<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <blockquote cite="miderniq8$3id$1@sea.gmane.org" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I'm new to Ubuntu, and have downloaded the latest 6.10 version to try it out. My problem is that when booting the CD onto a MS Virtual PC, the graphics goes into a very strange (and very wide) mode that makes it impossible to view whats going on. I can see that something is displayed and Ubuntu is running, but the screen is a mess. The first boot screen where one can select "Start or install Ubuntu, Start Ubuntu in safe graphics mode..." is displayed correctly, but no matter what graphics mode or resolution I select, after the Ubuntu standard boot window (with the progress bar) is finished, the graphics mode changes, and the screen is unreadable. I think the final screen is a menu with the menu elements like "Application Places System" or something like that. The mouse works and I can invoke things, but it's very difficult to see whats going on., but it's clear the the system is running. Any suggestions ? /Bo PS: SuSE linux, BSD, OpenBSD and a lot of other linux's doesn't have this problem. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I don't know about you're problem but I know that running a linux guest on MS Virtual PC isn't well support. Try using VMware Player . The most of us is using VMware Player for Virtualization. And I could help you on that. So, about MS Virtual PC, The software use the computer's drivers to emulate a VM, and since MS doesn't care about linux, that emulation is only done for windows. I guess when using the other distros you cited, you forced the resolution to be what you wanted. On ubuntu you can do that by running : $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg --frontend Gnome You can also modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf and use the resolution you want. Anyway, my advice is, stop using MS Virtual PC for Linux guests and use the Free VMware Player and VMware Server. </pre> </blockquote> >I guess when using the other distros you cited, you forced the resolution to be what you wanted. Not at all. What I meant, was that Ubuntu is the only distribution (linux or bsd), that has ever shown this kind of behavior, or had any other kind of problem when installing a default system, for that matter. They all automatically selects more normal resolutions (800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024 etc.) and I have never had to force graphics resolutions, when installing a system. <pre wrap="">>$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg --frontend Gnome >You can also modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf and use the resolution you want. The problem is that I do not get to a point in the installation where I have access to readable screen. </pre> I'l look at the VMware systems. /Bo </body> </html>