[PLUG] Video conundrum on fresh install of Xubuntu 14.04.1

[King Beowulf]

On 08/17/2014 10:24 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> This involves a System76 bonobo Extreme with GeForce GTX 765m that was
> new early last December. At that time i installed Xubuntu 13.10 and the
> video worked fine. 
...
> 
> A couple of weeks ago i did a dist-upgrade to Xubuntu 14.04.1, and it
> turned out to be a disaster - so bad that at the moment it will not
> even boot. This evening i tried a fresh install of 14.04.1 and it
> came up at 640 x 480 - hopelessly unusable. i reinstalled a second
> time, but got the same results.
> 
> This is weird. Xubuntu 13.10 had no problem with the GTX 765M, and it
> continued to work at its normal 1920 x 1080 after the dist-upgrade, but
> a fresh install of a later release can't find proper drivers for it?

Can you go into your settings and change to 1920x1080.  Its not uncommon
for X.org and new kernel drivers to default to a basic VESA VGA mode if
something goes wrong on boot.  Check

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

assuming X.org is installed as opposed to Mir.

-Ed