install by entering this command in a terminal: inxi -Fxxxrz
Click </> from the mini toolbar above the textbox where you type your reply and then place your cursor between the code markers and paste the results of the command between the code markers [code]Results[/code]. This will let us know how Mint sees your hardware.
What do you have installed from this repo? The graphic drivers for your computer are in the kernel and load automatically. There is nothing additional to add.
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graphics-drivers-ppa-focal.list
1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu focal main
That is the only thing that seemed a little odd to me in your data.
Do you take Timeshift snapshots? If you have one from before the updates happened, then I suggest rolling back to it and then letting us know which updates come up to be installed so we can determine what might have caused the issue. What you are seeing is unusual.
Sorry I don't remember.
I deleted this repo and some video drivers from there but it doesn't help.
Do you take Timeshift snapshots?
No, I did not
I need to reinstall the system?
Also yesterday I downloaded the last Mint image and boot from usb. All works fine. Maybe there is some diff tool which helps me to realize the difference between systems?
f00kat wrote: ⤴Wed Dec 01, 2021 1:59 amAlso yesterday I downloaded the last Mint image and boot from usb. All works fine. Maybe there is some diff tool which helps me to realize the difference between systems?
Unfortunately, I am not aware of a diff tool that might help for this situation. The amdgpu graphics drivers, which run both your laptop screen and your external monitor, install and load from the kernel. The same driver is used for both screens.
Have you checked in the Display app to see if the resolution and frequency appear to be set to the proper values for the laptop screen?
We could check the X Server log to see if it has any error messages or anomalies.
Please use this command in a terminal to upload the X Server log file to termbin: cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | nc termbin.com 9999
It will return with a url address that you can post in your next reply.
Hi, I have the same problem on my Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3.
I think it's something related with the kernel 5.13 and the Nvidia drivers / Renoir Drivers.
At the moment I'm using the kernel 5.11 and everything is working fine.
Meanwhile I'm trying to solve the problem so I can use the new kernel.
ausiasbcn wrote: ⤴Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:21 pm
Hi, I have the same problem on my Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3.
I think it's something related with the kernel 5.13 and the Nvidia drivers / Renoir Drivers.
At the moment I'm using the kernel 5.11 and everything is working fine.
Meanwhile I'm trying to solve the problem so I can use the new kernel.
This. I have the same problem with an Asus Zephyrus GA502. Kernel 5.13 does not work at all.
f00kat wrote: ⤴Sun Feb 13, 2022 11:34 am
Today reinstall the latest version Mint(20.3 Uno) and the problem still there even on the default system
I do not remember what your screen originally looked like, but many people with Ryzen 4000 series are having issues with snowy screens with the 5.13 kernel. However, the 5.14-oem kernel fixes the problems.
Install the latest 5.14-oem kernel with sudo apt install linux-oem-20.04d and reboot.
f00kat@f00-pc:~$ sudo apt install linux-oem-20.04d
[sudo] password for f00kat:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-oem-20.04d is already the newest version (5.14.0.1022.19).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
f00kat@f00-pc:~$ uname -a
Linux f00-pc 5.13.0-28-generic #31~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 19 14:08:10 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
In the "Update Manager" window the kernel 5.14 is "Installed" while the 5.13.0.-28 is "Active" and I can't set 5.14 to the Active mode. Maybe this is the reason?
f00kat wrote: ⤴Sun Feb 13, 2022 12:32 pm
Yeah, I selected kernel 5.14 in Grub and it works! Thanks!
The directions I gave were two parts. First was installing the kernel. Second was to reboot which makes it the active kernel.
Linux Mint should automatically boot to the highest number installed kernel which means it should have booted automatically to the 5.14-oem kernel. Is that not happening?
f00kat wrote: ⤴Sun Feb 13, 2022 1:03 pm
No, after reboot(twice) there was still 5.13 and I had choose the 5.14 manually in Grub.
Do you have another Linux-based distro installed on the laptop?
If so, that other distro may be in control of grub and you would have to run sudo update-grub on that distro to get Mint's grub to boot automatically into the 5.14-oem kernel.
