Good day/night everyone.
Day before yesterday (2016/03/07) I downloaded the torrent for Ubuntu MATE 16.04 from the official MATE website, and yesterday I installed it in a Dell Inspiron 15-5548-B10 Laptop, in UEFI boot mode and four partitions: the first for the EFI boot, with a size of 512MB; the second for the base system, mount point /
, with a size of 307200MB (300GB); the third for the /home
directory, with a size of 102400MB (100 GB); and the fourth and last one for swap
area, with a size of 16384MB (16GB, double of the laptop’s memory). All partitions were set as primary. Fresh install with official ISO image burned into an USB drive with Ubuntu’s Startup Disc Creator were successful.
BUT, after a few customizations in appearance (described below; I don’t know if they have anything to do with the issue), I did run Software Updater and Updated my system. After update, the Software Updater asked me to reboot the system, I did it, and after reboot the O. S. never booted correctly anymore. The loading screen is shown no more, and in its place the system is stuck on a black screen with borders in dark grey. I can boot in recovery mode normally.
The laptop has a dedicated graphics board of ATI, and the MATE’s driver manager (Additional Drivers) doesn’t recognize the ATI’s driver so I’m unable to switch between Nouveau’s driver and ATI’s driver. The software doesn’t recognize the integraded Intel’s graphics card too.
Customizations:
- Top panel: some launchers and separators, bluetooth turned off, weather turned on (and localization of course);
- Bottom panel: Eyes 1.12.1, Fish 1.12.2 and two separators;
- Appearance: Windows titlebar buttons setted to
Left
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I really loved Ubuntu MATE, that’s because I opened this issue instead of installing another O. S. in my laptop. Someone to save my user experience?
Thank you since now.