Left monitor display becomes garbled

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 at 21:25, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/7/22 15:12, Colin Law wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 Mar 2022 at 19:28, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Good afternoon,
> >>
> >>    A short time ago, the left hand monitor display becomes garbled and
> >> the only way I have found to get rid of the problem is to power off the
> >> system. I say this because my mouse cursor COMPLETELY goes away. I have
> >> not tried to get to a tty log in screen via ctl-alt-fn, however, not
> >> sure that would work either.
> >
> > So the left hand monitor was garbled, but the mouse did not appear on
> > either display?  Did anything you tried do anything? For example
> > tabbing through the open windows, hitting the Win key to get the dash
> > (or whatever silly name it has at the moment)? Ctrl-Alt-T to get a
> > terminal window?
> >
> > Colin
> >
>
> Colin,
>
>   No cursor anywhere. I just shut down and restarted. Next ime I will
> try some of the other things.

So the whole machine may have crashed.

The syslog from then should still be available.  Have a look in there
and see what it shows before the reboot.

Colin