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Using the Xfce display manager and scaling the native 1920x1200 by 1.5 gave 1280x800. The change persisted on reboot so I am a happy camper.
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MX-23.5 64bit, Xfce
My laptops native screen resolution is 1920x1200, which makes difficult to use, especially with some of my legacy programs. I reset the display with MX Tweak to 1280x800 which works well, but even after saving the selection, on reboot it reverts to the higher resolution. I have ...

j2mcgreg;
Interesting idea. I have a couple of SSDs I swap between one with Linux Mint, and one with (ugg) Windows. Neither of them have the startup problems. So I switched the caddys and cabling with the Linux Mint SSD which would isolate the problems if it was contacts. No difference, MX still ...

Does the behavior repeat if you boot with the default SysV init?


Not sure how to do that...


At the Grub screen, click on Advanced Options and then choose a standard kernel as the boot choice for that session. If it solves the problem, you can make the switch permanent with the Boot ...

j2mcgreg wrote: Mon Oct 30, 2023 6:57 am Does the behavior repeat if you boot with the default SysV init?

Not sure how to do that...

Just hung again on re-boot. Here is the log after forced restart:
------------ Mon Oct 30 12:11:57 CET 2023 ------------

rootMX23: clean, 359492/14655488 files, 4487406/58607104 blocks
INIT: version 3.06 booting
INIT: No inittab.d directory found
Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S ...

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QSI:

System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-13-686-pae [6.1.55-1] arch: i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-13-686-pae root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet
init=/lib/systemd/systemd
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7
dm ...

Hi, love MX Linux, but am experiencing that it frequently hangs on startup at a black screen with the curser blinking. The only thing that works is multiple forced shutdowns until it finally blows through it and starts. Very frustrating.
Running MX-23.1 32bit, Xfce. Panasonic CF-19, part time stand ...

Guess it turned out to be more more of an Xorg question than MX linux issue. BItterTruth pointed me in the right direction and I now have the tools to deal with the BackingStore graphics option.
Thanks!