Screen going to black after log in page Mint 19.1

marnav1 · 04-27-2019, 04:18 PM

Hello friends. Lenovo T520 Mint 19.1 Mate
Right after I type in my password the screen goes black. Plugging in or unplugging the power adapter returns screen to normal. It then stays on until next login.

Battery can be fully charged or 50% it still does this. Other than this it works perfectly. I can certainly paste an inxi screen here if you can tell me which one to post.

Im pretty new to Linux, I do not know if this is software or hardware issue. This pc did have 18.3 on it without issue before.

Thank you !

mrmazda · 04-27-2019, 10:35 PM

Code:

inxi -Gxx

provides the graphics info starting point. Xorg.0.log would probably help as well, either from /var/log/ or ~/.local/share/xorg/, whichever is newer if both exist. Upload the log and provide a link to it rather than trying to paste it here, either using the pastebinit command, or using a web browser.

marnav1 · 04-28-2019, 01:53 AM

Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
vendor: Lenovo ThinkPad T520 driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
chip ID: 8086:0126
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
compositor: marco resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Sandybridge Mobile v: 3.3 Mesa 18.2.8
compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes

This is the best I can do, I do not know how to link this to a browser.

mrmazda · 04-28-2019, 02:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marnav1

This is the best I can do, I do not know how to link this to a browser.

The inxi output is OK. Next time wrap the command with its output using the code tag icon ([#]) above the input window.

Xorg.0.log can be pastebin'd (uploaded to a large file hosting service) from a terminal window thus:

Code:

pastebinit /var/log/Xorg.0.log

if it exists, or

Code:

pastebinit ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log

if it exists, whichever is newer if both exist. Alternatively, you can upload using a web browser by going to any of the following:
http://pastebin.com/
http://paste.debian.net/
http://pastebin.centos.org/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/
http://paste.fedoraproject.org
http://paste.opensuse.org/
http://susepaste.org/
https://gist.github.com/
among others. Once you have uploaded the host will provide a link for you to copy and then paste here.

marnav1 · 04-28-2019, 02:31 PM

Thanks for help mr mazda. To be honest I have no idea how to carry out your suggestion so I guess I'll just have to live with the issue for now. Thanks again.

mrmazda · 04-28-2019, 11:05 PM

If understanding pastebin is a problem for you, read this.