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stoneheart
February 12th, 2010, 03:02 PM
My monitor recent died and I'm using an old CRT as a replacement for now. I get an error when Ubuntu starts saying it could not find a framebuffer compatible device. It then gives me the option to boot into low res mode which I accept. Once I login, the display actually looks fine, but I would like to get rid of the error message.

Anyone know how to remove framebuffer usage from the bootup process? A text display is fine. I looked in my xorg.conf, but I didn't find anything that I could tinker with.

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Jose Catre-Vandis
February 12th, 2010, 04:29 PM
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Option "UseFBDev" "true" <<<
EndSection

EndSection

Change "true" <<< to false :D

(FB - framebuffer)

stoneheart
February 12th, 2010, 05:32 PM
Thanks, Jose! I'll try it when I get home.