Left monitor display becomes garbled

[Jay Ridgley]

On 3/7/22 15:29, Colin Law wrote:
> 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
> 
NOT MUCHMar  6 12:00:35 polar clamd[964]: Sun Mar  6 12:00:35 2022 -> 
SelfCheck: Database status OK.
Mar  6 12:16:47 polar systemd[1]: Starting Flush Journal to Persistent 
Storage...
Mar  6 12:16:47 polar kernel: [    0.000000] microcode: microcode 
updated early to revision 0x28, date = 2019-11-12
Mar  6 12:16:47 polar systemd[1]: modprobe at drm.service: Succeeded.
Mar  6 12:16:47 polar systemd[1]: Finished Load Kernel Module drm.




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