The same happened after I installed an nvidia GeForce FX5500 graphics board (I had VGA, but I needed DVI) Running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with older nvidia-173 driver
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to console-setup in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/809579 Title: console (before X) fonts unreadable Status in console-setup package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: since the upgrade to natty, my console fonts are completely unreadable, it looks like the amount of black and white pixels is the same but they have randomly moved around in each character this happens before X has started the first time, and after switching from X back to console logging in and executing commands works - but you cannot read anything and must exactly know what you want to type (this is especially a problem if your X was broken too by the upgrade and you try to fix your X using the non-decipherable console) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: console-setup 1.57ubuntu20 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Jul 12 23:14:05 2011 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: console-setup UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-07-09 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/809579/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
