Re: Re: netinst bad display after first screen

2019-06-01 Thread Blair, Charles E III
> You may indeed have better luck with Ubuntu's installer if it uses the > GPU specific driver. The network installer for ubuntu did work with my hardware, so that's what's on my computer now. Thanks, anyway, for your help.

Re: Re: netinst bad display after first screen

2019-06-01 Thread Blair, Charles E III
> Well known, yes. Easily fixed, no. > A newer kernel may fix the issue. > A common workaround is to boot the installer in BIOS/legacy/CSM mode > instead of EFI native mode. > setting the GRUB variables > gfxmode and/or gfxpayload to specific values (hardware dependent) > before booting the

Re: Re: netinst bad display after first screen

2019-06-01 Thread Blair, Charles E III
>The monitor then shows a row of what look like > tiny screen images at the top, with the rest of > the monitor all black. Crtl-Alt-F1, etc makes > changes in the tiny images at the top, but the > all-black rest of screen is unchanged. As you suggested, I changed the installer's >> linux