After a fresh install of Budgie 17.10 on an ASUS Eee PC 900HA netbook, when the PC boots up the left 3/4 of the display is garbled while the right 1/4 is fine. Since I can see the right side of the top bar I can select Suspend and after suspending and a resume the display is fine. This is consistent behaviour. Is there some sort of timing issue on bootup?
asked Oct 30, 2017 at 18:54
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My eee PC 900HA has Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS.
And I solved it with this purely physical solution:
- Turn on the computer by pressing the power button.
- Quickly close the lid.
- Wait for the leftmost green led to start blinking. Power led next to it will also be lit.
- Open the lid and tap the power button to wake up the computer.
- After a minute or so, the unscrambled clean screen appears.
Had the same problem on Asus Eee PC 1001HA. Solved by going to Menu > Administration > xdiagnose > (enter password). Under "Workarounds", check box for "Disable bootloader graphics." Click Apply and close. Everything now boots properly.
Lubuntu 17.10 Install
Issue:
Desktop screen after boot is 3/4 black/garbled and 1/4 normal
Fix:
Restart PC, press Esc key to enter Grub 2 Bootloader Menu, highlight linux 4.3 then key e
edit Grub 2 setparams
gfxmode=$…linux
gfxmode=1360*768,1024*768,640*480
If your display settings are different then:
gfxmode=your*display,1024*768,640*480
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This solution works fine at bootup. but how to update grub so you don't have to do this each time you turn the computer on? I've tried modifying /etc/default/grub (uncommenting the line GRUB_GFXMODE and changing its value to the EeePC's 1024x600, which works when editing the value of gfxmode when the GRUB menu is invoked at bootup) and looking through /etc/grub.d/*, but can't figure out what to change. Jan 13, 2018 at 20:39
Expanding on changeyourdevice.com's answer:
Ubuntu 16.04 install
Restart PC
Press ESC at boot
Press e to edit the 'ubuntu' line
remove the gfxmode line
Press F10 to boot
