Problems with starting Xubuntu

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Wed Dec 14 22:04:31 UTC 2011


Joep L. Blom wrote:
> On 14-12-11 17:14, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > You can find out which video card you have from the command line
> > with this command:
> > 
> > lspci | grep -i vga

> I cannot use lspci as not only the resolution is apparently out of
> range but also the character set used is wrong when in a terminal.

Sorry, I didn't mention that you could run the command from the Live-
USB-Stick if you can't reach a usable resolution e.g. in the recovery 
mode. The result of the command should be the same if you run it from 
the installed system or from the Live-USB-Stick.


Nils




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