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Re: [LUG] Install Screen Res

 

Terry Hill wrote:
Are you able to plug in a different monitor to get Ubuntu installed?


For the hell of it I grabbed the monitor off the games pc and tried
the live disk again - this is a hyundai that seems to support pretty
much anything you can throw at it up to about 1280x1024 including a
few wide screen modes like 1440x900.  It also had a problem much to my
surprise, displaying the following:

"Mode not supported H: 93.0 KHZ, V: 58.5 HZ"

The graphics card is an nvidia 7600gs, I'll have a google a sec....hmm
seems a few people have had trouble with installing nvidia drivers for
it, but not turned anything up with the live cd, perhaps it's
something specific to Karmic....ahh here we go:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nv/+bug/487361

...although I don't get as far as the "Ubuntu is running in
low-graphics mode" stage.
I've had occasional issues with NVidia cards, is there any on-board video card you can use to install, or do you have another card handy?

Otherwise I'd say your best bet is probably the alternative CD (although IIRC you might be able to use one of the F keys on the Ubuntu Live CD boot menu to select safe video or VESA mode).

Rob


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