Hello David, On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:09:53 -0500 (EST) David J Ring Jr <n1ea@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I found a line in /etc/default/grub which has nomodeset in it and I > disabled it. > > Here is what I have in that file now. > > I have a feeling that something in grub is not right. Did you run 'sudo update-grub' command after changing the /etc/default/grub file ? If not, then the actual grub configuration file was not updated and you probably still have nomodeset on the kernel command line. > # If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update > # /boot/grub/grub.cfg. > > GRUB_DEFAULT=0 > GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 > GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian` > #GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nomodeset" > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" ... > What do you think? Is this where nomodeset is and does it look like this > should work? I still cannot get /dev/fb0 It should work. If you additionally run 'sudo update-grub', the grub configuration file /boot/grub/grub.cfg will be updated. Then nomodeset shouldn't be passed on the kernel command line any more. Anatolij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html