Tried DVI now no display using any output on the card

[steve7233]

I tried switching to DVI with the computer on. No display. Rebooted. Got KDM login after entering pass word screen blanked and said no signal and never got a signal. I switched back to HDMI. Now HDMI does the same thing. HDMI displays losing plasma for a few milliseconds before the monitor loses the signal. Monitor is a Samsung Syncmaster manufactered in 2011. Video card is a NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1060. The MOBO has video output built in.

Could it be switching to that by mistake?

[vinnywright]

some times kscreen tryes to remember your last settings for the monitor/monitors .

you could try removing ~/.local/share/kscreen/ reboot and let a new default /kscreen get added and try again .

VINNY

[steve7233]

Typing [ctr]+[alt]+[f3] enabled me to display a login and get in via a text consle. The desktop seems to be the problem.

[steve7233]

some times kscreen tryes to remember your last settings for the monitor/monitors .

you could try removing ~/.local/share/kscreen/ reboot and let a new default /kscreen get added and try again .

VINNY

rm command not found?? It would help if I could see what I am typing. Unfortunately the display is a bit off so I can't see all for sides of the screen correctly. The view port is smaller than the display area.

[vinnywright]

rm command not found?? It would help if I could see what I am typing. Unfortunately the display is a bit off so I can't see all for sides of the screen correctly. The view port is smaller than the display area.

then switch to a TTY and do it in the terminal

VINNY

[steve7233]

then switch to a TTY and do it in the terminal

VINNY

That's what I meant tty didn't display correctly.

I rebooted to the GRUB menu and booted to recovery mode and selected repair packages then continue normal boot. Fixed HDMI mode. I will try DVI later.

[steve7233]

I just rebooted and it won't display. I guess the repair only fixed the problem for that session. Of course the internet is down now so there is that annoyance.

[steve7233]

It is still broken. The only way I can get it to work is by using the GRUB menu to select recovery mode and boot from there.

[jglen490]

If the Nvidia card is not displaying, do you get to a GUI via the MB built-in video? You may have to activate/deactivate one or the other in the BIOS/UEFI settings

[steve7233]

I figured out a way to do what vinney suggested and now it's back to booting HDMI. I had to reselect the proper resolution via the NVIDIA tool. I don't know why the 1080 resolution displays so wonky probably a plug 'N' play spec version problem since the monitor is from 2011. The P&P specs probably changed at some point and there is now a miss communication so the aspect ratio is wrong.