Comment 147 for bug 563878

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 563878] Re: Ubuntu splashscreen big and ugly after installing ATI/nVidia proprietary graphics driver

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:29:01AM -0000, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> I confirm #140: With my Nvidia video card, after a clean install of
> 11.10, the monitor only shows "Video mode not supported" from boot until
> gdm.

Unfortunately, VBE doesn't give us EDID information about supported monitor
resolutions. You can set GRUB_GFXMODE in /etc/default/grub to a supported
value and rerun 'sudo update-grub' to get graphical output.

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