Input signal out of range - instead of grub screen.
I recently got a second hand PC and installed xubuntu on it. At boot though, instead of the grub screen, I would get the message:
"Input signal out of range. Change settings to 60hz 1280x1024."
...but ignored it, because after about 5 seconds the OS would boot as expected.
After several boots though, it will stop booting normally and will be stuck on the 'Input signal out of range' message.
I can boot with the xubuntu a live USB disk I created for the install though.
I looked around on the web and found: http://askubuntu.com/questions/18956...-to-1600-x-900
So I did like the post suggested, but the problem remains. I also tried to enter my monitors resolution instead of 640x480.
So, what do you think?
Other stuff I've tried...
I tried other monitors and an old hard drive which has Linux mint installed and got the same message.
Here is my grub file.
Code:
cat /etc/default/grub
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
# info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"
# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
Here is my hardware info...
Code:
evian@evian:~$ sudo lspci -v
[sudo] password for evian:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Host Bridge (rev 01)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7254
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at <ignored> (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS480 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 99
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=68
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: fde00000-fdefffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-dfffffff
Capabilities: [b0] Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS480 PCI Bridge
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:12.0 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7254
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
I/O ports at ff00 [size=8]
I/O ports at fe00 [size=4]
I/O ports at fd00 [size=8]
I/O ports at fc00 [size=4]
I/O ports at fb00 [size=16]
Memory at fdfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 78000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Kernel driver in use: sata_sil
Kernel modules: sata_sil
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7254
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at fdffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:13.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7254
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at fdffd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7254
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at fdffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 82)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7254
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
I/O ports at 0500 [size=16]
Memory at 78080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c-piix4
00:14.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI IXP SB400 IDE Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 82 [Master PriP])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7254
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at f900 [size=16]
Capabilities: [70] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Kernel driver in use: pata_atiixp
Kernel modules: pata_atiixp
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7254
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at fdff4000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7254
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: fdd00000-fddfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fdc00000-fdcfffff
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7254
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
Memory at fdef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fde00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeon
02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 254c
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 23
I/O ports at de00 [size=256]
Memory at fddff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: 8139too
Kernel modules: 8139too, 8139cp
Thanks in advance :)
Re: Input signal out of range - instead of grub screen.
Is your Radeon older? I do not know AMD as I have nVidia.
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...amdstock&num=1
On the proprietary driver side, the AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta Linux graphics driver was used. For this initial testing, three discrete graphics cards from the AMD Radeon HD 5000/6000 series were used, since pre-HD5000 graphics cards are now on the Catalyst Legacy driver and the latest-generation Radeon HD 7000 series hardware still doesn't fully work with the open-source Gallium3D "RadeonSI" driver.
This repository provides AMD Catalyst drivers for legacy graphics Radeon HD 2xxx - 4xxx for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal.
https://launchpad.net/~makson96/+archive/fglrx
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troublesho...thRadeonDriver
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1558406
Re: Input signal out of range - instead of grub screen.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
oldfred
Hi I was following the steps on the second link, but the last step I get...
Quote:
evian@evian:~$ sudo apt-get install fglrx-legacy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package fglrx-legacy
Any advise?
