Lubuntu - Vesa Mode

[alms66]

Hi,

I ran the Lubuntu 10.04 disk on an old computer of mine, but the graphics card is not supported. It's an old ati card. If I run the disk live, in vesa mode, the thing runs just fine though. So I installed Lubuntu, assuming I'd be able to find a way to get it to always boot in vesa mode and thus bypass the graphics card not being supported. Unfortunately, I can't find the method to do this. Can someone here help?

[rockdoctor]

Hi,

I ran the Lubuntu 10.04 disk on an old computer of mine, but the graphics card is not supported. It's an old ati card. If I run the disk live, in vesa mode, the thing runs just fine though. So I installed Lubuntu, assuming I'd be able to find a way to get it to always boot in vesa mode and thus bypass the graphics card not being supported. Unfortunately, I can't find the method to do this. Can someone here help?

Try adding xdriver=vesa to the kernel options (I use grub legacy; not sure how to do it properly with grub2)

[edward]

I would like to know if this worked as well. As there is no longer an xorg.conf file (unless one uses one from an older distro), there seems to be no easy way to change the video driver. I have Ubuntu (with LXDE) installed on a laptop with an ATi Radeon chip and regardless of which desktop GUI that is used, there have been many instances of video corruption...

[rockdoctor]

The following, extracted from isolinux/gfxboot.cfg on the lubuntu-lucid-beta2.iso is the code used to boot into vesa mode.

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label xforcevesa=Safe graphics mode
append xforcevesa=xforcevesa nomodeset
applies xforcevesa=live live-install

Adding the append line above to grub.cfg should let you boot into vesa mode when booting from your hard drive.