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-- Sorry about the delayed response -- (Medial Treatments)
Both Jim and I have some hardware with Intel GPU's... Usually have no problems with them and Ubuntu. I'll do some checking to see if there's something particular with "your" hardware combination.
Was this on a new/fresh install of 11.04 or an upgrade from 10.10?
From what you described, if on a fresh install, I would just reinstall and see if it's still the same (before investing more time and resources).
EDIT- Where in the process (meaning what screen) is it getting to where you are describing this? After thinking about this, I was thinking if this is "NOT" at the GDM screen / meanig that it gets passed GDM and trying to the panels... then it would be a compiz or nautilus issue... which reinstalling or fixng with a few commands would fix it. I would need to know "where" it was getting to before any of that.
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I seem to be having the same problem as many... I've just fresh installed Ubuntu 11.04, the LiveCD runs fine yet, but after install my monitor displays a black screen stating "Cannot display this video mode". I've tried CTRL + ALT + F1 - 6 but nothing happens.
It's not booting Grub for some reason.
Following this thread, I've tried commenting out GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 and changing GRUG_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT to = "quiet splash vga=775"
Tried GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text
Tried installing the whole nvidia-current and running nvidia-xconfig from page 1.
I've also tried booting from the LiveCD and selecting nomodeset etc. to no effect.
There's a lot of information in this thread, and I'm trying to take it all in and figure out what's useful in my case. Just going through a lot of trial and error, but I've been at it all day now and would really appreciate if anyone could point me in the right direction
My monitor's optimal resolution is 1280x1024 and I have an old nvidia graphics card (7600GT).
[Update]
I missed a key piece of information among all the text:
After making changed to /etc/default/grub, you need to run
sudo update-grub
I did this after mounting the hard drive (as per nvidia tutorial on page one)
Grub now boots into text more. \o/
Last edited by Lord C; August 21st, 2011 at 12:40 AM.
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Hello,
I am having the same blinking cursor problem but none of the short cut keys work for me including shift. I'm pretty new to this so could you please explain how I edit the grub when I can't get to anything?
Thanks in advance
James
Here's some instructions I wrote for someone else to tweak Grub2 when it wants to "hide." They will work for you also. You may have to boot from a LiveCD and go to a terminal to edit the files to do this...
Hope this gets you further along...
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the new stable natty totally locked up machine and I spent the last five hours getting to restart with anything..
Okay.... So does that translate to (?) you had been using 11.04 and was fine, but then tried 11.04 again today and was not? That after 5 hours, you are now fine again?
Your post is a little vague... Are you having a problem and do you need assistance?
Edit-- I was not aware there was a "new stable" 11.04... 11.04 would be a snapshot with user added incremental updates.
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MAFoElffen:
I've seen that method described a bit differently recently. The information said to 'hit the shift key repeatedly' instead of holding it down. I've had it work by holding down, and hitting it repeatedly too. Have you seen that too?Next, I have users that go to my graphics sticky and said they couldn't get to a grub menu via holding down a shift key during boot
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When I started this sticky (back in May?*) , that's the way I recommended to people... and I still think is the preferred method for people to try first.
The GNU Grub Doc's say to hold down the <shift> key on boot <> But having about 7-8 test machine's here and via helping other users for a while... That seems to cause a keyboard overflow in over half of them.
If it still doesn't work--- then this other method will force it.
Notes:
* - Actually I started writing this sticky during Dev testing for 11.04... Knowing it was going to become an issue for users.
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