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ok I did the edit to the grub file and it did change the resolution on the vga monitor, but did not help with s-video output. it's not actually outputting anything to s-video with vga plugged in, and with s-video only pluged in it gives a brief signal at the purple splash screen but I don't get the ubuntu logo and it stops any output again. now i did find out that if i hold shift on boot and select the previous version of linux it will output to s-video and vga at the same time just fine.
Hmm... So that may be related to a similar kernel problem that "taygan" was having here:
So Installing an earliar version of the kernel as he described (above) my help you... If you need the debs for the AMD64 / 64bit kernel debs... let me now and I'll post them.
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Unfortunately, vmalloc=192MB didn't work.
Most of it ws fine for me just a few clarrifications needed here and there.
After struggling with this for the best part of 2 days, I've finally made some progress, however small.
Even with the revised changes to the kernel boot line you suggested, I couldn't even get into text mode. This particular system is a laptop with nvidia 8600m GS graphics. I eventually booted it with an external monitor connected and it boots into a console pretty much whatever I put in grub. The output is displayed on the laptop screen only. It just seems to need be connected to a monitor to force it into some other mode or something.
Anyhow, nvidia-current is already installed and I have created an xorg.conf. When I try to start gdm i get "gdm start/running, process 2591" then it quickly returns to the command prompt.
Below is the output from "hwinfo --framebuffer":
I'm not really sure where to go from here.Code:02: None 00.0: 11001 VESA Framebuffer [Created at bios.464] Unique ID: rdCR.04O_qA0Mq31 Hardware Class: framebuffer Model: "NVIDIA G86 Board - e416h01 " Vendor: "NVIDIA Corporation" Device: "G86 Board - e416h01 " SubVendor: "NVIDIA" SubDevice: Revision: "Chip Rev" Memory Size: 14 MB Memory Range: 0xcd000000-0xcddfffff (rw) Mode 0x0300: 640x400 (+640), 8 bits Mode 0x0301: 640x480 (+640), 8 bits Mode 0x0303: 800x600 (+800), 8 bits Mode 0x0305: 1024x768 (+1024), 8 bits Mode 0x0307: 1280x1024 (+1280), 8 bits Mode 0x030e: 320x200 (+640), 16 bits Mode 0x030f: 320x200 (+1280), 24 bits Mode 0x0311: 640x480 (+1280), 16 bits Mode 0x0312: 640x480 (+2560), 24 bits Mode 0x0314: 800x600 (+1600), 16 bits Mode 0x0315: 800x600 (+3200), 24 bits Mode 0x0317: 1024x768 (+2048), 16 bits Mode 0x0318: 1024x768 (+4096), 24 bits Mode 0x031a: 1280x1024 (+2560), 16 bits Mode 0x031b: 1280x1024 (+5120), 24 bits Mode 0x0330: 320x200 (+320), 8 bits Mode 0x0331: 320x400 (+320), 8 bits Mode 0x0332: 320x400 (+640), 16 bits Mode 0x0333: 320x400 (+1280), 24 bits Mode 0x0334: 320x240 (+320), 8 bits Mode 0x0335: 320x240 (+640), 16 bits Mode 0x0336: 320x240 (+1280), 24 bits Mode 0x033d: 640x400 (+1280), 16 bits Mode 0x033e: 640x400 (+2560), 24 bits Mode 0x0345: 1600x1200 (+1600), 8 bits Mode 0x0346: 1600x1200 (+3200), 16 bits Mode 0x0347: 1400x1050 (+1400), 8 bits Mode 0x0348: 1400x1050 (+2800), 16 bits Mode 0x0349: 1400x1050 (+5600), 24 bits Mode 0x034a: 1600x1200 (+6400), 24 bits Mode 0x0352: 2048x1536 (+8192), 24 bits Mode 0x0360: 1280x800 (+1280), 8 bits Mode 0x0361: 1280x800 (+5120), 24 bits Mode 0x0362: 768x480 (+768), 8 bits Mode 0x0364: 1440x900 (+1440), 8 bits Mode 0x0365: 1440x900 (+5760), 24 bits Mode 0x0368: 1680x1050 (+1680), 8 bits Mode 0x0369: 1680x1050 (+6720), 24 bits Mode 0x037c: 1920x1200 (+1920), 8 bits Mode 0x037d: 1920x1200 (+7680), 24 bits Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
phil
Upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04 on Friday. Screen went black on reboot.
Previous versions(for example: 2.6.35-28 ) would boot up fine.
Dell Latitude D630
Graphics card: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M
Thanks to all the suggestions, after 2 days of trying different things suggested in this thread, I finally got my system to boot with 2.6.38-8.
1) changed /etc/default/grub
and subsequently ranCode:GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="acpi=off splash"
I haven't checked Unity desktop yet, but Gnome desktop is working normally as before.Code:sudo update-grub
i cannot even go to grub menu.. my screen just flicker switching from terminal to blank each seconds.. what to do.?
the only key combination it recognises is <ctrl>+<alt>+<del>
my laptop (vaio E series) uses ATI radeon which works previously on 10.10, with 4 Gb of ram..
using i5..
i uses ubuntu, like 2 month maybe..
so i tried to upgrade from the last version to the current 11.04
made a live usb, and it worked flawlessly whilst booting from usb
install seemed to go well
now when i boot from HDD i get splash screen, log in to my user account as usual, then all hell breaks loose
generic ubuntu background occasinally interupted with flashing boxes of text, that seem to be various upgrade requests, etc but no desktop, nothing as far as hot keys working blah
again, running 11.04 off of live usb is working fine.
wtf? lol any ideas for this total idiot?
Hmm. I know this chip was Ubuntu challenged until about a little over a year ago when they made some driver changes, but has been fine since then, through the 195 series of drivers.
NVidia 8600 graphics on which/what kind of laptop? Laptop's add a few more variables such as "backlighting." I have quite a few various nvidia cards here and I've always had a liking for their chipdets. What I've noticed on them is that from the start "nomodeset" usually turns off KVM long enough to get the nVidia drvers loaded...
Please post your xorg.conf and your ~/.xsession.errors and we'll see what may be going on.
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