no suitable video mode

matrox g200 video 12.10 stalls @ no suitable video mode found

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: February 14, 2013
I have a fairly nice server im using as a workstation(dual xeon 32gb memory) but unfortunately it has a matrox g200 video card built in. I think this old video card is the root cause of my problems getting Ubuntu and Xubuntu 12.04 to 12.10 installed, mainly Xubuntu for xfce. I would prefer to have 12.04.1 LTS installed but I get a message "Building command list" and then a black screen when I try to boot into anything through the live disc in EFI mode(Live Mode, and Install options in grub). Using Nomodeset in grub does not work. My latest attempt, is installing 12.10 amd64 desktop version. I can actually boot into live mode and complete an install. But upon a reboot I get these messages as it boots error: no suitable video mode found. error: no suitable video mode found. Booting in blind mode At this point my system does not crashes, it just stalls with this message on screen. I cant get a console using ctrl-alt-f1-f12. The weird thing is that 12.10 live works, but not af

[SOLVED] No QXL video mode in 6.5 CentOS/RedHat Virt Manager

location: linuxquestions.com - date: February 3, 2014
I create VM guests using Virt Manager. I noticed that 6.5 of CentOS/Redhat no longer has QXL video mode in the Virt Manager pulldown for Video, but it did in 6.4 Anyone know what happened to QXL in 6.5?

error: no video mode activated

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: January 2, 2012
Hi folks, Installed ubuntu 11.10 on a lenovo T410. Everything works perfectly out of the box, no configuration required whatever. I installed on an encrypted partition via the alternate x64 image from a usb stick. When I boot, the following text line displays on an otherwise empty screen: error: no video mode activated I assume this is from grub? The machine displays this for a few seconds then boots normally, so I must admit this is purely a cosmetic issue. However as I will be starting my machine in front of clients (no suspend or hibernate on an encrypted partition thankyou!) I'd rather get rid of it. I've found similar issues on other posts/forums but no solutions. Any ideas?

at boot, "error: no video mode activated"

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: April 28, 2013
I have set no quiet boot and no splash, and the the first thing I see after bios post messages when booting up is "error: no video mode activated". Everything seems to work though, what's this error message about?

GRUB 'no video mode activated ' on LUKS device (UbuAlternate)

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: May 16, 2011
Hello Forum. I've installed Ubuntu 11.04 alternate with encrypted partition. Starting the system, grub prints "no videi mode activated". After a while, the system start normal, but I don't want this error message. Reading some thread guess me, that grub will read some content, exspecially fonts, from the cryped partition. Any idea, what's to do. TIA Andreas

Nvidia fix for Not optimum mode & error no video mode activated

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: October 18, 2012
Hi, Here's a list of what I tired so you know what I did: Installed the driver from the hardware additional drivers, update manager added another driver this hosed the video completely. I formated, re-installed and tried Code: sudo sed -i -e 's/#GRUB_TERMINAL/GRUB_TERMINAL/g' /etc/default/grub for text mode which gave me a clue on what the problem was. Read and tried the fixes on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...b2/+bug/699802 Tried in grub NOMODESET. Lastly I tried Commented #Grub_Hidden_Timeout After all that, I finally got it! I've been beating this thing to death, with searching and experimenting. But here's the answer. If you have a Nvidia video card (mine is a Nvidia GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a). I kept getting Not optimum mode : Recommended mode 1280X1024 /60. When I commented out grub so I could see the boot sequence I founderror: no video mode activated. So when in grub I noticed GRUB_GFXMODE= commented out, so I uncommented it and added the correct video sp

error: no suitable mode found

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: June 4, 2010
Fresh install of Lucid. I get the following message during boot: Code: error: no suitable mode found error: unknown command 'terminal' Computer hangs for about 45 seconds and then continues to boot normally. I gather from reading that this has to do with the video mode being improperly set in grub, but all of the solutions require booting a live cd (which I cannot do). Any suggestions?

error: no suitable mode found

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: June 22, 2012
Hello! I am experiencing the following error at startup. Code: error: font format error: can't read section name error: no suitable mode found. error: cannot read the linux header. error: you need to load the kernel first. Press any key to continue... Failed to booth both defaults and fallback entries. Press any key to continue... Then I am taken to the grub menu and allowed to choose an older kernel, which works fine. For a week or two it was just: Code: error: font format error: can't read section name error: no suitable mode found. Then i ran update and it downloaded the new kernel 3.2.0-25 and the rest of the error began. I have tried reinstalling anything grub related and the most recently downloaded kernel (3.2.0-25) I googled around, but everyone else "solved" this by reinstalling. Anyone have any ideas?

Error: No Suitable Mode Found Error: Unknown Command:"Terminal".

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: July 12, 2010
Just did a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 on a Dell Dimension 2100 Xp. It worked great but I'm getting the following error messages at boot up: Error: No Suitable Mode Found Error: Unknown Command:"Terminal". It hangs there for about a minute then it continues booting OK. I have Intel 82810 (CGC) Graphic Controller. Please let me know what I shoul do to fix this. Thanks

errors 'no suitable mode' and 'unkown command 'terminal'' after 10.04

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: May 23, 2010
Hi , my laptop Dell Inspiron 500M was running ubuntu 9.10. I updated it to 10.04. the update never ended (remaining time was always 27mn). At following boot I got the messages: ============= error: no suitable mode found. error: unknown command 'terminal' . ============= The disk continues working a small time then everything stops with a black screen. I can boot in reduce video mode (maintaining shift during the boot) and everything goes well (except my mysql configuration that seems to have been corrupted during the non-ending update). but next boot in mormal mode the same messages occur. I saw many threads about similar errors after updating to 10.04, but no solution helped. (I tried to modify screen resolution in grub.cfg,...) Any suggestion would help