Installation CD Boots but, display resolution is off

MickeyRat · 2011-11-18 04:20:10

I have to explain a little about my setup of course. It's Dell Inspiron 1501 with a dual core processor and 2GB RAM. Normally I run it using an external 19" wide format monitor. I use a KVM switch to switch between a couple different computers. I'm trying to install onto an external usb hard drive. When I boot off the X86-64 CD using my external monitor it boots fine and the display is good. However for the installation boot, I was trying to Use the laptop's monitor with the install instructions on another computer in the 19" external. As far as the laptop was concerned, there was no external monitor. The CD starts to boot fine but, when it gets to the end, it seems to pick a resolution that the laptop monitor can't display and the screen goes all vertical lines. The highest resolution the laptop can take is 1024X768. When I look at the hardware detection, it shows available resolutions much higher than that. The output from lspci -v (in Mint) with the external monitor attached is below. I didn't have the usb hard drive attached when I got it. Any suggestions on how to get around this?

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f5
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: c0100000-c01fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000c8000000-00000000cfffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: 80000000-801fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000080200000-00000000803fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
Memory behind bridge: c0200000-c02fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000080400000-00000000805fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f5
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
I/O ports at 8438 [size=8]
I/O ports at 8454 [size=4]
I/O ports at 8430 [size=8]
I/O ports at 8450 [size=4]
I/O ports at 8400 [size=16]
Memory at c0004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ahci
Kernel modules: ahci

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f5
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at c0005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f5
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at c0006000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f5
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at c0007000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f5
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at c0008000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f5
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at c0009000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f5
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at c0004400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 13)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f5
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
I/O ports at 8410 [size=16]
Memory at c0004800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
Kernel modules: sp5100_tco, i2c-piix4

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f5
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at 8420 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pata_atiixp
Kernel modules: pata_atiixp

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f5
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f5
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=64
Memory behind bridge: c0300000-c03fffff

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
Flags: fast devsel
Kernel modules: amd64_edac_mod

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: k8temp
Kernel modules: k8temp

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f5
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 17
Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at c0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeon, radeonfb

05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at c0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: ssb

08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f5
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
Memory at c0300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: b44
Kernel modules: b44

08:01.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f5
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
Memory at c0302800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
Kernel modules: sdhci-pci

08:01.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Dell Inspiron 1501
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
Memory at c0302c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
Kernel modules: sdhci-pci

jasonwryan · 2011-11-18 04:26:26

Please use \[code\] tags as it makes it a little easier to scan your post.

Have you tried disabling KMS?

MickeyRat · 2011-11-18 22:09:38

jasonwryan wrote:

Please use \[code\] tags as it makes it a little easier to scan your post.
Have you tried disabling KMS?

Sorry, I'll remember the \[code\] tags from now on. Thanks for replying anyway.

I've looked in the wikis but, I can't find how to do that. I'm not getting to a prompt before it happens during the boot. I did try hitting tab which does give me the command line that starts the boot process. I can also hit escape and get to a boot: prompt. If it can be done, I assume it can be done one of those places. I don't mind reading the docs. A pointer to the right one for this would help though.

I did try noload=KMS in both places. At the boot prompt. It didn't like it. At the end of the line you get with tab, it took it but, I still had the same problem.

Last edited by MickeyRat (2011-11-18 22:10:38)

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#1 2011-11-18 04:20:10

Installation CD Boots but, display resolution is off

#2 2011-11-18 04:26:26

Re: Installation CD Boots but, display resolution is off

#3 2011-11-18 22:09:38

Re: Installation CD Boots but, display resolution is off

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