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Broken Lucid

Oops .. I upgraded one of the Ubuntu installations to Lucid and now the video (and of course X) is broken .. Should have did a little research first before upgrading .. tsk tsk .. oh well. fortunately it was just a testing installation.

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Jun 19, 2010
Ray Chuan Tay said...
Hi! Your cousin here! I presume you're running Ubuntu in a VM? I hit something similar too - I couldn't run it at a different resolution. Luckily I had taken a snapshot so I could switch back pretty easily.
Jun 19, 2010
Alvin Loh said...
Yo Cuz :) How are you doing man ... anyway . I fixed it on the same day .. If you are using Virtualbox .. just use the latest version .. it should fix the video resolution problem ..
Jun 19, 2010
Ray Chuan Tay said...
No go even on VB 3.2.4 - try booting with vga=789 (for 800x600) to see what I mean.
Jun 19, 2010
Alvin Loh said...
Erm.. why are you tweaking the vga modes ?? I think its deprecated . What is the host OS ? Did you manage to get to the Desktop in the VM ? Did you install Virtualbox tools ?
Jun 19, 2010
Ray Chuan Tay said...
Really?? What's the current way to do this, if that's the case?

I didn't go through the install process - I booted the install CD with vga=xxx and the install screen was...fuzzed. If the installer won't work, I don't expect the installed system to work too.

Hmm, I presume that I *could* change the resolution in X, but I don't intend to install a DE. That's why I'm changing vga=xxx - to get a nice, big console.

Jun 19, 2010
Alvin Loh said...
If you want a console only without DE environment, then grab the server edition instead .. it doesn't install with a DE .. (you can apt-get DE if you need it later) .. If you want to use the desktop version .. install it without setting the VGA parameter .. let it install properly (virtualbox will set the correct resolution ... it won't be fuzzed) .. and use sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove .. it should boot you into console mode ..

however, if you are fiddling with the vga parameters IF you boot into console mode .. I don't know if that's supported in Virtualbox .. due to the framebuffer stuff ..

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