problem: when the wee boys edubuntu box starts up, im getting 'cannot display this video mode' when i should be seeing usplash. the live cd displayed nice graphical usplash, but after install, black screen, white font. without getting out this seat (and im listening to the football) hes got an nvidia chipset graphics card and a dell 15" flatscreen monitor of some kind.
what im not doing: risking the install... the wee boy loves his classic arcade games (mame) and his box is now a mythtv backend when he is at his mums (more about this another day). i dont really want to reinstall...
google helps (as always) and first stop is checking the usplash config file:
less /etc/usplash.conf
this reads:
# Usplash configuration file
xres=1280
yres=1024
doesnt match current config (1024x768), so sudo gedit and altered usplash config file. then, the magic:
sudo initramfs-update -u
and sweat for a few seconds... reading lets me understand that as of 2.6 kernels, some initialisation can be shifted from the kernel to userspace, and loaded before initrd's. more reading https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Initramfs
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