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Richard Quint
Asked: 2017-10-31 10:54:44 +0800 CST

Budgie 17.10 garbled display

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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?

17.10

4 Answers

  1. My eee PC 900HA has Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS.
    And I solved it with this purely physical solution:

    1. Turn on the computer by pressing the power button.
    2. Quickly close the lid.
    3. Wait for the leftmost green led to start blinking. Power led next to it will also be lit.
    4. Open the lid and tap the power button to wake up the computer.
    5. After a minute or so, the unscrambled clean screen appears.
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  2. 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.

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  3. 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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  4. 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

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