[clue-tech] Ubuntu lock-up problems

[Roy J. Tellason]

> > I cannot switch Kubuntu, which is installed, to VGA.  I found that there
> > is no VGA driver.  I also tried VESA, and there is a VESA driver, but it
> > won't run.  The fglrx driver fails too.  Only the radeon driver wants to
> > run.
>
> My bad.  The VGA driver is called "vesa".  It's a generic driver for
> VESA standards that runs in basic 800x600 (might do 1024x768) in up to
> 24bit mode.  See "man vesa".

FWIW,  the Slackware install I did last on the machine out in the other room,  
a version or so behind the 12.1 I'm running on this machine,  defaulted to 
that for some reason.  Only it wasn't 800x600,  it was 640x480.  Ick!  :-)

I'm really glad to have gotten that one worked out,  though I forget just what 
I had to do to make that happen.  I suspect that it was booting something 
else entirely (Knoppix maybe?) that allowed for different resolutions and 
then mounting the HD and copying that info down to the config file.


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