GRUB 2 vs. framebuffer

[Joep L. Blom]

On 12/03/11 09:27, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently testing Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS on a sandbox machine, an
> old NEC Powermate with an NVidia GeForce 4000 video card.
>
> After the first reboot, the display is reduced to the upper left third
> of the screen or so. The last time I've been using this machine, there
> was a test install of Arch Linux on it, which had the same problem. Arch
> defaults to the "old" GRUB (v. 0.97 IIRC), and I remember having solved
> the problem by adding 'nomodeset vga=788' as parameters to the 'kernel'
> line. Now I wonder how I can possibly achieve something similar with
> GRUB 2.
>
> I read through the docs and so far, managed to have a partial success. I
> added the following parameter: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset" and ran
> update-grub. Now I already have a "full screen" display, but only in the
> classical 80x25 console style.
>
> I wonder now how I could possible have the equivalent of 'vga=788'
> output that uses the full screen, not only the upper left corner.
>
> Any suggestions for that?
>
> Niki
>
Niki,
It may be completely wrong but I often have this problem when starting 
ubuntu and can solve it by resynchronizing the monitor (using the button 
auto on the monitor).
Just my 0,02 €
Joep