screen settings

[Basil Chupin]

On 05/05/12 01:48, compdoc wrote:
> When my 12.04 boots, the lcd monitor shows a message that the rez or refresh
> rate is wrong and I cannot see the progress dots. However, when it's
> finished booting, the logon page shows up fine. Is there a way to see or
> change the screen settings that the system applies while its booting?
>
> Thanks

After you have logged in into your system (and now others will come out 
and tell you, "But you can also do this here...... :-( ), in a terminal, 
and as root (oh, I forgot, Ubuntu doesn't have "root" unless you go thru 
hoops).... in a terminal as user issue the command

sudo hwinfo --framebuffer

which will give you the resolutions the video card normally can handle. 
Find the one you want - let's say that it is 1920x1080 which should be 
0x031b - and enter that in the grub's start-up config file or enter it 
on the command line when you boot up the computer and you see the grub menu.

Now, there is a qualification to this.

I have a video card which does not show that it is capable of doing 
1920x1080p resolution - but it does. And it does it because I have the 
"real, full blooded, and not the pretend" nVidia driver installed. If I 
only use the "voodoo".... errr..the "noovoo" nvidia driver then I only 
get 1280x?? resolution. But install the real nVidia driver (295.40 at 
the moment) and I get 1920x1080 resolution. Just thought I would mention 
this.

BC