[Solved] Login Screen Dim on Boot-Up

I was having a problem with my new Arch Enlightenment 18 install using the SLiM login manager on my Lenovo X220. The login screen was dim, but once logged in, the screen was normal brightness. I don't think SLiM itself was causing the dim login screen, but I found the solution!
# systemctl mask systemd-backlight@acpi_video0.service
Actually I stopped the service first, then disabled it, then masked it, however It was the masking of the systemd service that was required.
Found tip from following thread.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=171227

iTwenty wrote:Have you tried setting own_window to no?
When I do, I conky doesn't load at all.
EDIT: It works, but it's hidden by my PCManFM Wallpaper. I have to not set a wallpaper to see it...
KingX wrote:Are you using double buffer for conky? This is a good topic where users using different DE and WM are sharing their conkyrc files. You should take a look and compare your conkyrc.
Nope, not using double buffer. I've tried different settings here and there to no avail.
Last edited by Ward (2011-11-26 14:50:23)

Similar Messages

[SOLVED] Black screen halfway through boot before login screen appears

I originally installed my Arch Linux 64 system on a quad core intel cpu with 4GB RAM and a Nvidia 9600 GT graphics card. Arch is installed on 2 500 GB HDD running on software RAID and LVM. A few months ago I decided I wanted to upgrade my machine to an i7-2600K with 8 GB RAM and a Nvidia 580 GTX graphics card. Since I was using pure software RAID I knew that I could just reuse my installation. So I popped in the drives into the new machine and glory glory Arch booted just fine. One thing I notied though and this has been bothered me since then. On my old machine I could see the whole boot process from start to finish. On my new machine I only see the first few seconds and then a black screen for few seconds and then I get the login screen (KDM in my case). Now I'm running a pure systemd system and I can see the boot process until
[ok] started loading random ...
and then the black screen sets in. Why does this happen? Why can't see if udev, samba etc. start correctly anymore?
Last edited by fettouhi (2012-10-11 21:46:56)

DSpider wrote:Then remove Nouveau completely, undo any changes to mkinitcpio.conf, and re-generate your initramfs.
I don't have the nouveau driver installed at all. But I finally got rid of the black screen. I simply added nomodeset to the kernel parameters in grub and now everything ass before.

Upgraded Mavericks 10.9.4 reverted to old OS X Lion Server login screen on cold boot

Mac Pro
Early 2008
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 16 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256 MB
Software OS X 10.9.4 (13E28)
Boot ROM Version: MP31.006C.B05
SMC Version (system): 1.25f4
This is the first time I've encountered this. Upon cold booting the machine it went directly to the legacy Mac OS X Server login screen from before the upgrade to Mavericks. It would not let me login with current credentials. I had no choice but to hard power off. It returned to normal operation on restart.
It could be a possible bug.

This happened for the second time today. Another thing I noticed was there was no Apple chime on boot. Upon restart the machine started with the Apple chime and went into the Mavericks login screen.

[SOLVED] Black screen after kernel boot after pacman -Syu

Hi, after full system upgrade with pacman -Syu, I get after the kernel boot black screen and everything is freezing. Then need to manually shut down the power button!
Normally when my system starts up after the kernel boot I get straight to the command line terminal login.
Can anybody help me how to fix this? Any clues? Any advice is welcome!
The problem is solved by downgrading to kernel 3.6.11.-1
Many thanks for the help from the people on #archlinux !
Last edited by OpenEye (2013-01-29 05:14:04)

jasonwryan wrote:
Please stop bumping your thread: use the edit button
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … te#Bumping
What have you done about the errors being printed to your logs? You could start by fixing the network error and the broken udev rule...
Are you still using intiscripts? They are no longer supported: https://www.archlinux.org/news/end-of-i … s-support/
# edit: not a pacman issue, moving to Newbie Corner
I have searched for many hours and days for solutions on the internet and forums, tried some things, but with no results! I don't know how to fix the errors! Do you know how to fix that? I'm a total n00b! I'm doing my best as I can! Need help, thanks!

Mac OS X Lion displays grey (No background) login screen before Apple boot screen

Macbook Pro 13" (2011) Upon startup, displays a grey screen, then after a few seconds, the logon screen, I would logon, then it would show the Apple White boot screen, then it would ask me to log on again (sometimes)
Anyone else have this problem? any solotion would be greatly appreciated...

Try reinstalling Lion:
Reinstalling Lion Without the Installer
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alterhatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion and click on the Continue button.
Note: You can also re-download the Lion installer by opening the App Store application. Hold down the OPTION key and click on the Purchases icon in the toolbar. You should now see an active Install button to the right of your Lion purchase entry. There are situations in which this will not work. For example, if you are already booted into the Lion you originally purchased with your Apple ID or if an instance of the Lion installer is located anywhere on your computer.

[solved] Incorrect Screen Resolution on Boot

As the title suggests my screen has the incorrect resolution on boot. I have an Nvidia card with two monitors plugged into it.
After installing arch I found that screen was blank on boot. This could be fixed in two ways.
Unplugging one monitor from the graphic's card DVI output and plugging it into the motherboard's DVI output. This gave me the correct resolution but if It would require me to reconnect the monitor to the graphics card after I logged in and started X (configured to use twinview with nvidia)
Adding 'nomodeset' to the end of the my kernel line. This option will not require me to reconnect one monitor but uses an incorrect resolution
The second option is what I am currently using. I am wondering if there is anything I can do to fix the resolution whilst retaining the convenience of not unplugging my monitor.
Last edited by Pat55word (2012-03-17 01:03:25)

Sounds like you have the internal graphics activated in the bios even though you use a dedicated Nvidia card. If I were you, I'd deactivate the internal graphics.
Then we come to the resolution. The nvidia driver does not handle the console, so you'll have tp use either vesafb or uvesafb for it. They generally work ok, but they're limited to resolutions in your card's vbios, and in many cases the resolution you want isn't there.
Do a search on the forums and the wiki about (u)vesafb, there's plenty written about them.
Last edited by Gusar (2012-03-17 00:28:38)

Macbook pro does not respond to bluetooth keyboard and mouse at login screen

i've seen this question floating around and i don't think i've found one that has been resolved. i'm hoping someone may have an answer by now.
i do not have this issue when i boot into windows 7 (bootcamp) the macbook pro responds to keyboard input and mouse input immediately on the windows 7 login screen. when i boot into mac, there is no response from either. i've seen suggestions of waiting for 30 secods. i still get nothing after waiting for over a minute.
what i do right now is use the built-in touch pad and keyboard of the macbook pro to get past the login screen. once i'm logged in, i can see that the bluetooth devices are not yet connected (the three dots that go across the bluetooth symbol at the top right of the screen are not yet there). then after a while, maybe about half a minute, the bluetooth keyboard and mouse are connected and i can use them normally.
it is not a big deal but it is very annoying.
i am using a logitech bluetooth mouse (v740) and an adesso bluetooth keyboard (wkb-4000bm). i also tried an azio bluetooth keyboard and had the same issue. all these keyboards are made for mac.
thannks in advance.

just a correction, the keyboard and mouse don't always automatically reconnect once i'm logged in. most of the time i have to go click the bluetooth icon at the top right of my screen, select the mouse and then select "connect". i have to do the same to the keyboard.

Change login manager but still boot to same DE

Ok, here is the story.
I have installed gnome and lxde. I made the gnome GDM screen my default login screen, so it boots straight to that.
I also have x window manager installed which was originally started using startx, but with the GDM screen I no longer do that.
What I would like to do is have arch boot to the arch default login screen, just the text based screen. However, I would still like to be able to successfully boot into the exact same LXDE environment. I looked on the wiki but couldn't seem to find anything I could understand.
For example: I boot to the arch default screen, login, then type some other command which loads up lxde.
Any info on how to change it would be much appreciated.

KiwiLinux wrote:What I would like to do is have arch boot to the arch default login screen, just the text based screen. However, I would still like to be able to successfully boot into the exact same LXDE environment.
That seems inconsistent. I think you want to boot to the text login and then start LXDE.
What I do is to maintain a custom .xinitrc file in my home directory.:
ewaller$@$odin ~ 1002 %cat .xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
#xset b off
setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps
autocutsel -fork &
autocutsel -selection PRIMARY -fork &
case $WM in
openbox)
exec openbox-session
gnome)
exec gnome-session
e17)
enlightenment_start
dwm)
exec dwm
vb)
VirtualBox -startvm "Windows XP" -fullscreen
xfce4)
exec startxfce4
i3)
exec i3
exec openbox-session
esac
ewaller$@$odin ~ 1003 %
Then, it is easy to pick which environment to start by setting the environmental variable WM to the name of the environment in the case statement. for example, if I wanted i3, I would enter:
WM=i3 startx
This week, I am partial to openbox. If I were to just say startx without setting WM, then it will default to openbox.

When I boot up it hangs on the login screen for awhile, why?

I have a mid 2011 Macbook Air 13". It came with Lion but I recently updated to Mountain Lion. When I wake the laptop from sleep everything is fine. If it's been awhile since it slept (a couple of hours), the login screen hangs. What happens is that it boots like normal and looks like everything is correct, but it won't let me type in my password. After 10 seconds or so I can see a cursor come up but it won't let me type (but anything I do type at this point will later fill in the field after another 2-3 seconds or so). One other thing that's weird is that when the screen first comes up it shows the battery percentage from when I put it back on the charger, then after everything catches up, it changes to show 100%.
I hope I explained the problem well enough. Basicly a "wake from sleep" is fine if it hasn't been long since the laptop slept, but if it's been awhile it takes about 15-20 seconds to boot up.
Ideas?

Here are some suggestions based on my recent issue with unable to get Mavericks up after upgrade - The Apple geniuses just simply couldnt figure this one out...despite it being in their shop for 3 days (They probably did not look at it...and asked if they can just wipe out everything and install fresh...i had said NO):
Restart computer and hold Cmd+V when you hear chime. This will start the computer in Verbose mode.
See the messages and see where the system boot fails. In my case, it was some backtrace IOStorageFamily issue with com.paragon-software.
Google may be able to solve your Apple issues - just type the error message in and see if you get any useful suggestions. in most cases - this would be some faulty 3rd party drivers.....
In my case, it was something stupid i had probably installed....I had to boot to safe mode (Hold Shift at boot chime) - open Terminal, delete the folder com.paragon-software.kext from System/Library/Extensions....that fixed the problem. Mavericks is working great now....
Let me know if your debugging thing works...

[SOLVED] Black screen after boot

Hello,
I've been running Arch for a while now successfully, and decided to give Windows 10 a go, so I installed it on the side. Naturally, Windows overwrote the Grub2 bootloader, but I knew that was going to happen.
So after playing with Windows 10 for a while, I decided to go back to Arch. I put in the Arch Live CD, chrooted into my Arch installation, and ran the grub-install commands
# grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck=/dev/sdc
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Grub reported no errors, other than something "invading" block 32. But nevertheless reported "success".
I reboot, and sure enough Grub is there, but when I try to load Arch, the first time I got a message that it was re-checking the /dev/sdc3 (which is where Arch is installed, /dev/sdc2 is where Windows is) because it's mount time is "in the future". That check ran for about 10 seconds, then proceeded with "normal" boot. The problem is... I see the message "/dev/sdc3 is clean" after which the SDDM (former KDM, the display manager) should load.
But all I see is black screen (not screen turned off, just black). I tried going to tty's (Alt+F1 to F5), but couldn't. I erased the Xorg.0.log (through another chroot) and rebooted with the same problem, then accessed the log later only to find them empty. I tried disabling SDDM and enabling GDM which I had installed, same problem.
What could it be? I don't even know where to look, as I don't really see any error messages anywhere.
Thanks!
Last edited by Deusdies (2014-11-08 04:54:46)

Once again duck programming, err, problem solving to the rescue.
I chrooted again and removed the nvidia drivers and disabled sddm. Installed xf86-video-noevau drivers and rebooted. This time I was greeted with tty1. Success!
Did some more fiddling, but I think it was the SDDM that was the culprit. I uninstalled it, and installed LightDM (with kde-greeter). Enabled the lightdm using systemctl, also removed the noevau with nvidia (back to proprietary), rebooted, and voila, it works! I am greeted with the login screen.

[SOLVED] GNOME login screen freezes after 3 seconds

Hello,
today I installed Arch-Linux the first time. I had some issues during the installation (following https://wiki.archlinux.de/title/Anleitu … Einsteiger (its the german version, seems to differ a little from the english version)), but everything went good until I installed GNOME. Now the login screen freezes everytime after quite exactly 3 seconds, unless I press [strg]+[alt]+[f2] fast enough to switch in tty2. Then the screen will only freeze when I switch back to tty1. Once the screen is frozen, I can't switch to tty2 anymore.
I think the problem has something to do with my nvidia hybrid graphic system. During the installation I installed the packages bumblebee, bbswitch and primus, but uninstalled them because I thought they could be the problem. But although I uninstalled the packages, the "Stamina-Mode" status led is turned on after the system has started and the "Speed-Mode" status led not. I think that's a little bit strange, because I can't imagine which process is controlling these leds.
So I ran just
pacman -S xorg-drivers
and I had to create the xinitrc-file (because I could not find this file in /etc/skel). Now the default GUI appeared after I ran
startx
(I saw some windows and a clock). After that I installed gnome, changed the xinitrc-file in my userhome and got the freeze after a reboot.
I don't know if it has anything to do with my problem, but I get the following error-messages everytime I boot:
[drm:ibx_irq_handler] *ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun
[drm:intel_dp_start_link_train] *ERROR* too many full retries, give up
[drm:ilk_display_irq_handler] *ERROR* Pipe A FIFO underrun
interl ips 0000:00:1f.6: thermal reporting for required devices not enabled, aborting
Hoeman
P.S.: Because I'm a total beginner at linux I probably missed the most important informations, but I can give you more if you tell me how
Last edited by Homan42 (2014-10-18 19:43:17)

Ok, I could solve the problem myself by installing the latest nvidia driver. Now I guess the intel grahic card is not used anymore, but I don't really know...

Hi...m using a mac pro quad core.....its not booting up...i can only see the apple logo and a circle loading...could not get into the login screen

hi...m using a mac pro quad core.....its not booting up...i can only see the apple logo and a circle loading...could not get into the login screen...any suggestions please.....m in the middle of a project and now i have got this one
regards,
v.s.bharan

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Do you keep your data backed up?
If not, you should always do so*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
You never know when a hard drive or a directory might go bad. Having a bootable clone is a must.
That link also shows you some tools you can use to recover data.
If you aren't backed up, try buying those tools first, before attempting to repair the directory.
Directory issues can be fixed with these tools*:
http://www.macmaps.com/directoryfaq.html

Yosemite installed on iMac purchased with Mavericks now takes 2 minutes to boot and give the login screen.

Downloaded and installed os x yosemite on iMac that was purchased originally with Mavericks. When power button is pressed I get start up audio tone and then the the black screen with the white apple symbol with the progression bar. The bar moves very slowly two about one third and then the mouse cursor appears and there it stalls for around two minutes. After the wait the login screen appears and it operates normally. This whole process before update would only take maybe 30 seconds.
If I try the web recovery process it will revert back to Mavericks any suggestions on what this might be. I do have an external Mac passport pro external drive that does have time machine enabled and has been there for months.
Thanks

After spending a number of hours with Apple Care personnel I was connected with a supervisor and finally got the iMac to boot up on every attempt and in a reasonable amount of time. Login screen now comes on in 30 to 40 seconds and computer is usable within a total time of 1 minute to 1minute 30 seconds.
Here was the process. Tried to download whole operating system with reinstall from utilities menu at power on and at 7 hours progress bar stalled at one third the way. Reason, time machine external hard drive was still connected during process. Disconnected all external connections except power and tried download again. This time whole operating system downloaded in 15 to 20 minutes. Yosemite installed and rebooted automatically and booted to login screen, signed in then to desktop, but boot took around five minutes. Shutdown and connected all peripherals, i.e.. ext. HD, DVD, printers and tried to start. iMac stalled at 2 minutes into progression bar with white apple symbol before login screen. Removed peripherals and tried again and still stalled and would not boot.
What was done to correct is as follows. Started iMac in Safe Mode, cleared all items in cache from Macintosh HD/Library folder and System /Library folder, system start up items, launch agents, and launch daemons contents cleared, removed printers in system preferences, ran disk utilities verify and repair of disk and disk permissions. Shutdown and removed power from iMac. With no peripherals system then booted normally. Reconnected peripherals while iMac was still on and added printers back to system preferences and all is well.
So it seems only reasonable that the downloading problem was hindered by the time machine external hard drive, to which an Apple rep. agreed and the extremely slow boot up or stalled boot up was caused by items in the start up and launch folders. I will state here that I was using my ISP's anti virus software for the Mac which was in the launch folders and most likely was causing the boot up problems.

How to change the resolution on my Boot & Login Screen, There low resolution ?

Hi guys, Ok the situation I have is my Boot & Login Screen are at a Low resolution something like a 640 X 480, were my Desktop resolution is at 1280 X 1024, at 75 Hz, both of these were right until I updated from OSX 10.5.6 to OSX 10.5.8; from there on I have been getting this low resolution screen, an they are driving me crazy, is there any way to put them back as they were? Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. 73's

Hi, no idea how to cure it, but have noticed that it sometimes corrects itself, or after doing I don't know what... perhaps toggling the Display res a few ties until it "feels" safe about a certain rez???

I solve my problem of black screen when starting up my Mac pro, namely by the button lighting and then i saw the login screen. Hopefully it works for you too.

I solve my problem of black screen when starting up my Mac pro, namely by using the lighting button and then i saw the login screen. Hopefully it works for you.

It was the PRAM.

[Solved] Login Screen Dim on Boot-Up

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for