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manu_leo Guru
Joined: 20 Jan 2014 Posts: 513 Location: India
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 6:02 pm Post subject: Screen goes complete black when the server boots up. |
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Hi Experts, I know this is not the right channel to ask question regarding Ubuntu, but because I have so much faith on all of your technical capabilities, I thought of posting it once.
I am not sure what exactly I am missing. I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my Dell server. When the server rebooted after the installation, i see a complete blank screen with black background, no icons, nothing.
However, later I connected to it via ssh which works just fine and then I installed tightvnc-server and xfce package. I am now able to vnc to it and see the gui.
I tried installing 'ubuntu-desktop' but everytime I do that the server gets stuck in a loop and it keeps on restarting.
Here are my server info -
Ubuntu - 14.04
root@euclid:~# lspci | grep VGA
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK106GL [Quadro K4000] (rev a1)
0a:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. G200eR2
I saw some errors regarding the GNU settings n Nvidia, so I uninstalled the NVIDIA drivers from the server using :-
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
Now I am getting a Kernel Panic error. I am completely stuck here. Have tried all the resources from my end and need your expert advice,
Thanks and Appreciate all your help in advance. |
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Roman_Gruber Advocate
Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 3846 Location: Austro Bavaria
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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Some kernels do not work very well with userspace utils. I had it here too recently.
kernel + userspace utils + xorg-server needs to work together.
I highly recommend that you use a stable kernel org release like 3.10.x and stable xorg-server with related gpu driver, that should work
Because things are changing always only a few kenrels work with a few releases of those packages flawless in my expierence.
On a second thought: why dont you use binary nvidia-driver with ubuntu stock kernel?
you may end up in building your own kernel with appropriate settings and than pull in the relevant packages for your gpu and the xorg-server manually. |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54098 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Desktop Environments to Unsupported Software.
To avoid Gentoo users being mislead _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail. |
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