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After installing Kubuntu on a Notebook with GeForce Go 6100 graphics card, the tty's were working correctly, but the KDE desktop wouldn't display anything correctly. After installing the nVidia driver using apt-get install nvidia-current as root, the KDE desktop was displayed correctly. But now the TTY's have a very low resolution (the font is about 4x as big as it's supposed to be) and the flashing kubuntu Plymouth-animation was replaced by a text based animation looking like this:

Kubuntu 13.10
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Where the dot's were changing it's color like on Ubuntu (not Kubuntu) bootup.

What happened and how can I fix it?

s3lph
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two things

First,

fix grub resolution:

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Now, locate the line 

#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

and change it to this:

GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x800 
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep

Next,

add framebuffer:

echo "echo FRAMEBUFFER=y" | sudo tee /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash

finally, update grub and initramfs:

sudo update-initramfs -u
sudo update-grub

reboot for the changes to take effect

mchid
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