Installation problem

[Felix Miata]

Mike Jonas composed on 2017-07-04 09:00 (UTC+1000):

> Acer Aspire S 13 ... Mint 18.1 ...

What is "M/C"? I don't see any such reference on
https://www.cnet.com/products/acer-aspire-s-13/specs/
and don't remember seeing it refer to anything other than Midnight Commander on
any version of Linux.

xorg -configure is an anachronism. It almost never will fix anything, and IME
more often it will create additional impediments to finding solutions. Deleting
or renaming the xorg.conf file it created should precede further attempts to
diagnose.

If when you are looking at a black screen and key in "Ctrl-Alt-F2", does the
screen un-black to a login prompt?

"Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-53-generic
root=UUID=5cba3833-f404-4f25-b775-2f750ad191b6 ro recovery nomodeset"

is an emergency/recovery cmdline. Whatever you did to cause use of nomodeset
will prevent the Intel Xorg and the Modeset Xorg video drivers to be unusable,
either of which is prerequisite to a usable modern X Server, hence the
X server is now disabled..." message you get.
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