reset the usplash resolution

Asked by Jeff Fortin Tam

I recently swapped out an nvidia geforce with DVI out to LCD for a radeon 7000 with VGA out to the same LCD monitor.

The radeon card is using the open source ati driver.

However, whenever I start or shutdown the computer, instead of seeing usplash, I see my monitor complaining that it is off limits.

A liveCD does not have this problem, so I figured out that there should be a way to "reset" usplash's resolutions?

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Christoph Langner (chrissss) said :
#1

You can set the resolution of usplash inside the file /etc/usplash.conf

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# Usplash configuration file
xres=1280
yres=1024
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Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo) said :
#2

I set /etc/usplash.conf to be like this (which is exactly the same as when running the live DVD):

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# Usplash configuration file
xres=
yres=
---

However, it did not solve the problem. Are there other places that could govern this?

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Christoph Langner (chrissss) said :
#3

Which Version of Ubuntu do you use?

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Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo) said :
#4

7.10 clean installed (but I did not reinstall between swapping video cards, I'd like to avoid that)

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Best Christoph Langner (chrissss) said :
#5

Perhaps this happens beceause Ubuntu removed the framebuffer kernel modules out of gutsy, take a look into this posting

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I had the same problem, but I found a solution:

sudo gedit /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
add the following

vga16fb
fbcon
vesafb

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer
comment out the following (add prefix #) so it would look like:

# blacklist vesafb
# blacklist vga16fb

last but not least, run the following in a terminal

sudo update-initramfs -u
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http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3668237&postcount=7

CU
Christoph

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Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo) said :
#6

It worked! Thank you very much for your guidance :)

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Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo) said :
#7

Thanks Christoph Langner, that solved my question.