Comment 6 for bug 891947

From USB stick (try out Ubuntu), sudo randr -q gives...

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192
DVI-I-1 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 432mm x 324mm
   1920x1200 60.0*+
   1920x1080 60.0
   1600x1200 60.0
   1680x1050 60.0
   1280x1024 75.0 60.0
   1280x960 75.0
   1024x768 75.1 60.0
   800x600 75.0 60.3
   640x480 75.0 60.0
   720x400 70.1
DVI-I-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

I'll attach output from inside the broken install next. I tried to install "read-edid" into my USB stick, but the package doesn't exist according to apt-get and the software center. And I don't want to apt-get update/upgrade in case that breaks everything.

According to the Xorg.0.log file the USB stick is using the NOUVEAU driver ('Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)'). I think that is probably why it works and my installed version doesn't (it installed the proprietary driver by default). That seems bad that the Nvidia offered driver has problems (if true).

And Grub2's menu displays correctly at what I'm guessing is the default screen resolution. The text is super tiny compared what what I used to see back with 10.10, which I think was using 640x480.