[Bio-Linux] Bio-Linux Digest, Vol 78, Issue 18

[Tony Travis]

On 30/03/15 13:26, Mahendra Modi wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> You will need to set nomodeset immediately after you see the splash
> screen as the graphics chip is not sufficient to run unity desktop. Once
> you may edit grub to include nomodeset and choose to run the mate
> terminal instead of ubuntu. I think thats what I did to get my system going.

Hi, Mahendra.

Yes, it is ;-)

This is how we did it on "wildcat" and we did the same on "Aryabhatta":

> rwt017 at wildcat:/etc/default$ diff grub.orig grub
> 7c7
> < GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
> ---
>> #GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
> 11,12c11,12
> < GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
> < GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
> ---
>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="bootdegraded=yes nomodeset"
>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="bootdegraded=yes nomodeset"

Bye,

  Tony.

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