<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Bruce Marshall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmarsh@bmarsh.com">bmarsh@bmarsh.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">
<div class="im">On Friday, December 30, 2011 16:06:33 Rick wrote:<br>
> I was running ubuntu server 10.10 and recently ran the upgrade to 11.x.<br>
> After running the update process and rebooting, all I get is a blank screen<br>
> with my monitor displaying "Input not supported". This usually means that<br>
> the screen resolution is set to one the monitor does not understand.<br>
> Everything was running fine before the upgrade, so I don't understand why<br>
> the resolution seems to have been changed.<br>
<br>
</div>What kind of card do you have? They seemed to have screwed up the nvidia<br>
usage by using some of their own code.<br>
<br>
I had fits with several machines on 11.10 (and also 11.04) until I loaded up<br>
the nvidia proprietary drivers. Strongly recommended. Solved a lot of<br>
problems for me.<br>
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<br clear="all"></blockquote><div>Thanks, Bruce, for the reply. That helps (a bit). </div><div> </div><div>I have an ASUS motherboard, model MZN68-AN. I'm using the on-board video which, I believe, is nVidia GeForce. So your response seems to be on target.</div>
<div> </div><div>Given that I can't see anything once the boot procedure begins (and even if I _could_), how would I load the proprietary drivers?</div><div>Do I get them from the nVidia web site?</div><div> </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">
<br>-- <br>~Rick<br>
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