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Screen goes black after grub gui

raysr11

Thu Mar 02, 2017 7:14:36 pm

Hello. When I first installed Zorin 11 I had no problems whatsoever. But I had to reinstall and that's when the trouble started. It will boot into the grub gui and then goes into a black screen. If I close my laptop and reopen it's booted up and ready to go. How can I get it to boot up properly w/o having to close and reopen the lid?

HP Pavillion g7 17"
AMD A8-4500M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics × 4
Gallium 0.4 on AMD ARUBA (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.6.2)
7.3 GiB Memory

Swarfendor437

Fri Mar 03, 2017 12:40:30 pm

Do you get a glowing 'Z' during boot at all? Have you installed Proprietary (NVidia/ATI-AMD) drivers? Loading proprietary graphics drivers tends to screw up the GDM (Gnome Desktop Manager).

qnarkill

Mon Mar 06, 2017 7:09:51 pm

https://xubuntu.org/news/laptop-users-f ... nlock-bug/
would this help?