Bernaard

I have a Dell Optiplex GX 270 in my office, with a Dell 1703 FP flat panel screen. When I installed Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04), the splash screen never turned up. Few of the video modes you specify in Grub will work, except from vga=773. This problem occurs with some other computers from Dell – and other vendors, perhaps? Although it is not a huge problem, it is annoying. The solution is simple:

1. Fire up a bash terminal.
2. Type # sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
3. Scroll down to the uppermost boot entry, and add vga=773 to the kernel line:

## End Default Options ##title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=UUID=83020353-3bdb-46a6-81c6-f521c5492d74 ro quiet splash vga=773
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic
quiet
savedefault

4. Reboot, and you should be fine!

Please note that you must repeat this procedure if the kernel is updated.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 at 8:19 am and is filed under The Digital Sphere.