I have a Dell PowerEdge 1950 1U server, and I have been using Ubuntu for quite some time now. A couple of months ago, I noticed that the monitor that's connected to the server no longer displayed a login screen or anything other than a solid underscore in the top left of the screen.
It does display properly up until Ubuntu gets to the part where I'm supposed to login to the command prompt. I have tried using nomodeset in order to get to the command prompt, however, I am unsure which Graphics Drivers I am required to use.
Dell's website offers drivers for RedHat Enterprise Linux and CentOS however no options for Ubuntu users, and my server is years out of its support from Dell.
When I ran lspci -nn | grep -E 'VGA|Display' it showed up with 0e:0d.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] ES1000 [1002:515e] (rev 02)
I am completely unsure of what I should do to get my server to boot up. I do have the proprietary AMD drivers installed, which I installed trying to get my server to display on the monitor. But that didn't work.
The ones I installed were xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu and mesa-vdpau-drivers.
I am entirely unsure what I should install to get the proper drivers or whether I should downgrade from the latest Ubuntu version and try that. However, I would really prefer to fix this without having to completely reinstall, because of the amount of data I have on this server, it would take me hours to back everything up for a reinstall.
The server does not have any form of Secure Boot options in its BIOS and it is installed through legacy BIOS since the server doesn't support UEFI.
Would appreciate any help I can get.
Edit: I have tried the steps listed in My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?, I have Googled this and followed this issue for about a month now trying solutions when I have free time. Nothing has worked, all it does is after doing nomodeset or installing drivers, it will boot into said black screen right after it sets the hostname, even with nomodeset turned on. I can, however, SSH just fine into the server.
Booting into it with no splash it is failing on Feb 19 10:35:30 awd kernel: i5k_amb i5k_amb.0: hwmon_device_register() is deprecated. Please convert the driver to use hwmon_device_register_with_info().
My server isn't UFEI or emulating UEFI and it isn't BIOS emulating UEFI. It is simply a legacy BIOS. So those solutions won't help me.
