ASUS F3SC-AS218E here, with GeForce 8400M. I was testing all Tribes
and RC of Ubuntu Gutsy and recently I installed it from official ISO.
I have nvidia-glx-new driver installed by Restricted Drivers Manager
and I have obviously noticed problems with black virtual terminals.
Since this notebook has 1440x900 screen I tried at first to enable
this or similarly high resolution. However, my attempts proved I was
able to turn on only 1024x768.
The following applies only to this kernel (it works as I type):
$ uname -a
Linux ghost 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Here's the procedure I've used to enable high resolution on consoles:
1. Select font used in framebuffer mode:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
* select "Fixed" font or any other you like/prefer
ASUS F3SC-AS218E here, with GeForce 8400M. I was testing all Tribes
and RC of Ubuntu Gutsy and recently I installed it from official ISO.
I have nvidia-glx-new driver installed by Restricted Drivers Manager
and I have obviously noticed problems with black virtual terminals.
Since this notebook has 1440x900 screen I tried at first to enable
this or similarly high resolution. However, my attempts proved I was
able to turn on only 1024x768.
The following applies only to this kernel (it works as I type):
$ uname -a
Linux ghost 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Here's the procedure I've used to enable high resolution on consoles:
1. Select font used in framebuffer mode:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
* select "Fixed" font or any other you like/prefer
2. Modify kernel parameters:
$ sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
* change:
# defoptions=quiet splash locale=pl_PL
* to:
# defoptions=vga=791 quiet splash locale=pl_PL
3. Make sure the changes are applied:
$ sudo update-grub
4. Modify usplash configuration:
$ sudo nano /etc/usplash.conf
* change:
xres=
yres=
* to:
xres=1024
yres=768
5. Enable modules autoloading: tools/modules
$ sudo nano /etc/initramfs-
* at the end of file add:
fbcon
vesafb
vga16fb
6. Remove modules from blacklist: d/blacklist- framebuffer
$ sudo nano /etc/modprobe.
* change:
blacklist vesafb
blacklist vga16fb
* to:
# blacklist vesafb
# blacklist vga16fb
7. Just in case:
$ sudo depmod -a
8. Apply all changes in one go, including initrd generation:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure usplash
After restart all is right, just like it was in Feisty.