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no display after update

Asked by Gary Gough

After the recent update, I rebooted to restart firefox, I now have a blank monitor, no text or graphics at all. Is there any way to force at least a command line interface ? The audio happens when I'd expect it, so the system is booting, just not in a usable form.

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Gary Gough (gwiz) said : 		#1

Ok, it turns out that it just lost the resolution the monitor will support, forcing a lower resolution with a different monitor got it working, And the original monitor now also works at a reduced resolution. Monitor is an LG L1910S , which now only runs at 1024 by 768.

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Best Vihar (vmankov) said : 		#2

You can try recovering options: on the Ubuntu-boot very start press a few times Esc and choose recover option. Then you'll have an option "Fix graphical problems".

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Gary Gough (gwiz) said : 		#3

Vihar wrote:
> Your question #82576 on xorg in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+question/82576
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Vihar proposed the following answer:
> You can try recovering options: on the Ubuntu-boot very start press a
> few times Esc and choose recover option. Then you'll have an option "Fix
> graphical problems".
>
>
 Good to know in the future, thanks. I'm hoping that whatever killed the
high res options for that monitor get cured on the next update too. It
was working fine at 1280 before the update, oh well too many
combinations of hardware to ever be able to predict all the interactions.

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Gary Gough (gwiz) said : 		#4

Third reboot and suddenly I have the full range of options and it's working again. No idea what cured the problem any more then what caused it. The ESC button is still good to know about. Thanks to all who looked at this.

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Gary Gough (gwiz) said : 		#5

Thanks Vihar, that solved my question.

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Vihar (vmankov) said : 		#6

I'm with the old generation and always open my second pair of eyes when I'm installing something.
I suppose, Gary, you omited something crucial when you installed Ubuntu.
But it's not your fault - I think the installing messages (or guides) of 9.04 are much of mess for a person not being in trouble yet with this. And they HAVE to think about this - we already told them.