On 31/03/14 18:00, Liam Proven wrote:
On 31 March 2014 17:11, Barry Titterton <titterton.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I have recently converted a desk top machine from XP to Unbuntu but have a
small problem with the graphics during start up.
The machine has a legacy Nvidia graphics card (6800LE). I installed Ubuntu
13.10 as the only OS on the machine. The installer used the Nouveau graphics
driver as the default for the Nvidia card but it gave problems so I used
Software & Updates > Additional Drivers to change to the propriety
nvidia-304-updates driver.
The problem is when I start the machine, after the BIOS text screen, the
screen now goes black with only the following two lines of text on the
screen:-
Ubuntu 13.10 <name> tty1
<name> login:
(Where <name> is the ID of the machine)
I then wait for approx 30 seconds, without touching the keyboard, and the
machine will eventually go to the normal log-in screen. I can then log-in to
Unity as normal, and everything works fine.
So you will see that this pause at the tty1 screen is more of an annoyance
than a problem. It also gives a poor impression to people that I am trying
to convert to Ubuntu. I have tried Google but all of the issues that I have
found refer to a total loss of display rather that this temporary pause
during boot. Can anyone suggest a way of stopping this pause?
Sounds like the kernel is unable to do mode-switching, so you're
seeing some of the startup messages.
In the past, I've got round this by specifying the monitor's actual
resolution - or something close, e.g. right vertical resolution - in
GRUB with `nomodeset` and `vga=792` or whatever.
Hi Liam,
Have tried 'nomodeset' in a temporary way by accessing GRUB during boot,
but have not set it as a permanent option. It had no noticable effect on
the boot behaviour. I have not tried 'vga=792'.
Barry
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