[ubuntu-uk] Small graphics issue with Nvidia drivers

Barry Titterton titterton.barry at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 12:42:14 UTC 2014


On 31/03/14 18:00, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 31 March 2014 17:11, Barry Titterton <titterton.barry at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have recently converted a desk top machine from XP to Unbuntu but have a
>> small problem with the graphics during start up.
>>
>> The machine has a legacy Nvidia graphics card (6800LE). I installed Ubuntu
>> 13.10 as the only OS on the machine. The installer used the Nouveau graphics
>> driver as the default for the Nvidia card but it gave problems so I used
>> Software & Updates > Additional Drivers to change to the propriety
>> nvidia-304-updates driver.
>>
>> The problem is when I start the machine, after the BIOS text screen, the
>> screen now goes black with only the following two lines of text on the
>> screen:-
>>
>> Ubuntu 13.10 <name> tty1
>> <name> login:
>>
>> (Where <name> is the ID of the machine)
>>
>> I then wait for approx 30 seconds, without touching the keyboard, and the
>> machine will eventually go to the normal log-in screen. I can then log-in to
>> Unity as normal, and everything works fine.
>>
>> So you will see that this pause at the tty1 screen is more of an annoyance
>> than a problem. It also gives a poor impression to people that I am trying
>> to convert to Ubuntu. I have tried Google but all of the issues that I have
>> found refer to a total loss of display rather that this temporary pause
>> during boot. Can anyone suggest a way of stopping this pause?
>
> Sounds like the kernel is unable to do mode-switching, so you're
> seeing some of the startup messages.
>
> In the past, I've got round this by specifying the monitor's actual
> resolution - or something close, e.g. right vertical resolution - in
> GRUB with `nomodeset` and `vga=792` or whatever.
>
Hi Liam,

Have tried 'nomodeset' in a temporary way by accessing GRUB during boot, 
but have not set it as a permanent option. It had no noticable effect on 
the boot behaviour. I have not tried 'vga=792'.

Barry



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