Out of Range message and usplash not displayed in Gutsy

[BigBoy_PDB]

When Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy is starting up, at the point where the usplash screen is supposed to be displayed there is a message (produced by the monitor) which states:
Out of Range
46.4KHz
/87Hz

The same message appeared when Ubuntu should be showing the usplash screen when it is shutting down.

In "/etc/usplash.conf" the values for xres and yres were initially:
xres=1280
yres=1024

When I changed them to:
xres=1024
yres=768
The shutdown usplash screen appeared, but the startup usplash screen did not.

When I changed them to:
xres=640
yres=480
The shutdown usplash screen again appeared, but the startup usplash screen did not.

My video card is RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO].
My monitor is an LG L1715S.

[BigBoy_PDB (bigboy-pdb)]

The usplash screen is displayed on the LiveCD

[Stanley Sokolow (overbyte)]

I get the same results -- LCD monitor reports video is over range on usplash during startup and shutdown. My monitor does not report the actual frequencies. Just the error message appears. Once X starts, the video is fine. I'm using the nVidia proprietary driver in X. I have an EVGA brand video card based on nVidia GeForce FX 5500, 128 MB DDR, AGP 8x/4X. It works fine in Ubuntu 7.04. Installation worked fine until the reboot. LiveCD is fine. I have not tried changing the video parameters in config file.

[Stanley Sokolow (overbyte)]

I now can confirm that editing /etc/usplash.conf to provide good x & y resolutions does as stated above:

In "/etc/usplash.conf" the values for xres and yres were initially:
xres=1280
yres=1024

When I changed them to:
xres=1024
yres=768
The shutdown usplash screen appeared, but the startup usplash screen did not.

(Still get message from LCD monitor saying "Signal Over Range" at bootup usplash time.)

[Stanley Sokolow (overbyte)]

This bug appears to be more or less the same as many bugs reported for usplash. Too many to list here.

[Stanley Sokolow (overbyte)]

I fixed it using the method described below from a similar bug report for usplash. I don't have the computer mentioned below, but the same solution worked on my computer (a desktop PC). My LCD monitor has 1024x768 native resolution. It now displays the startup and shutdown usplash screens correctly. This bug doesn't affect computers with monitors that can handle the higher resolution 1280x1024, so it probably has evaded being fixed by developers. The default startup resolution settings for usplash.conf should be set in installation for the lowest resolution that users will probably have, such as 800x600 or even 640x480 if usplash will display at that low res.

 sirwitti wrote on 2007-10-20: (permalink)

same problem on Acer Travelmate 4001 LMi (1024 x 768): no bootsplash at startup, but at shutdown everything was fine. and it took some minutes (more than normal) to boot.

for me worked the workaround posted by bluwShark, but even without adding a line to grub's menu.lst:

1) changed the resolution in /etc/usplash.conf to 1024x768:
   xres=1024
   yres=786
2) executed the following:
sudo update-initramfs -u -k `uname -r`

now the bootsplash woks as it should, and the boot time is normal too.
so, thank you guys for helping :)
witti

[BigBoy_PDB (bigboy-pdb)]

Thank you for the solution Stanley. It worked for me.

I posted this a while ago and I think that I had run 'sudo update-initramfs -u' (or perhaps I thought that I should run it and I forgot to do so) and there hadn't been a change, but adding the "-k" option followed by the kernel version worked.

Thanks again,
Dave

[BigBoy_PDB (bigboy-pdb)]

Sorry, what I meant to say in the above post is that I posted this bug awhile ago and that I thought that I had run 'sudo update-initramfs -u', but I forgot to post it as part of how I got the shutdown usplash screen to appear. If that was the case then adding the "-k" option with the kernel version fixed it (but either way the suggested solution fixed the whole problem).

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

Thanks a lot for that detailed bug report. This bug has been already reported and is caused by ubiquity which install bad values in /etc/usplash.conf during the installation of Linux Ubuntu Gutsy. I've seen a lot of computers including my laptop having this problem with Gutsy, we must make sure that this bug won't be in future Hardy release CDs so if you want to test the latest Hardy Install Cds from here on your hardware and keep looking at this particular bug :

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/alpha-2/

It would be a great contribution.

I set this bug as a duplicate of bug #150930 in which you can contribute and tells if this bug is fixed for you with latest Hardy release CD. If this bug is not fixed for you, don't forget to specify which graphic card you are using. You can know this by typing this command on a terminal :

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep -A 2 'Section "Device"'