Black screen on startup after seeing home page

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I have 5.3.0 running on an old desktop but not on a somewhat newer laptop. are there debug levels I can set to see exactly what the problem is?

Thank you!
Gene Risi

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Please, give more information about your setup. Which operating system are you using? Did you build Slicer yourself or did you downloaded the pre-built binaries? If you downloaded the binaries, maybe you would like to give a try to 5.2.1 (stable) instead of preview version just to see if that makes a difference.

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Also search the forum for similar issues - there’s a lot of discussion about laptop drivers causing black screens, such as:

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True! Here’s another one: Slicer Black screen on opening software

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Hello,
I am running Win 10 Pro and a pre-built binary. I tried 5.2.1 and got the same results (also, similiar to others, there does appear to be a home screen behind it, with right clicking giving different options, etc.
I can run 5.3 on my older home machine and I am trying a “last-ditch” effort to run 5.3 under a dual boot Linux environment on my laptop. I realize the hardware is old (by laptop standards :grinning:)
Thank you!
Gene

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I installed Ubuntu on the laptop and am running the Linux version of 5.3.0 without any problems.

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