Saturday, April 5, 2014

Display Problems faced in installing Linux Distributions

Assalam o alaekum everyone!
(May Peace and blessings of Allah be upon you all),

Following are the solutions that helped me recover from the display problem

For fedora display problem:

In bootloader, when you are  on the option of Fedora, press 'e'.
This will open up several boot commands (like in the following figure)

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 Find the instruction starting with 'linux', go to the end of the instruction and write after a space 'vga=0x317' (This number varies for different resolutions. I havent come across any formula so far). After this, press F10 to run Fedora. 

For Debian display problem:
(This solution is for those users who are running a LILO bootloader)
When powering up the system, start pressing some key e.g. 'up arrow' key. You will be directed to a boot menu (Menu will be of Red Color if you are using LILO bootloader) like this:

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In the commandline, write 'linux vga=0x317' and then press enter to run Debian operating system.

A permanent solution to this i found out later on. Once you have booted the Operating System, you can go to the directory /etc/ and open the lilo.conf. In the config file, find the line starting with "vga". There will be a code block containing some vga commands. In those commands, if there is a direct assignment like vga=some number, either overwrite or comment out that, and write this line
"vga=0x317"
Save and exit the configuration file, and reboot the system.

I hope this helps.


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