[HLUG] Ubuntu Mate

[Tim Spivey]

Spot on, all fixed now. I just chose a proprietary driver in the
'additional drivers' section
On 12 Jun 2015 10:07 am, "Julian Robbins" <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tim
>
> I have seen something like this before, I think its related to your monior
> and graphics card. Have you tried powering down your monior completely and
> then restartuing ?
>
> Otherwise it may be a different graphics driver having an effect ie 2d open
> source instead on 3d proprietry driver
>
> Julian
>
> On 11 June 2015 at 22:29, Tim Spivey <tim.spivey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I decided to have a change from Mint Cinnamon 16 and installed Ubuntu
> Mate
> > 15.04 (I think). It didn't see my wireless card right away so I had to
> > temporarily run a long ethernet wire from my router, once I installed the
> > right drivers the wireless worked fine.
> >
> > On boot up my monitor goes into power saving mode, ie acts as if it's not
> > getting a signal. It's really weird. When I turn the PC on the POST check
> > and everything shows fine then the monitor goes off for 30ish seconds
> until
> > the desktop boots. Is this a  'feature' of Ubuntu Mate?
> >
> > Can anyone suggest anything?
> >
> > Tim
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