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pmowry911
June 1st, 2020, 05:39 PM
Good day,
After a power outage I had a PC with a discrete video card die so I move the HD over to a PC with an Intel i5 with integrated video. The original pc had both nvidia and an amd card in it at some point.

The behavior I have now is tty1 opens to a blank screen with a cursor flashing in the top left. if I switch to tty5 to login, it is pulled back to tty1 pretty quickly. I can SSH in I dont really know were to look for logs to troubleshoot. Based off of web searches I've tried :
sudo apt-get remove amdgpu-pro
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-intel
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel
sudo apt-get purge xserver-xorg-amdgpu*

cd /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/
sudo mv 10-amdgpu.conf ~/
sudo mv 10-radeon.conf ~/
sudo mv nvidia-drm-outputclass-ubuntu.conf ~/

sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

sudo apt-get install -reinstall gdm3 gnome-shell
sudo apt-get install --reinstall gdm3 gnome-shell

where do i go to troubleshoot this boot problem I assume is caused by the change in video card even though the whole machine changed.

Thank you,

Edit: Forgot to mention that I had upgraded to 20.04. Pretty sure that gdm3 is in charge, but i donr see logs for it and I dont know if/how X11 or Wayland are involved with a normal install.

pmowry911
June 18th, 2020, 11:38 PM
Update: My problem was a problem with no access to the password for autologin causing a loop. Turned autologin off and i was working at 640x480. Put the nvidia drivers back and I'm all good. Well, except for the dead power supply in the original system