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Topic: Gparted display issues - No text is readable

Hi all, thanks in advance for any help you can provide. I’m just now learning Lunix and Gparted. I downloaded it and burned the ISO. The default mode isn’t readable by my monitor and/or system. I worked around that by going into forced graphics mode. I’m able to see it (the graphics boxes) but none of the text is readable.

It seems that graphics are at the forced mode, but the text is in a completely different resolution (very very small). I was able to resize the resolutions from inside and tried them all – still no text. I’m not sure if it’s an issue with my monitor (DVI/I Oevia 23” wide), my video cards (x2 Nvidia 8400 SLI) or the ISO I burnt.

Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Gparted display issues - No text is readable

Which version of GParted Live did you use?

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Re: Gparted display issues - No text is readable

woops - sorry, I didn't mean to leave that out. gparted-live-0.4.6-1.iso.

I've since downloaded a copy of the PMagic ISO and that did the trick just fine. I would mark this one as done, but I'm actually quite interested to see if this issue has come up before and if it was resolved.

Thanks for thinking about the issue Gedakc.

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Re: Gparted display issues - No text is readable

Newer versions of GParted Live might resolve the issue because these use newer versions of Debian GNU/Linux.

Unfortunately we are tracking another problem with resizing that must be fixed first.   See post:
WARNING! Problem Resizing File Systems with GParted

Hence I currently do not recommend that you try out these newer GParted Live versions just yet.

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Re: Gparted display issues - No text is readable

(Moved to the live media section)

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***

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Re: Gparted display issues - No text is readable

No worries. I'd actually read that post (or the warning that'd been posted on the download location).