Debian :: Sizes Of Letters On Booting Screen
May 26, 2015I have Jessie on my laptop. The size of the letters during the booting screen when i choose the operating system is small for my convenience. How shall I increase the size?
View 6 RepliesI have Jessie on my laptop. The size of the letters during the booting screen when i choose the operating system is small for my convenience. How shall I increase the size?
View 6 RepliesI had to install Ubuntu 10.10 5 times before the boot problem was fixed, but only now to find that the Nvidia GE Force 3 Ti200 video card is NOT supported by the current Nvidia drivers and the legacy Nvidia 96 video drivers has a known bug which may never get fixed.Currently I am running the 1024 x 768 screen size under Nouveau, but how can I change this to 1920x1080 ? Will creating an xorg.conf file work?I did have the GE Force 3 supporting the new 1920x1080p monitors under VGA mode and the screen looked fantastic in the past.
View 1 Replies View RelatedRecently I faced a problem in typing in English in OpenSuse 11.3.When I try to type in English it shows me Greek letter and worse than that I think it is really Greek (not only in font) because when I enter my passwords or try to type a command in terminal I get error,I tested with UK and USA and all other English languages and I still have this problem. I even do reset in my keyboard layout setting and in KDE setting but it didn't help.
View 3 Replies View RelatedAfter installing lots of stuff from the main repo (letters Q though U). I, apon starting to catalog the missing software that V-Z needed (and I did not have) I found that open office would not print letters on the screen. I tried rebooting (the computer)and reinstalling (open office is what I reinsalled) and nothing worked. I then tried to type on to a txt document using Kwrite and it wored at first then it started to type symbols and a pop up on the lower left showed the symbols then ABC etc. I clicked on ABC and Kwrite worked but open office did not. If it helps I installed some program that had to do whith typing python. I need to know the following
1:Is it a bug or my mistake?
2:How do I get open office up and running?
Debian 60 (squeeze, testing) 64-bit. The window for selecting kernels at startup is NOT clear.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a machine with Squeeze that currently boots from an USB thumb drive (that was the only drive on that box, referenced as SDA in /dev... Yep, no optical drive or HDD). I have installed an SSD on that machine. It is referenced a SDA, and the thumb drive has been nudged to SDB. I'd like to boot from the SSD and ditch the thumb.
I've partitioned and formatted the new Disk (ext4), created a swap file (to keep things simple, no swap partition), and used rsync -Sax / /media/USB0/ to clone the content of the root FS. I've edited the fstab file of the SSD to match the config (uuid of the drive, ext4 FS, swap file) then use grub-mkconfig -o /media/USB0/boot/grub/grub.cfg (I apt-get installed grub 2)
I've set the SSD as first boot device in the BIOS. Now when I boot from the SSD, all I get is a blinking cursor at the top of the screen (the thumb drive still boots fine). I guess I missed something .
I've been struggling with this for about 2 hours now (not the grub issue, the whole mess). I've tried googling this last problem, then searched this forum with no luck (I usually find stuff about people who want to boot from a drive other than the first one and must daisy-chain grub).
Bootloaders (and low level linux stuff) are new to me. I'm afraid to botch the bootloader of the thumb drive (grub 1.9x), and to be locked out of the machine.
Now, after restarting my ubuntu, I couldnot boot back into ubuntu.
After reaching the boot menu and choosing the "Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-22-generic" option, I get a new black screen with these in white letters
Boot from (hd0,5) ext3 507cefd1-74f3-489a-920a-d588e36b6476
Error 15 : File not found
Press any key to continue ... _
I had a previous thread which led me to this thread about re-installing an older version of the kernel [url]
How to re-install my kernel?
I did a system update earlier in the day, but I have a hard time thinking this is connected to it:
I shut down my computer and when I went to start it up, I got a black screen and a bunch of letters and numbers followed by:
Is there something I can do to get back to my desktop? Is there a way I can access my documents, at least?
I was doing some thing on networking on virtual machine (rhel 3 as guest os) and winxp as host .. now when i started my guest os (linux) the login page letters (like username and password) size became very large so that i could not see them (crossed the screen) .
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install Ubuntu on my Dell Optiplex GX60 and am getting a black screen with white letters of errors and other stuff.
For instance.bad_area_nosemaphore+0x90/0x130
do_page_fault+0x378/0x440
error_code+0x73/0x78
etc.
I'm running the installer, and "Guided Partitioning" selected partition sizes I'm not completely happy with. I selected separate partitions for /home, /var, /usr, /tmp etc, and by default it gave me only 5GB for the /usr partition. I'd like to take some space away from /home and give it to the /usr partition, but I can't figure out how to do that using the menu options available.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a debian 6 system in my basement acting as a media server. Debian is on a separate HDD from the raid drives and there is one external drive. Under normal conditions the Debian HDD shows up as /dev/sdk and the external shows up as /dev/sdl, no problems here because I use UUID for mounting. The problem is sometimes this drive isn't picked up on restarts (its old and I think the issue is the power supply in the base of it, to be solved later) . This wouldn't be a problem but it some how shuffles the drive addresses and the Debian HDD becomes /dev/sde, this in turn messes up a script that does a weekly dd of that hard drive. I am only really worried about this for when I go on vacation and I wont be at home if the power goes out.
So, is there a way to address the entire hard drive (not just a partition) other than the dev file? Why did this change from Debian 5 to 6? I never had this problem before with 5.
In case you are wondering, I find it easier recover from an image rather than do a reinstall, then get all the updates and software, then put in all the backed up files.
I'm about to move a lot of folders from an older computer (sarge/etch) over to a newer with Lenny. But I get problems when I reach folders or files with names that contains nordic letters like øå. I'm using an external drive to move the folders. What is the easiest and best way to do this.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently built my first computer which has Debian Jessie running on it.
Everything was running great until I updated the computer a few days ago. After doing that and turning it on a few hours later, the keyboard started missing letters (as in it wouldn't register every key click) and was also typing some letters over and over again. It seems that it doesn't matter what key I press, the same problem occurs.
I tried using the keyboard on my laptop; it worked perfectly. I also tried connecting up another keyboard I had laying around and that seemed to have the same issue. Both keyboards are mechanical.
I downloaded Fedora-14-i686-Live-Desktop.iso and used the Fedora liveusb-creator to put this on a 2GB USB stick. Everything seemed to have gone well and it said complete; however, when I try to boot from the USB stick, I get a black screen with a linux copyright notice at the top and it just stays at that screen forever. I tried this on two computers with the same results.
I'd previously tried with Ubuntu and had a similar issue, it would go to a purple (if I remember correctly) Ubuntu screen and it sat that forever.
i am fairly new to Ubuntu. i was using it fine for a month, but today, when i booted my computer up, it came up with a black screen instead of the normal purple ubuntu screen. the black screen had white text on it, and asked for my username and password. from there, it was a terminal prompt. i have been google searching for a while, and have tried typing "startx", "sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop", "sudo gdm", and i have also tryed uninstalling xorg, and reinstalling, and none of these things wanted to do anything for me.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI received the Ubuntu CD by mail the other day and tried to install a dual boot with it. I first tried it out by running from the CD and the first problem I had was the screen froze after the splash screen. So I lurked around for a bit and found out that I can press any key on the screen with the keyboard and person to get to a different screen. At this screen I entered "F6" and then entered "nomodeset", this allowed me to pass the splash screen.
Next, I got into Unbuntu but I found out that the keyboard and mouse weren't working, so I lurked again and found out that I have to enter "noacpi" (sorry if I got that wrong, I forgot the name ). I ran by CD once more and everything worked, so I decided to finally install it next to my Vista. However, after installing it goes straight to the splash screen, and the freezing happens again. The screen where the keyboard and the person are not showing up so I have no idea how add the "nomodeset" and "noacpi". So my question is, how do I get to the screen where I can add both those things? Also, is there a way to add it permanently so I don't have to keep pressing F6?
gnome-terminal from the Debian squeeze does not use the 'default_size_columns' and 'default_size_rows' from the /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/ folder of gconf.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI went directly from F9 to F11, and so "Plymouth" came as a very unpleasant surprise. I read the thread,
[URL]
about getting the graphical animation, but it didn't address the root problem. Whether you see the animation, the bubble in the middle of the screen filling up with white, or the three-color bar at the bottom of the page, Plymouth seems to be completely useless.
I tried an experiment. I disconnected the eth0 cable and rebooted. Absolutely nothing appeared on the screen to show that there was a problem, much less what it was. With the old system, the progress bar would be immediately replaced with the "details" to show that eth0 "failed" to be started. If one wanted, which I often did, one could manually switch to see the "details" (all the processes and demons started) throughout the whole boot.
I just can't understand removing such an important feature of the boot process. Where do people get ideas like this? Being able to get into the real goings-on of an OS has always been the hallmark of UNIX/Linux systems. I hope I'm wrong, but it seems the new Fedora philosophy is more and more like Microsoft's.
But here's my question: Is there any way I can restore the way the boot screen worked under F9?
I have upgrade to the Lucid alphas. Just lately when I turn on the computer it appears to start ok but it will not go to the signon screen. It stops on a blank black screen with a curser top left corner. Pushing keys just seems to give a mixture of letters ,symbols and numbers nothing intelligible, how to fix this concern or at least how to get into safe mode so I can attempt to find the problem.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm new using Ubuntu desktop and I made a mistake while reading a tutorial on shell. I used the bind ctrl + alt + Fx (in this case, F6) and I didn'tnow how to come back to my original desktop after that. So I did a hard reboot . Since, after booting I see the loading screen with Ubuntu writen on a purple background, but after that I get a black screen and I cannot type or do anything.I tried to log in in "safe mode" (or something like that) and it worked but I got a low screen resolution of course and after rebooting in normal mode it still doesn't work.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI had a problem with my system today when I came home and unlocked the screen and the single program I had left running had crashed and so did AWN, I restarted the system and it just goes to a blank screen just before it got to the login and does nothing. I reinstalled the system and reinstalled the ATI drivers downloaded from the ATI website just like I had previously (had problems with the Ubuntu drivers in the past) and rebooted the system and got the same blank screen... Now I'm on my second system reinstall of the night but haven't installed the ATI drivers yet, but I need them to set up my dual screen gig.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI just downloaded Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook. Sometimes when i am start my netbook i boot to black screen. I can hear the loading music but the screen is just black. And when i press the powerbutton to close the computer and turn it on again, then sometimes i can see the screen and everything is working. and sometimes it is working just fine.
When i have my usb mouse and usb wireless network thingy it seems to have a hard time booting, but when i unplug my usb mouse and network thingy it boots just nice.
It would be nice if i could turn on the power and then the netbook would just startup and show me a screen, and didnt have to unplug my usb things first...
When booting, right after Grub OS selection, Purple screen without ubuntu logo appears for about 3-5 mins without HDD LED flashing. after this 'freeze', same purple screen with logo appears, and it fully loads to ubuntu login screen in about 5 seconds.. is this usual?My spec= 1Ghz CPU, 1GB RAM. Netbook.any idea why and how to fix this?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI recently installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my laptop. I uninstalled, now I installed again. I used WUBI both times. This time, every time I boot, (after I select Ubuntu in the wubi and grub bootloaders) I get a blank black screen with a flashing _ in the corner. Then I get to the login screen and it works like normal. Are there any solutions for this? I'd sort of prefer to see the ubuntu logo and flashing dots.
View 5 Replies View Relateddownloaded Fedora 15 Live CD and made a booting live CD with it , everything went Okbut after the first screen " automaticlly boot after 10 s " everything just went creepy and the contrast of my screen has become very very low , I was able to see that unity booted but I barely could see the icons without being able to see anything esle , just dark*darkthe same happened with the usb live version .Im having a " Mageia RC " installed in dual-boot with windows 7 and I have the same problem with it . which means, the distro is there but cannot be used cuz the contrast is very very low
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo I Installed OpenSUSE A Plethora Of Times. In Both 32 & 64 bit. But No Matter What After It Boots Up And Where I Should See Some Kind Of User Interface The Screen Is Blank. Now this Is The Point Where You restart The Computer And See Where You Went Wrong But Come to find Out My Power And restart Buttons Dont Respond So i Have To Pull the Battery Out Of My Laptop.
View 4 Replies View RelatedOn this Lenovo netbook: I was playing with Firefox, came across a security.ubuntu.com problem, established in general terms what it was referring to and that it might be easier just to reinstall Ubuntu andupgrade to 9.04.Succesfully installed, it said, please to do a restart. But the screen is blank. Now, all I have is a totally dark screen whether booting off the hard drive (it starts running and clicking, then stops clicking; staysrunning 'til I switch off again) or via the external CD drive (which lights up, flashing, for a few moments while clicking, then runs down).
I've tried the Ubuntu CD which originally installed ok, and also the one from which I'd first installed Ubuntu instead of XP.I wondered if I'd inadvertently switched off the screen, but apparentlynot - in any case, presumably it would default to On? I've also looked forsomething on an external screen, I know that works because I played with
it a few weeks ago. fn-F" to toggle the screen doesn't do anything, nor fn-up/down to change brightness. I've just tried ctrl-alt-backspace, with CD and HDD, to no effect.
The battery's fully charged but in any case I'm using the psu and alllights are correctly lit. I've reseated the CD leads several times to besure.I've never networked it to the desktop - it had seemed a good idea to keep them separate so only one gets broken.
If I choose to boot Ubuntu, the splash screen appears, but right when the login screen should appear, I get nothing. This is how it started: While update manager was installing updates, I hit ALT+F2 to get to the TTY. I did this because ubuntu now refuses to mount any usb devices whatsoever. (for more on that, see this link: [URL] Once I got to TTY3 or whatever, I hit ALT + F7 to get back to the GUI. All I got was a black screen and a mouse. The computer froze and I restarted. All I have now after booting is a black, frozen screen. ALT + any F key to get to TTY doesn't work.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've installed Ubuntu 9.10 in my old desktop, i.e. Compaq Evo D510 e-pc:
Intel Pentium 4 1.7Ghz
1GB 400Mhz RAM
80GB HDD
Intel 845G chipset board
Onboard 4X AGP Intel Video chipset
Onboard audio
The above is my setup and Ubuntu runs perfectly fine when it is being cold booted, i.e. I shut it down during the night and boot it in the morning, it boots perfectly fine. But while using, it suddenly freezes and I'm only able to move my mouse pointer and nothing else works on the screen. I tried doing the Ctrl+Alt+(F1/F2/...) but nothing works.
So when I restart it using the power switch, it goes into the black screen and nothing loads up. I'm stuck over here. And if I turn it off for around 30mins by removing the power plug, and then reboot it again, Ubuntu loads without any problem and runs for sometime, then again the same freezing problem happens and I have to wait for another 30mins to boot it up again.
I have a 28" monitor connected to it and it runs at 1920 x 1200 (16:10) resolution at 60Hz.