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Last edited by moddie666; May 6th, 2010 at 10:32 PM. Reason: deleted
I have done a fresh install, ran all the updates first then ran the Nvidia drivers update... 195... after that, the splash and terminal are still not visible. I only a year old to linux, there must be some one out there who can help us noobs!!!
It would be great if anyone could help in this matter. I have an old Laptop (Acer Travelmate with an Ati Mobility gfx card) that worked more or less fine in 9.10; but now after the upgrade when it boots I see the white logo just fine, then there appears a blue line in the middle with some strange characters and I see a screen with fancy colours everywhere.
I have to use ctrl+alt+f1 to change to tty1 (which is also full of strange characters and colours) and then ctrl+alt+f7 to change to the login screen which then works. However, every time I change back to tty1, I see the strange characters again. Why is this? Why are there always problems like this with every new Ubuntu release?
Reconfiguring didn't work, either. Neither did disabling KMS.
Hello.
At lest for me the issue is now solved.
There is a little package called "startupmanager" appears to be a program for changing settings in GRUB2. Long story short: One computer worked fine without and the one with "startupmanager" installed made problems.
You can set a resolution for the splash screen wich i did, leading to a screwed up terminal like the one in post #1.
I took me until today to realize that grub was passing parameters to the kernel that caused this, specifically "vga=XXX".
I simply removed those I didn't need (vga=XXX quiet and splash).
And voila: Simple boot in text mode and working terminals.
if you don't like the standard font you can run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup" to change it.
greetings
/moddie
Hi
for me the issue is solved too.
The issue is related to framebuffer drivers.
Since in Ubuntu 10.04 by default you're using experimental driver nouveau for the Nvidia cards. When you install nvidia drivers which are not compatible with nouveau driver and you get fuzzy graphics at boot.
The solution for me is using uvesafb driver at boot. ( this is only at boot when X loads you're back to nvidia driver, so don't get confused )
So here it is step by step
Step 1: Add uvesafb to initramfs modules
Step 2: Set framebuffer=y in initramfs splash confCode:sudo echo "uvesafb mode_option=1024x768-24 mtrr=3 scroll=ywrap" >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
Step 3: Update initramfsCode:sudo echo "FRAMEBUFFER=y" > /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash
Reboot and that's it.Code:sudo update-initramfs -u
Worked for me hope it works for you too.
Did nothing for me (Intel graphics).
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