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    Exclamation frequency out of range problem in ubuntu natty grub

    The grub that is installed with ubuntu natty narwhal is not working on my system properly.My monitor(or cpu,I don't know it properly) gives me a message that the frequency is out of range and advises me to lower the resolution.I don't see the grub menu and the monitor turns off and starts again getting me directly into ubuntu desktop.I did a new complete reinstall from maverick.Can someone please tell me how to fix this problem.Any kind of help will be
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    Re: frequency out of range problem in ubuntu natty grub

    I just had this problem too. It happened when I updated from 10.10 to 11.04 so that might be a good place to look for the solution...

    What I did was I opened my Grub config in /etc/default/grub (You may need to open this with sudo with the following command:
    Code:
    sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
    )
    Then find the line with
    Code:
    # 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=640*400
    Un-comment the last line and change it to a supported resolution for your monitor.
    (I used 800*600, and pretty much any resolution below 1024*786 should work.)

    Then the last thing you need to do is type
    Code:
    sudo update-grub
    and it will automatically update your Grub configuration files.
    Last edited by JgsDragon; April 30th, 2011 at 04:36 PM.

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    Re: frequency out of range problem in ubuntu natty grub

    I met the very same problem when I uppdated from 10.10 to 11.04 yesterday . The monitor, an Acer AL2416W, reports "out of range" at bootstage, and at quitting.

    I will try the proposed solution.

    UPPDATE: Thank you, the proposed solution did solve the problem!
    Last edited by heke; April 30th, 2011 at 07:21 PM.

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    Re: frequency out of range problem in ubuntu natty grub

    you're much more lucky than me if yours is just a chitty chatty annotation: right before entering the grub, my screen (a benq) just leaves me with that out of range message and i can't seem to adjust anything there's mounted on my hd.

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    Re: frequency out of range problem in ubuntu natty grub

    Quote Originally Posted by JgsDragon View Post
    I just had this problem too. It happened when I updated from 10.10 to 11.04 so that might be a good place to look for the solution...

    What I did was I opened my Grub config in /etc/default/grub (You may need to open this with sudo with the following command:
    Code:
    sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
    )
    Then find the line with
    Code:
    # 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=640*400
    Un-comment the last line and change it to a supported resolution for your monitor.
    (I used 800*600, and pretty much any resolution below 1024*786 should work.)

    Then the last thing you need to do is type
    Code:
    sudo update-grub
    and it will automatically update your Grub configuration files.
    This worked for me on my system with an nVidia card only after I installed the proprietary drivers. Now it works ok for me. YMMV, I guess.
    Last edited by perspectoff; May 1st, 2011 at 02:07 AM.

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    Re: frequency out of range problem in ubuntu natty grub

    When I try to boot, monitor tells me something like "out of range". The computer does not shutdown or anything like this, but the message stays on the screen. I tried to chroot from live cd and edit grub settings (as written above). I rebooted it and it stays the same (still nothing happens). Does anyone have an idea what could be the problem?

    Edit: Nevermind the above solution seems to have worked after all.
    Last edited by m8i9k; May 7th, 2011 at 10:25 PM.

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    Re: frequency out of range problem in ubuntu natty grub

    Apologies if this seems like a stupid question but how do you uncomment the line. I assume that you just remove the # from the beginning of the line; is that correct?

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    Re: frequency out of range problem in ubuntu natty grub

    Quote Originally Posted by raziel09 View Post
    Apologies if this seems like a stupid question but how do you uncomment the line. I assume that you just remove the # from the beginning of the line; is that correct?
    Yes, that's exactly what it means.

    I had the same problem and the solution worked for me too. Thanks a lot.

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    Re: frequency out of range problem in ubuntu natty grub

    Quote Originally Posted by m8i9k View Post
    When I try to boot, monitor tells me something like "out of range". The computer does not shutdown or anything like this, but the message stays on the screen. I tried to chroot from live cd and edit grub settings (as written above). I rebooted it and it stays the same (still nothing happens). Does anyone have an idea what could be the problem?

    Edit: Nevermind the above solution seems to have worked after all.
    Im also getting like this plz tel me any one how to fix this problem im waiting for your answer.....

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    Re: frequency out of range problem in ubuntu natty grub

    I'm having a different but related problem. I have Ubuntu 11.10 installed on an old Fujitsu Lifebook p2110. It was installed originally from an older version Minimal CD and upgraded in place.

    The Lifebook has an 867mhz Transmeta CPU, 256MB RAM (of which the CPU grabs 16MB off the top for code morphing), and a 40GB UDMA 4 HD, multibooting Win2K Pro, Ubuntu, Puppy 4.31, and FreeDOS. Video is handled by an onboard ATI Rage Pro Mobility chipset with 8MB video RAM. Ubuntu properly recognizes the chipset's maximum 1280x768 resolution in 16bit color, and the GUI uses it.

    The problem is character mode screens _not_ using the GUI. I get a screen that is black text on a white background, and the text is garbled and unreadable.

    If I go into the grub menu entry at boot time, and manually specify the boot commands including "set GFXMODE=1280x768", I see the character mode screen I expect, and I can switch to another display using Ctrl-Alt-F1 or the like and have a usable character mode session.

    I followed directions elsewhere to update /etc/default/grub to uncomment the GRUB_GFXMODE line, and set the resolution the 1280x768, then did an update-grub operation to regenerate the grub.cfg file. All appeared to work as expected, but when I rebooted and selected Ubuntu from the grub menu, I saw the same garbled character mode screen display I was trying to fix. It works manually changing the boot options form the grub menu, but fails when it does it automatically.

    Am I missing something, or have I been bitten by an 11.10 bug?
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    Dennis

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