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Most characters disappearing in GNOME after suspend

Legion 5 17ARH05H laptop with AMD Ryzen 7 4800H and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (issue existed with 23.10, too) NVIDIA drivers 550 (issue exists with 535, too) Everything works ...
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Login Loop Ubuntu 22.0.4.3 LTS

Ask Ubuntu community, I would like to share my recent experience of facing a frustrating issue with Ubuntu on my computer. After a system update, I was confronted with a login loop challenge that ...
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Apps unable to connect to the internet after beginning of NVIDIA driver install process

I'm fairly new to linux and like the title says I was trying to install a NVIDIA driver on Ubuntu 22.04 and during this process something went wrong and now the apps on my computer (browser, VPN,etc.) ...
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no graphical login screen after boot into Ubuntu 22.04 following driver update

I have updated my nvidia driver to nvidia-driver-525-open using the GUI (which was marked as tested). After a reboot I no longer get a graphical login screen, just a blinking cursor. Using Ctrl+Alt+F4 ...
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GDM3 and GDM don't start in Ubuntu 20.04 - Kernel 5.11.0-34-generic - Nvidia Driver 470

I hope you can help me, as the title says and gdm3 starts on a black screen, I restart the PC and both gdm start correctly, I have configured the nomodeset grub and tried everything found on the ...
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Ubuntu server 18 problem with display manager - can't see GDM properly

Lenovo sr650 server with 2 graphical adapters : Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G200e NVIDIA Corporation GV100GL [Tesla V100 PCIe 32GB] After installing GDM - can't see it properly . Please ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 booting in console mode even after reinstalling drivers

So basically I just did one thing (or one mistake I would say): apt-removing python2 and python3 since I wanted to reinstall it for other reasons. During the process I think it may removed something ...
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Ubuntu Freezing after login, can't install gdm3, other solutions not working

I am on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, and the computer freezes after I enter in my login information. I have looked thoroughly at the solutions presented on Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop but none of them ...
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boot hangs at "Started GNOME Display Manager" after updating to 18.04 (kernel 4.15.0-66)

I have a custom-built workstation (from early 2018) with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. It's connected to one screen and a few USB devices. It came with Ubuntu 16.04 preinstalled. The kernel I'm using ...
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Ubuntu 19.10 Login Loop After Installing Proprietary Nvidia Drivers

Background After installing Nvidia proprietary driver (nvidia-driver-435), got caught in a login loop (see below for system specifics). After typing in my password and pressing enter my desktop ...
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HDMI not recognised Ubuntu 18.04

My HP Zbook G5 is not recognizing when a hdmi cable is plugged in. I am running Ubuntu 18.04 5.2.5-050205-generic kernel and proprietary nvidia 390 driver If anyone has any suggestions I would very ...
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Ubuntu flashes with a black screen without getting logged in

I was installing drivers for Nvidia GPU where I stopped lightdm to do so. The drivers were installed through shell (ctrl+alt+f4) which I could verify. And then I tried to login to my ubuntu desktop. ...
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Changing from Nvidia to Nouveau causes hang at boot

I'm on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS. I was running Nouveau and everything was fine, but in order to run Android Studio and emulate an Android device, I needed to install the Nvidia driver. I used the Software &...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Display Driver Lots of Locked Files

My system has been frequently locking up since upgrading to 17.10 and it appears to be that xorg it taking the processor to 100%. I purged the NVidia drivers but can’t reinstall as countless files and ...
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How can I stop GDM on Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop in order to install NVIDIA Driver?

In the case of Ubuntu 16.04. I can download the NVIDIA driver run file and then ctrl+alt+F1 and then do the below sudo service lightdm stop sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.48.run I follow on screen ...
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Booting issue on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS using GNOME 3

So, I booted up Ubuntu, and for some reason, the display was turning on and off erratically, and my computer was making small whining noises whenever the display dimmed. I had to force shut down my ...
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"The system is running in low-graphic mode" issue on ubuntu 16.04 after booting

This morning I booted my Ubuntu partition through Grub as normal, but instead of going to the log in screen, it showed the black page with error message "The system is running in low-graphic mode". I ...
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A stop job is running for session c1 of user gdm after installing nVidia drivers

I recently installed a 1050 Ti on my pc, and used the driver recommended from the Additional drivers submenu in the settings. (375) After that, my boot and shutdown screens got messed up (low ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Login loop with NVIDIA GTX 980 [duplicate]

I have a desktop PC with an NVIDIA GTX 980 and an inbuilt graphics driver as well (Matrox) in the Intel Motherboard. I tried installing Ubuntu 16.04, Kubuntu 16 and Ubuntu Server 16.04 but I'm having ...
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No graphical user interface after update on 16.04

After an update from Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 to 16.04 my gui completly crashes after GRUB. If I try a normal boot, the gui freezes there, where the LVM needs the password to decrypt the systemdrive. I can ...
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Can't load GDM or Gnome

I've been using Ubuntu Gnome 13.10 for about 2 weeks without issue, but today, after restarting my PC, it got stuck on the Gnome splash screen. I managed to load my login screen by switching to ...
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Keep getting kicked back to login screen after Xorg -configure

Im using ubuntu 9.10 I have the following mobo in the computer: http://www.netonnet.se/art/dator/datorkomponenter/moderkort/intel-775/ASUS-P5KPL-AMSE/127329.4026/ (ASUS P5KPL-AM SE) The mobo uses a ...
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