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Title: 12.04 black screen
Post by: Esperanto on March 15, 2014, 01:57:37 PM
On my MD I often get a black screen. I can still press F7 to show the menu but the content that was showing is not visible anymore. Any suggestions?
Title: Re: 12.04 black screen
Post by: Esperanto on March 27, 2014, 09:39:30 AM
anyone else experiencing this? So the screensaver disappears and I get a black screen. Then I press F7 and the menu shows again properly. When I select a menu item the next item disappears immediately again and so I am looking at a black screen again.

My MD is running on a asus at3iont http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/ASUS_AT3IONT
Title: Re: 12.04 black screen
Post by: pigdog on March 27, 2014, 12:31:41 PM
Hi,

What version of 12.04 are you running?

Regards
Title: Re: 12.04 black screen
Post by: Esperanto on March 27, 2014, 01:10:18 PM
Hi pigdog,

thx for your reply. Is there any way to find that on the install? I don't have the iso anymore.
Title: Re: 12.04 black screen
Post by: pigdog on March 27, 2014, 05:47:20 PM
Hi,

In webadmin it used to be under installation but I don't see it there anymore...

...maybe I was thinking of somewhere else, but I don't think so.

Anyway you can always go into webadmin > advanced > software > Software versions and with "Core" selected as which computer? scroll down to the LMCE packages and you should see the build date.

It will be something like X.X.X.XX.14032328853 meaning - I believe - 2014 Mar. 23 28853 build.

Cheers.
Title: Re: 12.04 black screen
Post by: Esperanto on March 27, 2014, 06:37:31 PM
Most are 2.0.0.46.14030128788 on my core while my md has a lot of 2.0.0.46.13032527365 also. you suggest to sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade the MD first?
Title: Re: 12.04 black screen
Post by: pigdog on March 27, 2014, 06:58:02 PM
Hi,

Unfortunately the 28788 release is no longer in the snapshots.

Have you been doing updates/upgrades on your core?
Title: Re: 12.04 black screen
Post by: Esperanto on March 27, 2014, 07:32:20 PM
jes. I did apt-get upgrade a few times. Also I use the latests kernel on the core (not on the MDs)
Title: Re: 12.04 black screen
Post by: pigdog on March 27, 2014, 07:58:24 PM
Hi,

I've been testing the latest snapshots and there has been some networking issues.

Since you aren't having any Core issues I guess it would be OK to update/upgrade the MD.

If anything major occurred you could always delete the MD and then recreate the MD from the Core software.
Title: Re: 12.04 black screen
Post by: pigdog on March 27, 2014, 08:00:29 PM
Hi again,

If it is only the screensaver that times out and you lose the Flickr screen what about turning the screensaver off?
Title: Re: 12.04 black screen
Post by: Esperanto on March 27, 2014, 08:45:43 PM
Its also the menu. When I click an item on the menu (say power) then the power screen also disappears. I am upgrading as we speak and will see if it makes a difference.

thx thus far.
Title: Re: 12.04 black screen
Post by: pigdog on March 27, 2014, 09:14:59 PM
OK,

Let us know what happens.

Good Luck.
Title: Re: 12.04 black screen
Post by: Esperanto on March 28, 2014, 09:29:01 AM
I am confused. I sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade both the core as the MD but they still have different versions.
Title: Re: 12.04 black screen
Post by: pigdog on March 28, 2014, 12:47:59 PM
Hi,

Maybe this will help, or at least point you in the right direction.

http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=12740.0

Are you having the same screen issue?

Cheers.
Title: Re: 12.04 black screen
Post by: coley on March 28, 2014, 01:12:32 PM
What UI are you running; 1, 2, 2+alpha?
-Coley.
Title: Re: 12.04 black screen
Post by: Esperanto on March 28, 2014, 03:15:47 PM
Quote from: pigdog on March 28, 2014, 12:47:59 PM
Maybe this will help, or at least point you in the right direction.

http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=12740.0
Interesting. I did not know you can set version preferences in etc/apt/preferences . But since it only shows the old version it does not help me much. I had/have an issue on my core but since that is updated and the MD's just mount the directories on the core that should not make any difference. (http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=13619.0)

Quote from: pigdog on March 28, 2014, 12:47:59 PM
Are you having the same screen issue?
Unfortunately yes. Since it did not update most of the packages.
Title: Re: 12.04 black screen
Post by: Esperanto on March 28, 2014, 03:16:23 PM
Quote from: coley on March 28, 2014, 01:12:32 PM
What UI are you running; 1, 2, 2+alpha?

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Title: Re: 12.04 black screen
Post by: Esperanto on March 29, 2014, 04:41:26 PM
apparently the version difference is by design as possy replied in the ticket I created ( http://svn.linuxmce.org/trac/ticket/2113 ).

Still leaves the original issue that the screen disappears....
Title: Re: 12.04 black screen
Post by: pigdog on March 29, 2014, 04:58:22 PM
G'day.

Did you think about playing with Nvidia drivers or did you not want to go there?

Cheers.