Corrupted boot screen

[Gionatan Danti]

This can be similar to bug #877278

I have a Dell Latitude E6410 w/docking station, with video output redirected to an external LCD panel. After a clean install of 11.10 and a reboot the screen remain blank, except for the X cursor. If I open Dell's cover and I use the integrated screen, I can see some corruption (the o.s. list can not be read) and finally the lxde spash screen.

Solution: uncomment the line "GRUB_TERMINAL=console" in /etc/default/grub.conf and then run grub-update. After these two steps, the boot screen is no longer corrupted (I can see o.s. list correctly) and X start just fine, both on the integrated display and my external LCD panel.

Thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: grub-pc 1.99-12ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 20 18:03:51 2011
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

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