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: netinst bad display after first screen

2019-06-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/06/2019 à 18:58, Blair, Charles E III a écrit : 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 kernel may fix the issue on s

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: netinst bad display after first screen

2019-06-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/06/2019 à 13:51, Blair, Charles E III a écrit : I had hoped the "row of thumbnails at top of blank screen" was a well-known, easily fixed, problem. Well known, yes. Easily fixed, no. It is an issue with the graphic EFI driver. A newer kernel may fix the issue. A common workaround is t

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

Re: netinst bad display after first screen

2019-05-31 Thread Felix Miata
Blair, Charles E III composed on 2019-05-31 20:40 (UTC): >I have downloaded the current netinst and > burned it to a DVD. I burned mine to CD. :p >When I boot it, the first screen I see shows > the usual beginning with choices "Graphics Install," > "Install," "Advanced". >I choose

Re: netinst bad display after first screen

2019-05-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-05-31 4:40 p.m., Blair, Charles E III wrote: I have downloaded the current netinst and burned it to a DVD. When I boot it, the first screen I see shows the usual beginning with choices "Graphics Install," "Install," "Advanced". I choose "Install" and press F10. The moni