Hope this is the right forum to post this problem. I’ve been using AVLinux (mx21) on a new build I share with my son and all things were running very well for a long time when suddenly my son tells me the screen went black and will no longer boot.
I asked my son what happened exactly beforehand and he mentioned that our cat walked across the keyboard lol. Well I tried a few things like booting into other various partitions through grub and they all stalled at “waiting for /dev to be fully populated”
Researching brought me to try various workarounds to where we wound up adding nomodeset and adding our screen resolution to gfxwhatever. That works well except for one thing: it lags considerably on gaming. Like I said we share the computer, he likes to game and make videos and I record audio. We have an Amd 590 GPU so it normally plays video very well however now it is very laggy and sometimes simply won’t load games for him.
Nomodeset seemed to work decently until we tried to load a game so I can only assume we switched to integrated graphics. The machine is an older server tower that has 2x e5-2630 cpu and 64gb ram, actually a robust machine. I’m just wondering what the hell the cat did to invoke a black screen of death?! Perhaps he triggered an update that screwed the Amd drivers or a new kernel that doesn’t play well? Any advice is very appreciated
