After talking with a lot of people since filing this and seeing that
triage was going in the strange directions with this problem... I spent
a lot of time doing more homework and research. I spent a lot of time
on IRC # grub yesterday talking with a few of their dev's and support's.
I followed
Adding GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD=text to /etc/default/grub tries to over-ride the
variable set gfxpayload=$linux_gfx_mode in 10_linux where GNU says that
if set in the/etc/defau;t/grub :
## QUOTE ##
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX'
Set to `text' to force the Linux kernel to boot in normal text
mode, `keep'
Like I said. I don't have this problem on this box or my 4 other's. I
do have other 2 test boxs that are currently running Oneiric Ocelot
11.10 that I could pull down to reinstall 11.04 and recreate this
problem with various hardware (Intel or AMD CPU's; nvidia, ati or intel
video chipsets)...
uhm, no, Xorg doesn't use HAL for anything anymore, certainly not for
setting the graphics mode.
If you need to add GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD=text to /etc/default/grub, then it's
a kernel bug.
moving to nvidia-settings, which shouldn't add crap to the xorg.conf.
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I re-read edited):
Timo Aaltonen wrote 14 hours ago: #4
If you need to add GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD=text to /etc/default/grub, then it's a
kernel bug.
As explained above-- If you manually set the variable of GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD
or GFXMODE and it works... then it does not seem to be a kernel bug.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/781445
Title:
Xorg's HAL causes Purple screen or Black
Got sidetracked,- It causes a few different problems, but shares a
common cause: Not being able to find and sett a valid graphics mode.
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@Bugbot- This is not an nVidia thing. The happens with nVidia, ATI
Radeon, i915, Sandy Bridge, etc. This causes an nVidia chip instlled
consurrent with a Sandy Bridge no to be quesried and return it's mode
data.
Basically, it seems to be causing graphics modes data to be returned in
correctly,
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