Comment 26 for bug 85451

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Amit Mendapara (cristatus) wrote :

Adding `vga=791` to my grub config has fixed the problem. Here is how my grub/menu.list looks...

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title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
uuid 151f7906-5ff8-41b9-8d19-77974622c721
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=151f7906-5ff8-41b9-8d19-77974622c721 ro quiet splash vga=791
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
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Here is a portion of output of `lspci -vv`

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00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7000M (rev a2) (rev a2)
 Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0127
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23
 Region 0: Memory at f3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 Region 3: Memory at f2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 [virtual] Expansion ROM at 88000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: nvidia
 Kernel modules: nvidia, nvidiafb
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