William_in_Kanata
Oct 25th 2010, 03:38 AM
Kubuntu 10.10 Desktop 64 Bit
Install boots up correctly, and first screen is display correctly. Select "Start Kubuntu", and system starts to read the CD, and screen clears momentarily, and then the screen displays "kubuntu" and a series of dots are displayed, sequentially changing from blue to white and the back to white and so on. About a minute or so later, the screen flickers several times and then goes black, and the monitor displays a self-generated error message saying "Out Of Scan Range 122.6KHz/112 Hz. The system appears to continue to read the CD, for another minute or so, and then all activity stops. I assume that it is now at the initial Install set up screen which the monitor is unable to display.
The monitor is a Sun Micro system Monitor, but it has no model number or other information on it. It was working fine with the old system (Unbuntu 8.04).
The CD is good. The check-sum calculated from the CD matches that provided in MD5SUMS on the download web site page.
I have tried adding various vga startup parameters to the boot line without success.
F4 does not offer a "Safe Graphics Mode" option on the first screen. I tried booting with noapci, acpi=off, nomodeset from the F6 menu. Same result.
Using nolapci goes staight to a black screen and the process hangs.
I tried the oem install - same result.
At a loss to know what to try next.
I think what puzzles me is why the install would try to change the video mode. It works fine initially. If it ain't broke, why fix it?
Thanks for your time.
Install boots up correctly, and first screen is display correctly. Select "Start Kubuntu", and system starts to read the CD, and screen clears momentarily, and then the screen displays "kubuntu" and a series of dots are displayed, sequentially changing from blue to white and the back to white and so on. About a minute or so later, the screen flickers several times and then goes black, and the monitor displays a self-generated error message saying "Out Of Scan Range 122.6KHz/112 Hz. The system appears to continue to read the CD, for another minute or so, and then all activity stops. I assume that it is now at the initial Install set up screen which the monitor is unable to display.
The monitor is a Sun Micro system Monitor, but it has no model number or other information on it. It was working fine with the old system (Unbuntu 8.04).
The CD is good. The check-sum calculated from the CD matches that provided in MD5SUMS on the download web site page.
I have tried adding various vga startup parameters to the boot line without success.
F4 does not offer a "Safe Graphics Mode" option on the first screen. I tried booting with noapci, acpi=off, nomodeset from the F6 menu. Same result.
Using nolapci goes staight to a black screen and the process hangs.
I tried the oem install - same result.
At a loss to know what to try next.
I think what puzzles me is why the install would try to change the video mode. It works fine initially. If it ain't broke, why fix it?
Thanks for your time.