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View Full Version : [SOLVED] Blank screen after installing 10.4



rickbeton
May 2nd, 2010, 04:03 PM
Hi,

I had difficulty installing Lucid on one of my PCs because it wouldn't display the X screen after booting up. Blank display. Monitor goes into power-save mode. Even the live CD didn't work properly.

I managed to install 10.4 using the alternative CD, but I still had the blank screen problem. When I booted from a recovery disc and inspected the log files I didn't find any errors.

So I was puzzled.

There are so many posts on this topic but very few with useful answers. But I managed to solve my problem - in my case it was easy.

My graphics card has two DVI outputs. Only one of them works for Ubuntu (although both work for Win7). So the solution, in my case, was simply to plug into the connector that works.

If your graphics card has two DVI ports and you have a blank screen problem, it would be a good idea to at least try the other DVI port.

Rick