On Sat, Jul 9, 2016, at 10:24, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > How can I tell X on the boot line that it should use the vesa > driver instead?
To answer myself: use xforcevesa. At least on Ubuntu-derived distros that works. In short: at the blue boot menu, type <Tab> and delete the "quiet splash --" and type "xforcevesa" instead. X will then use the vesa driver. For me the screen then was seemingly zoomed in on a small area of the desktop: moving the mouse made a huge cursor flit across the screen. But after a Ctrl+Alt+F1 and Ctrl+Alt+F7, it produced a normal desktop. I could then install it. And it was so smart to also there use the vesa driver without me having specified that in any way. Benno -- http://www.fastmail.com - Does exactly what it says on the tin _______________________________________________ Openchrome-devel mailing list Openchrome-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-devel
