The Dragon Master
April 19th, 2014, 09:58 PM
I have a new HP Zbook. It has an Nvidia Quadro K3100M card.
I had 12.04LTS installed, unity worked fine. I installed nvidia-common. All was OK.
I tried an upgrade to 12.10 and now cannot boot into X (black screen with non-flashing cursor in top left). I can ctrl-alt-f1, ctrl-alt-f2, etc to swap between shells.
startx gives the black screen (with cursor)
I have tried installing nvidia-common.
I have tried purging nvidia-common.
I have also tried
sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
Curiously,
lsb_release - a tells me I have quantal,
but uname -a says
Linux soledad-HP-ZBook-17 3.11.0-15-generic #25~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 30 17:39:31 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I wonder if the reference to precise is a clue or a red-herring?
When I try startx I get
Fatal server error: no screens found
any thhoughts? :confused:
I had 12.04LTS installed, unity worked fine. I installed nvidia-common. All was OK.
I tried an upgrade to 12.10 and now cannot boot into X (black screen with non-flashing cursor in top left). I can ctrl-alt-f1, ctrl-alt-f2, etc to swap between shells.
startx gives the black screen (with cursor)
I have tried installing nvidia-common.
I have tried purging nvidia-common.
I have also tried
sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
Curiously,
lsb_release - a tells me I have quantal,
but uname -a says
Linux soledad-HP-ZBook-17 3.11.0-15-generic #25~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 30 17:39:31 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I wonder if the reference to precise is a clue or a red-herring?
When I try startx I get
Fatal server error: no screens found
any thhoughts? :confused: