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My graphics card just died and now linux won't start
Hello people,
I'm running Kubuntu on an older PC. A few minutes ago my graphics card (a Radeon HD6770) passed away. Fortunately my PC does have a onboard vga (a crappy Nvidia something chip). So I unplugged the AMD card, switched cables and now my linux doesn't start. To be precise, I get to the SDDM login screen and can enter my passphrase but then nothing happens. I'll get a blackscreen or some colourful nonsense but not my desktop. Interestingly Windows does start normally. Does anyone have an idea what I can do? Maybe this is caused by: * My monitor setup. I used to have two display connected to my AMD card but now I can only use one of them, or * There is a trouble because of the AMD - Nvidia switching, or * something totaly different Nonetheless I have no idea what to do. Can anyone else please help? |
Hi & Welcome to LQ.
I'm not a GPU expert but I have a few ideas. You will need to find out what onboard card that is so you can find a driver for it. That is if Nvidia still has a Linux driver for that card. To do that run this in your terminal. Code:
lspci | grep -i VGAI'm not good with a double display, sorry. https://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config Graphics are controlled through the xorg.conf file- ftp://www.x.org/pub/X11R7.7-RC1/doc/...g.conf.5.xhtml Perhapas your kernel can use the nouvea driver for the onboard Nvidia card but I'm not sure how to do that. Sorry. ***Your going to need a member that's good with Nvidia.*** |
It sounds like your system might still be trying to load the driver for your Radeon HD6770 card.
You'll need to type the following command to see which kernel driver is being used; Code:
lspci -nnk | grep VGA -A2Can you also post your X log; Code:
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |
Can you get to a terminal with CTRL+ALT+F2?
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