VGA mode not supported

[Art Alexion]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:43 AM, Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de> wrote:
> David McGlone wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> With the last couple releases of kubuntu I have not been able to install
>> kubuntu on my desktop using the live CD because when it boots,
>> everything is way  too big for the screen and it's impossible to navigate,
>> so I always use the alternate cd ,which also after installation is HUGE,
>> but I have managed to navigate around enough to enable the restricted
>> drivers for my video card and after a reboot, all is well.
>>
>> Well I just installed 8.10 on my desktop with the alternate cd and low
>> and behold, I can't even get a HUGE desktop, all I get is my monitor
>> complaining VGA mode not supported.
>
> When do you get this message? At the very beginning of booting the PC or
> when X should be started?
>>
>> I have a 17" flat monitor that can do from 640x480 up to 1280x768.
>> my video card is and ATI radeon x300se RV370.
>
> Are you sure? A 4:3 17" TFT should support 1280x1024 imho.

Ah, but he said 1280x768 which suggest wide screen, not 4:3.

I have had the same issues with live CDs (which hate my graphics and
don't read LVs within LVM partitions as far as I know).

I also had similar graphis problems with Intrepid on ATI with wide
screen on the 10/31 release date, so I moved that computer to Debian
Lenny for now.  I was thinking of retrying Intrepid today to see if
those and other (invisible mouse) issues were fixed.

Anybody else with the invisible mouse problem have any luck?



>>
>> I tried booting into safe mode and that doesn't work like it used to in
>> previous releases where a desktop would come up. I even tried dpkg-
>> reconfigure xserver-xorg and it doesn't let the xserver be configured
>> anymore, just the keyboard.
>>
>> What should I do?

I had the same issues with dpkg-reconfigure which always used to fix
things, but didn't this time, as well.



>
> maybe start with "sudo lspci |grep VGA", thus letting us know about your
> graphics board?




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