Comment 55 for bug 150930
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| John Jason Jordan (johnxj) wrote Re: Black screen, and bad usplash.conf | #55 |
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I have a new install of Gutsy amd64 on a brand new Thinkpad T61. The video is nVidia Quadro NVS 140M (rev a1).
I have tried all the fixes here without success. My most recent attempt was brettalton's post. The command after rebooting does not seem to have generated a menu.diff file, but it did create a usplash.diff file, which shows the following:
--- /home/jjj/
+++ /home/jjj/
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
# Usplash configuration file
-xres=1024
-yres=768
+xres=1280
+yres=1024
Now, the reason it added 1280 x 1024 in the resolutions is because startupmanager listed that as an option and I chose it. Previously I had set it to 1024 x 768 by manually editing usplash.conf.
I should add that the fresh install of Gutsy (no other OS has ever been installed) did not detect the video. It took a lot of poking to get it finally running at 1680 x 1050, which is the native resolution of the screen, including manually editing xorg.conf with the name of the video from the lspci command, and installing the nvidia-glx-new driver.
I suppose I need to go through startupmanager over and over trying various resolution and color depth options. That's a lot of options to try, though. I think the problem is related to the fact that the video card is not autodetected. Iwonder if there is a way to tell startupmanager what the video card is.
The reason I asked that is because of my experience when I built myself a new desktop several months ago. It had nVidia GeForce 6150 on the motherboard. Fedora 7 amd64 autodetected it and set the monitor to 1680 x 1050. Feisty amd64 did not detect it and set the video to 1024 x 768 VESA. I was told that each distro has a somewhat different list of video cards in a file somewhere and that is what it uses to figure out what video card to set up. If that is the case (and I don't understand much of this), then editing that file and adding my video card to it might resolve a lot of problems. But I'm just a linguistics major struggling here with little knowledge of Linux.