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Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors



On 06/03/2010 03:25 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-06-03 22:06 +0200, Kent West wrote:

On 06/03/2010 02:35 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
You may try booting with the video=… option, e.g. video=1280x1024 or
whatever your monitor's resolution is.

Where would I put this line?
Append it to the kernel command line.  I don't use grub2, so I don't
know how to do this there, but probably somebody else can help.

Sven

In the grub screen where you select which kernel to boot, I pressed "e" to edit the kernel line of my choice, then went to the "linux" line that had things like /quiet and ro and root=UUIDblahblahblah and added "video=1024x768", then pressed Ctrl-X to continue booting. All I got was a black screen. Reboot. Try again, with a different resolution. I tried 1900x1600, 1700x1200, 800x600, 640x480; all black screens. Finally left it alone and am back where I started; the upper left quadrant of my screen is the most display I have.

Arg. Debian isn't supposed to be this hard.

Thanks for the help, though!


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