Solve the Problem of black screen startup and resolution of ubuntu a few days ago, ubuntu was installed with EasyBCD hard drive in win7 as the development environment. The Nvidia graphics card has the following problems: after installation, You can manually create a startup item under EasyBCD to solve the problem. Ii. ubuntu cannot be started. A black screen is displayed after the startup Item is started. ==> You can choose recovery mode to start. 3: According to Tim's reminder, there is a resolution problem and only 800*600 and 1024*768 resolutions are found by default. There is no optimal 1280*800 resolution. try the following methods on the Internet: 1root @ ian :~ # Modify vi/etc/default/grub as follows: 1GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT = "quiet splash nvidia. modeset = 0 "2 3 4 # Or 5 6 7 # GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT =" quiet splash nomodeset "solves the problem of black screen startup and does not need to select the recovery mode. However, the resolution remains unsolved. Ps. 1GRUB_GFXMODE = 1280x800. Try to install the graphics driver to install the compiling environment according to the online saying: 1 sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config linux-headers-$ (uname-r) from the http://www.nvidia.cn/Download/index.aspx? Lang = cn find the driver. The version I downloaded: 1 wget slave stop GUI 1 service lightdm stopctrl + alt + f1, switch, and install the driver [replace it with your own path ]: 1sh $ driverPath/$ driverName. get it done after runreboot!