Fwd: Re: Missing menu display

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

Sorry, I should have sent this to the list.

Peter HB


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Missing menu display
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:13:09 +0000
From: Peter Hillier-Brook <address@hidden>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <address@hidden>

On 20/03/13 17:54, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> В Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:58:08 +0000
> Peter Hillier-Brook <address@hidden> пишет:
>
> > On 18/03/13 02:39, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > В Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:02:28 +0000
> > > Peter Hillier-Brook <address@hidden> пишет:
> > >
> > > > Could someone please advise how I might achieve a menu display on my new
> > > > Siemens (sorry, Fujitsu) Lifebook. grub.cfg appears to be sound and I do
> > > > hear the GRUB_INIT_TUNE, proving that my modified /etc/default/grub is
> > > > being used by update-grub.
> > > >
> > > > Screen resolution is 1366x768, but I've set GRUB_GFXMODE to auto as I'm
> > > > not convinced that 1366x768 would work. I should also mention that the
> > > > system is using an EFI with which I'm not totally familiar and which I
> > > > guess is at the root of the problem. Where might I find a handbook on
> > > > EFI in relation to GRUB so that RTFM would have some meaning?
> > >
> > > Try for a start setting GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console to exclude gfxterm
> > > from equation.
> > Thanks for your support. The effect of your suggestion was:
> >
> > error:no video mode activated
>
> Do you also have GRUB_TERMINAL set? It takes precedence. Try to set it
> to "console" as well (or instead).

I tried both suggestions with the same resultant error. I suspect that
GRUB is not finding a driver for my graphics environment: I would have
thought that Intel i915 was fairly common in laptop machines.

For further information I ran xrandir after booting with the following
output:
_______________________________________________________________________
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS1 connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
344mm x 194mm
   1366x768       60.0*+
   1360x768       59.8     60.0
   1024x768       60.0
   800x600        60.3     56.2
   640x480        59.9
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
_______________________________________________________________________

Does this help with a diagnosis?
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Peter HB