[PLUG] Xbuntu starts up in a low resolution mode

John Meissen john at meissen.org
Wed Jan 22 21:32:15 UTC 2020


On 1/22/20 12:49 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 1/21/20 10:54 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:31:02 -0800
>>
>> As for messages, look at /var/log/messages. It's a long document, but
>> if you open it in Mousepad or Gedit you can do a search on things like
>> 'nvidia' and such.
>
> I was going to reply that I don't have /var/log/messages, but I 
> DuckDuckGo'd it and found out that Ubuntu uses syslog.
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/51265/where-is-var-log-messages
>
> While I have found /var/log/syslog, I haven't found an understandable 
> description of how to read it. Clue stick, please.
>
It might make a log more sense to look at the X server log file.

    /var/log/Xorg.0.log





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