12.04 server oddity

[Phil Dobbin]

Hi, all.

I have an old Dell Poweredge 650 which, on one of its drives, is quite
happily running CentOS 6.4 Gnome Desktop.

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 Server on its second drive successfully but
when it rebooted it told me that the Screen was out of range & the
refresh rate needed to be 60Hz & 1280 x 1040. I found this puzzling to
say the least that a headless server with no GUI whatsoever is
complaining about screen resolution.

I had to scrap the install because ufw was automatically enabled & I
couldn't ssh in to get a terminal running from another machine on the
network.

I subsequently installed Debian 6.0.7 with a full Gnome Desktop to see
if that'd be OK & it works fine but it's not ideal for what I'm after.

Has anybody else seen anything like this? I realise it's complaining
about the antiquated ATI Rage video card but it really shouldn't be a
problem on a headless server.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers,

  Phil...

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