<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I guess I might as well tell you how to re-configure GRUB to fix the resolution problem.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">1) Open a terminal window (usually CTRL-ALT-T)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">2) sudo ls</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">3) enter password</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">4) sudo mousepad /etc/default/grub</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
5) In the mousepad editor very carefully change the property line GRUB_GFXMODE to be</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
6) Make sure there is not a # at the beginning of the line</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">7) save the file and exit mousepad</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
8) In the terminal window, execute</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> sudo update-grub</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Here is a listing of my interaction:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">keith@keith-NC769AA-ABA-SR5712F:~$<font size="4"> <b>sudo ls</b></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[sudo] password for keith: </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">blah, blah, blah</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">keith@keith-NC769AA-ABA-SR5712F:~$ <b><font size="4">sudo mousepad /etc/default/grub</font></b></font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">(mousepad:4373): IBUS-WARNING **: The owner of /home/keith/.config/ibus/bus is not root!</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">keith@keith-NC769AA-ABA-SR5712F:~$ <b><font size="4">sudo update-grub</font></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Generating grub.cfg ...</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-27-generic</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-27-generic</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-19-generic</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-19-generic</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Found Windows Vista (loader) on /dev/sda2</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">done</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">keith@keith-NC769AA-ABA-SR5712F:~$ </font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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<br></div>Thanks! - Keith<br></div></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Keith Rodenhausen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keith.rodenhausen@gmail.com" target="_blank">keith.rodenhausen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It may be the case that GRUB is just not displaying the boot screen because it is seeing that you have a monitor with higher res than 1024x768. So to test this thought, simply reboot, wait about a minute (get a cup of coffee) and see if you are finally logged in. There is probably a 30 second pause in the boot screen before it takes the default. You should eventually be logged into your xubuntu session. If after about three minutes the screen is still black, I don't know.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If you are finally logged in, its an easy matter of re-configuring GRUB to set the boot resolution to 1024x768.</div>
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Thanks! - Keith<br></div></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amjjawad@gmail.com" target="_blank">amjjawad@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>This is the best place :)</div><div><br></div><div>By the way, what do you mean " I opted in setup to boot straight to the xfce desktop with no login" ??? could you please explain more so that I/we can help?</div>
<div><br></div><div>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dave Stevens</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geek@uniserve.com" target="_blank">geek@uniserve.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:11 PM<br>Subject: video issue with xubuntu 12.04<br>To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>><br>
<br><br>Hi,<br>
<br>
If this isn't the best list please refer me to a better one.<br>
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I've installed xubuntu 12.04.1 onto a Compaq Presario SR5130NX box with onboard nVisia GeFores 6150SE graphics adapter. Because the users are kids I opted in setup to boot straight to the xfce desktop with no login. Everyhing is fine until the desktop (should) appear, at which point the monitor, an Acer AL1916W, complains, saying, "Input Not Supported." I suspect that the monitor is being sent a higher resolution image than it can display hence the error message.<br>
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I don't see how to intervene to go to a lower res, the boot process seems seamless right up to the error message. Ideas? References?<br>
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Dave<span><font color="#888888"><span><font color="#888888"><br>
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