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For some reason Ubu' has set the screen refresh to 28Hz, which is lower
than your screen can handle ("out of range"). Try Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to
a TTY login screen - this uses a different mode and should still work. <br>
<br>
You can login and use xrandr to set the resolution in use by x
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-adjust-screen-resolution-on-ubuntu.html">http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-adjust-screen-resolution-on-ubuntu.html</a>)
, it only lasts for this session. Then use Ctrl+Alt+F7 to flick back to
X and you should see your Ubuntu desktop, or at least GDM's login
dialog.<br>
<br>
To make it permanent you can add the xrandr line that works to your
~/.xprofile or to kdm or gdm config files. Though once you've got to
Gnome you should just use the utilities to set it right.<br>
<br>
xorg.conf in Ubu' is a sparse file now I think, but I gather you can
still set resolution there to be used, YMMV.<br>
<br>
You may also be able to just do Ctrl+Alt+NumpadPlus or NumpadMinus from
your original point but I'd caution against this as it's possible to
attempt to use modes that may damage your monitor (though for you it
seems the monitor is designed to avoid this).<br>
<br>
HTH.<br>
<br>
pbhj<br>
<br>
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Hen Glowr wrote:
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valign="top">Started up the pc and then entered the BIOS to change
boot-sequence so that the "Live CD" would load. The disk loaded but
before the Ubuntu screen appeared a screen full of different colors
appeared for a few seconds but other wise everything went well.<br>
<br>
Opened a terminal and typed: sudo fdisk -l and this was the output:<br>
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l<br>
<br>
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes<br>
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders<br>
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>
Disk identifier: 0x2527a2c7<br>
<br>
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>
/dev/sda1 * 1 1019 8185086 83 Linux<br>
/dev/sda2 1020 19457 148103235 5 Extended<br>
/dev/sda5 1020 1528 4088511 82 Linux
swap / Solaris<br>
/dev/sda6 1529 19457 144014661 83 Linux<br>
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ <br>
<br>
So i took a chance and tried to install Ubuntu and everything appeared
to go well. I did select the option to "use entire disk" and that was
it.<br>
<br>
But when the installation had finished i was told to remove the "live
CD" from the tray and click on enter, which i did. I also during the
restart took the opportunity to change the boot-sequence back so that
the new OS would load from the hard drive.<br>
<br>
Upon restart everything was going great. The Ubuntu screen and the
progress bar appeared along with the words: routine ch. Which lasted
for about 30 seconds. Then this disapeared to be replaced in the bottom
left of the screen with the words: <br>
<br>
Analog RGB<br>
1280 x 1024 / 28hz<br>
Out of Range and that was it! <br>
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