Month: November 2010

Screen resolution fix for Ubuntu 10.10 running in Parallels Desktop 6.0

If you try to install Ubuntu 10.10 under parallels desktop 6.0 on OSX — atleast as of the writing of this article — you’ll soon discover that although your entire installation is done in a high (eg: 1920×1080) resolution, as soon as the install is done and you reboot, your VM is stuck at 1024×768.…

November 1, 2010
Fixing Plymouth (boot splash) in Ubuntu 10.10 aka. Maverick Meerkat

If you’ve recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 and have installed Nvidia and/or ATI drivers — or installed ubuntu under emulation — you’ll end up with a (butt) ugly splash screen. In my case under parallel 6.0 I ended up with a text boot screen that just read “Ubuntu 10.10″……Ughhh. Here is a quick tutorial on how…

November 1, 2010

Screen resolution fix for Ubuntu 10.10 running in Parallels Desktop 6.0