I personally don’t like the usplash displayed at bootup/shutdown in Ubuntu, I rather prefer seeing console messages. However, the low resolution of the console make the displayed fonts too big which is a little bit ugly. To enable high resolution console, open a terminal and type :
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer
then comment the line : blacklist vesafb
Save the modifications and close the text editor. Now, still in a gnome terminal, type :
sudo gedit /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
At the end of the file, add these two separate lines :
fbcon
vesafb
Close the edited file and type :
sudo update-initramfs -u
Finally, open your menu.lst file :
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
In the kernel line for ubuntu delete ’splash’ (so you no longer have the usplash displayed) and add vga=791 (to have a 1024*768 resolution)
That’s it ! One last tip, to have more messages displayed you can change ‘quiet’ to ’services’ or to ‘verbose’ in the kernel line.
Great, another good tip.
Many thanks for your effort to promote Ubuntu.
Fantastic! It works! I had been looking this solution for about a week to be implemented on /etc/lilo.conf. I am very happy that finally I can set the console resolution to vga=771 (800×600) without having a blacked screen. Thanks for your help!…
Works like charm!
Thank you!