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Tag: configuration
A must read if you get down to tweaking your nvidia graphics card on linux. I had to get it to work in multi-mode to enable two large LCD displays I need.
Please check my Ctrl+Alt+F1 related post on how to disable Framebuffer in grub config (vga=normal). May help if you are facing framebuffer related issues.
Good luck!
This turns out to be much more painful than grub (v1) which had a simple menu.lst file. The new grub2 autoupdates based on kernel updates, which is great, but makes it a pain to edit basic configuration.
In my case I was attempting to change the default splash in an attempt to correct a framebuffer problem causing my ctrl-alt-f1 to not work. I went and updated the grub.cnf (equal to menu.lst file in grub1) file, but soon realized that it will be overwritten.
Reading further revealed that the trick is to update the /etc/default/grub file instead. Thereafter one has to run the update-grub command
So much to get ctrl-alt-f1 to get me a terminal!
(this applies to 10.2 atleast)
No /boot/grub/menu.lst. It has been replaced by /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
GRUB vs GRUB 2
The primary configuration file for changing menu display settings is /etc/default/grub.
No changes made in the configuration files will take effect until the update-grub command is also run.
..my synonyms 