On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 21:21 +0100, Terry Coles wrote: > On Thursday 06 May 2010, Simon O'Riordan wrote: > > http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004#Working%20around% > > 20bugs%20in%20the%20new%20kernel%20video%20architecture > > This workaround alters the startup parameters of the video kernel in the > > Grub config. > > When I did it, Cheese started recording properly again. > > I saw your post on this earlier, but Cheese worked for me, so I didn't bother > doing it. I tried it just now with no effect. However, there is something > strange going on here. At the link you posted, it says: > > 'You can also save this setting so that it's applied at every boot by adding > it to your grub config (for GRUB 2: edit /etc/default/grub and add nomodeset > to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, then run sudo update-grub; for GRUB 1: edit > /boot/grub/menu.lst and add nomodeset to the line beginning with # kopt=, > then run sudo update-grub).' > > According to KPackagekit, I have GRUB 2, so I went to /etc/default, but there > was no file called grub. I went to /boot/grub and added the entry to > menu.lst > and ran the script, but there was no change. So why do I have a GRUB 2 > installation that uses GRUB 1 settings? > > -- > Terry Coles > 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux > >
After I had re-installed 9.10 I discovered that I had Grub 2, and I wanted to get rid of some of the otehr releases that it picked up on the grub menu. I eventually found this that if I remember rightly helped me out: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#Recover%20Grub%202%20via%20LiveCD Peter. Once again I discover that my documentation is not up to scratch. P. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-05-11 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset