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(Get the code!)
This is in link with the bug I entered recently named:
Boot of Desktop 6.10 (Edgy Eft) installer hangs on i845 -- bug #90558
I have a KVM, but I know the resolutions that my monitor support. I have had that for a while and it has been working with that computer under older Linux systems.
With Ubuntu (and most certainly Debian though I did not try, I'd bet I'd get the same issue), it HANGs. Big time. It is not directly a resolution problem for me.
The funny thing is that I have to run 915resolution to "fix" the BIOS table but I change nothing to it. The resolution I want is in there with the right everything. But if I don't overwrite it with 915resolution it hangs. Big time.
At first, I was thinking it was the auto-configuration since I could not properly boot the Desktop installer. It hanged. Big time.
But once I managed to install my system with the Server version (not a bad thing, btw) I installed X.org and all the stuff I needed to start the server. So now, I'm booted in Ubuntu consoles and I try to start X11. Paf! Again, it hangs. Big time. (btw, that means I have to turn off the computer, keyboard dead, no mouse since the screen is black, and I still did not find a reset button on this computer?!)
So I looked around and found 915resolution. I checked the resolutions and I have seen no problems. Well... I follow the instructions, I overwrite the resolution I want to use, I start X11, hooray! It worked!
Later I had to reboot for some reason, and I did not re-run 915resolution. It worked fine. Reboot again. Just fine. Turn off the computer, time to swap a hard disk or two, reboot, start X11, it hangs! Big Time. Restart, re-run 915resolution, it works. So... I have a desktop computer, a Compaq with some sort of i845 INTEL video chip. I'd bet that the auto-detection would not hang if it were to run 915resolution.
So... if you had fixed it in Edgy, I'd know, right? 8-)
Note that I'm fine now. It's just the installation process which was a bit annoying. And most certainly (as mentioned by the 1st poster) not something any beginner could understand and resolve by himself/herself.
Okay... I'll try to get the output of the stuff marked on this page:
https:/
but I have to quit X11 first...
(and by the way, I don't like auto-booting to X nor removing the nice verbose boot process when I start OR STOP my system--just a personal comment, it took me 1h to remove all that "crap"!)