Monitor problems on Lucid

**The Switch Blade** · May 10th, 2010

Hi,

I have a new sony vaio VPCF11NFX/B with a fresh install of Lucid.

I am using a VGA-out to a LCD monitor. It shows up and is recognized. I cannot get video to appear on my laptop monitor. Moreover, when I unplug my external monitor, I cannot boot into ubuntu. It brings me to low graphics mode and I can't do anything from there because half of the screen is missing.

Thoughts?

**Catharsis** · May 10th, 2010

Try booting with "nomodeset":
1) Hold Shift while booting.
2) Press 'e'. Replace "quiet splash" with "nomodeset".
3) Ctrl+x to reboot.

Also, do you have the proprietary nVidia driver installed through System->Administration->Hardware Drivers?

**The Switch Blade** · May 10th, 2010

I'll try that, and yes I do.

**The Switch Blade** · May 16th, 2010

I can't get the shift thing to work. Also, I should mention that when I do go into low graphics mode, it looks absolutely awful. The top half of the screen is black with a white and black barcode looking thing covering half of it. Then the actual screen is split in half, with the right side on the left and the left side on the right.