Black screen while loading 7.10 gutsy live-cd

[sipickles]

What would you recommend for a wide format monitor, native resolution 1280x800? This option is not available in the F4 list?

Not sure this would help me much anyway. I know my problem is ACPI related, since non-quiet boot always freezes on the ACPI sections.

Unfortunately, 'noapic nolapic" etc doesn't help, neither does 'please=for-gods-sake-work'

To install openSuse, I had to choose the 'ACPI disabled' option, which added 'acpi=off' to the openSuse command line. I even tried this in Ubuntu. Perhaps unsurprisingly, no effect.

[Eriol_Ancalagon]

I was able to get in via the nosplash thing, and had to do it on reboot.

Is there even a bug report for this? The config for me seemed correct, yet this was happening. nosplash remedied it, but still, wondering what the deal is here.

[nightdog21]

I own an asus a6 kt notebook and experienced the same problems at installing any king of linux
Seems that the problem appears when anything is conected on the USB
For example i had my USB mouse connected and got the blank/black screen thing.
Try unplugging all USB devices and then see how it works.

I hope it does... If not, good luck finding another resolution to this issue!

[whistlerspa]

I'm running 7.10 desktop - not live and a while ago everything went black on boot - even the normal boot up bios etc settings.

Only came right after I connected the monitor to another desktop and then back again.

Running ATI 9600 pro (with restricted drivers). this is totally bizarre - never struck anything remotely like it.

[sipickles]

I'd like to say a big THANK YOU to nightdog21, also running a ASUS A6 series....

Unplugging my USB mouse fixed the boot issue! I can't believe it was so simple! Shame I've got to remember to unplug the mouse everytime I start or reboot!


Thanks Nightdog, I owe you a


Now to try to get the wireless working.....

[desmo]

On my work HP laptop I successfully ran and installed gutsy without any problems at all. OK, lets get a new work station and install it there:

Damn, I ran into this graphics issue promptly! I have tried all tips from this thread without to much sucess. It has excactly the same apperance as all you guys in this thread. The screen goes black and then nothing. By ctrl+alt+F7 and ctrl+alt+backspace you can get a fast "flash" of how the screen is looking (out of sync a couple of 100ms). ubuntu is running in the background. But you just cant see anything...anoying!

The only advance I have managed to get is by running and setting up the "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" in the terminal. After setting up X in the terminal I hit ctrl+alt+F7 and then ctr+alt+backspace and then something new hapends: first a cross representing the mouse apears, and then a message: "Ubuntu is running in a low performance graphics mode. Do you want to set it up?"
I hit "yes" and I will enter a graphical interface where I can set up my screen and graphics card.
In this graphics card dialouge I can browse thorough different boards can not find my specific but the best is probablly >GeForce 6 series< (?) or >GeForce2 Integrated< (?) (I tried them both)
After this selection + a selection of my resoulution of my LCD widescreen 1280x768 is marked and I hit yes. The screen is then back to the black color. If I hit ctrl+alt+F9 I can se that "loading GNU display manager" is running and not finishing.Anyone got any tips from here?

Great thanks in advance for help!



My machine:

ASUS Motherboard M2N-MX SE
Chipset: NVIDIA nForce430/GeForce6100
AMD 64

[MikeDK]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ghlight=dv9000

try using this HOWTO it helps a lot

Kind Regards MikeDK

This HOWTO-link only for HP DV series users i think..

[elgeeko]

same problem here...
trying to boot from a amd64 live cd.
comp:
e6300
nvidia gts 8600

[fiqy_z]

yeah you're right. It can't find the vga drivers.
Try this :

* On computers with Dell Recovery Partitions: Manual Install might not work in the liveCD installer. To fix this issue: "apt purge ubiquity; apt clean; apt install ubiquity" then perform the installation and restore the sources.list from the liveCD to the installed system.

* On some hardware with ATI/nVidia cards: If the liveCD boots all the way to Gnome but hangs and just shows the mouse pointer and eventually the wallpaper, restart the liveCD, press F6 and change the options "quiet splash --" with "nosplash noapic noacpi --".



"I LOVE INDONESIA"

[loldawson]

Originally Posted by Falcorian I got the CD to boot to the desktop as follows: 1) Highlight safe mode 2) Hit F6 3) Remove the word quite at the end, and change splash to nosplash 4) Hit enter (and then again if that doesn't start up safe mode)

Cheers! Worked fine after this