Ubuntu
ubiquity package

  1. Bug #150930
  2. Comment #65

Comment 65 for bug 150930

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Harvey Muller (hlmuller) wrote : Re: Black screen, and bad usplash.conf

Rene,

I can confirm that I should have paid greater attention to detail. I apologize to any I may have inconvenienced by communicating BAD information. On another hunch last night, I checked /etc/apt/sources.list to confirm that I was indeed using amd64, and not i386. To my horror and deep embarrassment, i386 was installed. i386 never had a problem with my hardware configuration, only amd64. I apparently burned the i386 ISO to disk twice, thinking one of them was amd64. So I went back and retrieved the correct amd64 ISO which is dated 16 October.

To make amends for my error, I performed deeper testing of both ISO architectures, and resolved the usplash problem with amd64 on the Inspiron 1420. The solution is similar to orange2k's:

    1024x748 16-bit resolution set using startupmanager
    fbcon and vesafb added to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules (vga16fb not needed in my case)
    "blacklist vesafb" commented out in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer

Harvey