Ubuntu :: Screen Blank And Clock Goes Off
Mar 1, 2010I was just surfing the web the screen suddenly went blank and then the clock went off.
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Ubuntu Installation :: Blank Screen: 10.04, ATI Radeon 9550 / X Tries To Load Screen Just Goes Blank?
May 9, 2010I am having the same problem, as soon as X tries to load my screen just goes blank. I have an ATI Radeon 9550. At first I tried switching between VGA and DVI as well but upon ruling that out, I switch to my on-board video card and that is working thus far, but I'm trying very hard to figure out a way to be able to switch back. Anyways I'll check back in later on if I have any new information I will post.
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May 17, 2010When i use my computer (whether it's going online, typing, playing a flash game, or coding) I get these "Black Flashes" that are becoming longer and more frequent. A "Black Flash" is when my computer screen turns blank (but you can still see the backlight) and i have to press the NUMpad ENTER button, shake my mouse furiously, or click my mouse, which sometimes causes undesired actions, but gets me my screen back. sometimes the Black Flashes last a milisecond or 5 seconds or i have to hold the power button and restart because it won't come back on.
Specs:
Toshiba P205-S6337 Laptop
Ubuntu Karmic Koala
2.39 GB of RAM
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Ubuntu Installation :: 10.10 Image Not Loading - Flash Screen On Blank Screen
Dec 26, 2010Is there a known problem with the Lubuntu 10.10 image here? I have downloaded it to two different computers, then burned the images to two different blank CD's (different brands) and neither loads. Both only get as far as the Lubuntu menu, once ENTER is pressed at that point to load the LiveCD, a blank screen eventually appears with a flashing cursor at the upper left of the screen, that's it. They were both burned using the slowest burn speeds available.
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Jan 26, 2011The day started as usual until I got the very bright idea to install Ubuntu. A new OS along side W7, that sounded great. I checked some guides on the Internet, it was all very straight forward. Install it and Grub will show you the OS:es when you boot up. I installed Ubuntu, rebooted. After the BIOS messages the screen goes blank and my screen on-button begins to blink, as if trying to find a signal, I press enter, it reboots instantly. After BIOS messages I get to a screen that says "GRUB error: uknown filesystem grub rescue>"
I've looked through everything here and nothing works. I've tried to fix the mbr-thingy using Windows Repair and even though it says "one partition was updated with new boot-thingy" when I reboot, I get into that very same grub rescue. I think my setup has something to do with it. I run RAID0 (2x360Gb hard drives), first having C: at 50Gb and then the rest as F: for programs and such. What I did was that I shrunk the F: part and then used that as partition for Ubuntu. Also please have a look at these screenshots, my partitiontables and such seems completely wacky to the raid: Where should the boot-loader go? I'm very, very new at this. I've had Ubuntu Netbook remix on my netbook for a time but still treat me as an utter beginner.
Ubuntu :: Xubuntu Black Screen / Blank Screen Using Live CD?
Oct 9, 2010I'm trying to test out using xubuntu 10.04 on my one computer and keep getting a black/blank screen after selecting the 'try' menu option.Is there a way to fix this?I have tried some of settings via F6 with no luck.
FYI -The CD works fine as I have tested it on other machines.The version I am trying is xubuntu x86 (although I have tried ubuntu 10.04 x86 with similar results).I can Alt+Ctrl+F1 fine and get to the cmd prompt
Ubuntu :: Blank Screen On Boot / Very Fast Plymouth Screen
Jan 14, 2011I fixed this issue on 10.04, but just recently (1 hour ago) upgraded to 10.10 and am having the same issue. Machine boots fine, but the screen is blank for most of the boot, and plymouth is up for about a half second before I get to the login screen.I've tried searching the threads, but for the life of me I can't find the solution and can't remember what I did to fix it on Lucid.
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Apr 15, 2011like any other Linux newb, I came to Ubuntu because my Windows crashed one time too many. And I chose Ubuntu because "it just works". But these past few days that hasn't been true. I'm posting this from a netbook with Ubuntu, and am having no problems whatsoever, but normally I use an Acer Aspire 5920G laptop. I'll include the specs as written on the sticker:
* Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5250 (1.5GHz etc)
* Up to 1024 MB Nvidia Geforce 8600M GS Turbocache
* 2 GB DDR2
Let me know if you need more details, and I'll add them later. Now, what happened was I clicked "hibernate" while leaving Firefox open. (I've done this hundreds of times, no problem) And when I went to turn it back on the next day there were weird graphical glitches in the loading screen, and it booted to the "tty1" prompt screen. I did a lot of googling and found quite a few posts about it, but the solutions either didn't work, or I didn't understand them. After trying several different suggestions from this forum and others, I managed to delete the graphics drivers. That enabled me to boot in low graphics mode, and naturally, I tried a whole bunch of things to make it work properly again. That only made it worse. Now it went straight from the loading screen to just blanking out and turning the display off. So, I tried new things. Over and over. The weird thing is even when I disconnected my harddrive and ran from a Live USB, the problem persisted. Could there be an issue with the graphics card itself? Anyway, after reconnecting the harddrive I tried to boot again. And it suddenly worked. Even HDMI to my bigger screen worked.
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Ubuntu Installation :: Get The 10.10 Splash Screen For A Second Then A Blank Screen?
Dec 22, 2010I have been running 10.04 quite successfully, when I upgraded to 10.10, I have a problem with the newer kernels. If I let it boot into the latest one 2.6.35-23, I get the Ubuntu 10.10 splash screen for a second then a blank screen, same with 2.6.35-22. I have to run with 32-25 to get it to load the gui.
I have an AMD Sempron 2800, 1.6GHz pc, but I'm not sure if it's running 64bit.
Ubuntu Installation :: Freeze/Blank Screen After Screen Off 11.04?
May 4, 2011I've been running Ubuntu 10.10 very smoothly for a while now. Decided to upgrade to 11.04 - managed to corrupt the hard disk the first time by letting the laptop hibernate part of the way through but reinstalled from a live CD of 11.04 and it's now working except for this issue.
If I shut the screen on my laptop (or press the screen off button) either the screen won't come back on or it will but frozen (I can move the mouse but not click on anything etc.) In this state music continues to play (from spotify under wine) and if I press my hibernate shortcut (power button) the computer hibernates, only to wake into the same situation. I've got a Dell Latitude D520, upgraded to a bigger hard disk and more ram - the ubuntu partition has 50gb. Windows is working fine.
Edit: I noticed a sticky thread which includes something about a blank screen but I think this is a different issue?
Ubuntu :: GTX 460M: Clock Changes Make Screen Flicker?
Dec 6, 2010My G73JW works really great except for 1 thing. A change in the performance level causes short black flickering on the display, which is absolutely inacceptable (e.g. with compiz). Setting the preferred mode to "performance" locks the performance level and helps but seems like a bad solution (batter life and heat).
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Jan 11, 2011i have just put a Geforce 7300 GT graphic card into my machine the problem is the max resolution I can get is 1024x768 at 60 hz the screen is a benq fp71g+. also the screen goes blank when i click on the display icon in system settings. i know that the screen can be run at 1280x1024 so I don?t know where the problem is.
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Sep 13, 2010I've recently done a clean install from Karmic to Lucid, everything went well first time, although I noticed that my GPU performance seemed to drop. It wasn't amazing to begin with being an older AGP card (nvidia 6800GT), but it was enough of a drop to make me look for a solution.
I thought maybe the drivers in Lucid were to blame so I recently added the ubuntu-x-swat PPA
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to get the most up to date drivers.
Performance didn't go up, so I tried the 173 version of the drivers to see if that would help, but I had no luck.
Today I'm pretty sure I downloaded an update from the above PPA and since then every time I change the clock speeds (via the Coolbits option within nvidia-settings) on my card I get a black screen, there is no response from any input device and I have to hold the power button to turn off the PC.
I want to know if there is anyway to check recent packages I've downloaded, and also if anyone could shed some light as to why changing the clock speeds of the card would result in a black screen and no response from the keyboard or mouse.
I'd also like to point out, that I've been changing the clock speeds of the card since I first installed Karmic with no problem. Additionally before I downloaded today's updates, even with the new packages from the above PPA changing the clock speeds worked perfectly. It seems that something I downloaded is to blame.
Ubuntu :: Conky Clock And Top Panel Clock Not In Sync
May 27, 2011I'm using a very simple conky script to diplay the date and time on my desktop. I've noticed that he conky clock is a few seconds early compared to the time displayed in the right hand side of the top panel (Natty). I guess both displays are based on the same "internal" time, so I'm left wondering how this could happen, and how to sync back the clocks.
It seems that Conky is in sync with the system date, while the panel clock is 2 seconds late (on my system). Checked with while true; do date; sleep 0.1; done
Ubuntu :: Possible To Have Clock In Center Of Task Bar Centered Clock In U11.04?
Aug 2, 2011Just curious as to if it is possible to have the clock in the center of the task bar centered clock in Ubuntu 11.04?
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Apr 30, 2011I just installed Moonlight but except for the clock that starts running, buffering and connecting to the video server nothing else works.The screen stays grey and there is no sound. I thought it might work when I install Java applet, but also that doesn't fix.
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Jul 8, 2011I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 along side windows 7 ultimate. But the problem is as soon as I switch on my computer. There is only a blank screen with my TFT screen displaying a msg "Out of Range"
Then suddenly Ubuntu loads without showing any option to load windows 7.
Hardware :: Interface To A Quartz Clock That Can Be Used For A TOD Clock?
May 2, 2011Does anyone know of an interface to a quartz clock that can be used for a TOD clock?? I want to interface it to an Arduino board. Can be GPIO or USB.
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Sep 2, 2011I had cloned a centos 5.6 installation from virtualbox virtual machine to physical box. Everything work fine. However, the time showing in os using date command differs from bios time by roughly 4 hours. I am running ntp services which sync the time with another centos server on the network. It appears that some services are using virtual clock and some use physical clock. How do I get rid of virtual clock and only use physical clock?
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Jul 17, 2010My problem is that I can't log in to Ubuntu, as you've already seen in the title. Here's what's happening:
I turn on the computer. I see the GRUB. I press Enter. I see a blinking underscore (_) as if i was in a terminal. The underscore disappears and I can see my cursor, but nothing else. I can move the cursor, but that's all I can do.
I've seen some similar problem here on the forums, but he could log in, he just couldn't see the screen.roblem!
Ubuntu :: Blank Screen On Ctl-alt-F1?
May 1, 2011OS: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-31-generic. All updates are current.
Configuration -CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K, quad core 3.30GHz
Memory: 16GB RAM (10% used), 20GB swap-space (0% used)
Video: Two ASUS EAH5450 Silent cards, each with ATI Radeon HD-5450 GPU and 512 MB
Monitors: Sceptre 22", 1680x1050; both connected to one video card. The second video card has no monitors connected at this time.
ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX driverLSPCI output -
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The PC boots up normally into Gnome desktop environment. When I hit ctl-alt-[F1-F6], -The screens blank out. One screen gets no video signal, as evidenced by a blinking power light The other screen is completely blank (not even a blinking cursor) If I hit ctl-alt-F7, I get the Gnome desktop back. I have been able to determine that even if the screen is blank, and appears completely dead, the system processes my keystrokes. For example, if I pretend that I am at the log-in screen and type <username> <enter>, then <password><enter>, then 'xinit -fg white -bg blue -- :1 vt8'<enter>, the PC switches to virtual terminal 8, and shows a shell window. From that point onwards, my keyboard entries show up in white-on-blue characters, and the behavior of this shell window is perfectly normal. I can log into another Linux box using ssh, start a Gnome / KDE / XFCE4 / LXDE session and work on the machine normally; or start another X-session and a desktop environment of my choice. My guess is, the console is invoked perfectly well; it is set to display black-on-black characters.
What I Am Looking For:Confirm if my guess about black-on-black console is valid.
Suggest how I could get a screen showing white characters on black (or indeed, any combination I could read)
Ubuntu :: The Screen Goes Blank After Startup?
Jan 3, 2010I've recently installed the 64bit version of WUBI on ASUS K50IJ with windows 7. Everything went smooth however when I try to boot into ubuntu, it shows that all the drivers are loading, I can even see the desktop background image for a second and then the screen goes blank. It is still ON however nothing is showing on it.
Pressing "CTRL+ALT+DEL" reboot the system.
even get access to the console for further debugging?
Ubuntu :: Blank Screen After GNU Grub
Feb 20, 2010Anyway one day I start my computer and instead of starting normally it comes up with a screen which says GNU GRUB version 1.97~beta at the top. I selected the option Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-19-generic as I figured this is what normally loads without being prompted in the grub menu, but after this I got the ubuntu logo for a few seconds then my screen goes blank. My laptop is a hp510.
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Feb 23, 2010I'm a newbie so apologies if there is a trivial answer to this.
I (maybe somewhat rashly) tried to connect my tv to my laptop (Dell Latitude D400) running Ubuntu 9.10.
I plugged in the cable, went to the System>Display menu, where it had detected the model and make of tv (Samsung 19" LCD) (I think the resolution was 1650 x 1050 or similar). I clicked the box to activate the second monitor with the "Virtual resolution" adjusted. It told me to log out then log back in.
I accordingly logged out but then couldn't log back in. It had evidently changed the resolution not only on the 2nd monitor but also on the laptop monitor. A box was visible on screen but completely illegible/unclear since the laptop monitor couldn't display that resolution.
After a few restarts and button pushes it is now restarting at a terminal (I enter my username/password at a command prompt on an otherwise blank screen rather than the graphical interface loading up).
Question: are there any commands that could change the resolution back to its original settings then restart the Ubuntu graphic interface? Some thing similar to the "load with last known good configuration settings" option in Windows maybe.
Ubuntu :: Not Starting - Blank Screen ?
Apr 23, 2010My ubuntu isn't starting up today. I can't remember anything unusual happening last night, not even a standard system update.
It presents me with the Grub loader, screen goes blank, and that's as much as I get. I have gone into a recovery mode through the grub loader, and that gives me a bit more info, but I don't know what to do with the information it is giving me.
It says: Gave up waiting for root device. common problems (etc) ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/<long name> does not exist. Dropping to a shell.
It is right - the /dev/disk/.... does not exist. A different file with an equally long filename does exist
Ubuntu :: 10.04 LiveCD - No GUI (Blank Screen)
May 3, 2010Last week I very eagerly downloaded Ubuntu 10.04 and burnt it to a CD. I just want to try out the new version using the Live-CD. I tried it on both my home desktop and my work notebook. I was able to get the initial screen where I can select the language and keyboard, etc.. But when I tried to start the program I ended up with a blank screen one both computers.
So I just thought, I will wait until they get these problems fixed then I will download and burn a new cd. Question, have their been fixes to the ISO file since it first was released that would fix these kind of problem? How does one know if the ISO file has been upgraded; is there something after the 10.04.01 or something like that?
Ubuntu Installation :: 10.04 64-bit Blank Screen - ATI GPU?
Jul 19, 2010So finally decided to upgrade the desktop (dual-booting with Windows 7 for games) from 9.10 (fresh install awhile ago, never did anything with it) to 10.04 - upgrade went fine, reboot, watch grub go by, and voila. Blank screen.
Things I tried in grub:
add 'xforcevesa'
add 'xforcevesa' & remove 'quiet splash'
add 'nomodeset' & remove 'quiet splash'
add 'nomodeset xforcevesa' & remove 'quiet splash'
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I was hoping to test out Windows 7 in a VM, see how far I could get for GPU acceleration there - I'd much rather not run Windows on the bare iron for that machine, but if I can't get this fixed I have no option :-/
Ubuntu :: Blank Screen On Upgrade To 10.10?
Oct 23, 2010I have an HP 2730pAfter upgrade i have a blank screen. i don't get a splash screen and i can't alt+ctrl+F6 to get extra terminal.Unfortunately i can't ssh into the box either since i don't have openssh-server installed.Is there anything i can do short of taking the harddrive out and putting it into another box?
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Nov 13, 2010Just upgraded from Karmic to Lucid.. Everything was running smoothly except compositing so I enabled the Open Source Edge repos and downloaded the latest driver my card (a ati radeon x1650). I rebooted to a bios splash and then nothing.. blank screen. After about 4 seconds of nothing the monitor flicks on showing the kubuntu bootsplash for a split second then blank again.ctrl + alt + f$ isn't displaying a tty for meI'm not getting the usual grub menu on startup (esc isnt bringing it up)(it's a usb keyboard enabled in the bios)
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Nov 16, 2010I have dabbled with Linux in the past. Previously I have failed to get various important parts of my laptop to work under Ubuntu, but that one died, so I decided it was time to try again.
It seemed to work on the liveCD, so I went for the install, which also seemed to go ok, but when I start up, I get to log in, then it stops. Plays the start-up sound, displays a blank desktop background, but nothing else...