Comment 155 for bug 129910
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| gwi (george-willegers) wrote Re: tty[1-6] are active but display nothing in Gutsy | #155 |
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(Get the code!)
Best results I got so far:
- used startupmanager to set resolution to 1280x1024 (could do this manually, but wanted to try this way);
- manually removed vga=794 setting from boot parameters in /boot/grub/
- no changes to the default modules list or blacklists.
I now have a proper startup and shutdown screen with progress bar (and with text if I select that option in startupmanager).
tty1-6 have the proper font, but an incorrect resolution (probably 640x480, it's 80x30 characters). I think I will leave it like this, until the Ubuntu guys come up with a real solution.
Loading modules fbcon and vesafb lead to a bunch of green blocks on a black and unresponsive tty1.
Loading modules fbcon and vga16fb lead to a low resolution tty1, with an ugly font, and a fucked up shutdown screen, also at 640x480, with colors so bad that you can hardly see what's there.
In the mean time I have seen some very strange things happening, like the X screen getting blank while loading the desktop. The monitor power light starts blinking. After pressing a key or moving the mouse the screen returns (and the monitor shows "digital" for a few seconds, so there really was no signal).