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HI do i need to do this with gray selector highlighting linux normal or advanced?
when i do it press e on normal type vga code and ctrlx a linux green circle of linux mint appears for couple seconds and then black screen forever
by the way my 2 monitors are plugged as i tried do this
Last edited by anaturelover; 01-25-2020 at 05:58 PM.
Normal. If I understand right, you already tried on normal and the result is first a green circle, then the display goes black and stays black. Is this correct? If yes, try the same thing, except instead of vga=791 and nomodeset, type plymouth.enable=0.
meanwhile i have a need to record some video that i have access for a limited time but cannont look at it right now. i used to use free screen video recorder but since i also have problemes of slow in windows i wonder if i can use a tool from the cinnamon mint os i have on a usb key to record what is send to my screen ( with the usb key mint os i have at least one monitor working so that is that. is there something with this os usb key that would allow recording what is appearing on my screen?
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It shows something is crashing, causing LightDM to fail. Without LightDM, you get no GUI login manager. If when you get to that screen, does Ctrl-Alt-F3 change it to a text login prompt? If it does, login, do
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