Niemand000
February 1st, 2013, 10:54 PM
So, I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on an HP Envy 14 laptop and now I'm having issues loading. Long story short, I'm getting a black screen/purple screen/black screen with a blinking cursor. Upon looking up this issue, I find that others have encountered the same thing and have found a fix for it, but the best fix is one that I'm not sure how to duplicate:
"Black console
Right after the installation, I notcied that the console remained black after the boot menu (the display turns off) before the KDE login screen appears. After some testing, I found out that is is due to the switchable graphics. It seems as running the i915 and radeon kernel modules causes some conflicts.
Fixing this is quite simply: Simply put the unneeded module (e.g. radeon) on the blacklist in /etc/modprobe.d and recreate the ramdisk with mkinitrd. Reboot to check whether it woked out." ~ Andreas Demmer
http://www.andreas-demmer.de/en/2010/07/18/testbericht-linux-auf-dem-hp-envy-14/
Could someone please explain how I can do what he did when I can't even get past the log in screen? Or access Grub, or anything. Thanks so much in advance
"Black console
Right after the installation, I notcied that the console remained black after the boot menu (the display turns off) before the KDE login screen appears. After some testing, I found out that is is due to the switchable graphics. It seems as running the i915 and radeon kernel modules causes some conflicts.
Fixing this is quite simply: Simply put the unneeded module (e.g. radeon) on the blacklist in /etc/modprobe.d and recreate the ramdisk with mkinitrd. Reboot to check whether it woked out." ~ Andreas Demmer
http://www.andreas-demmer.de/en/2010/07/18/testbericht-linux-auf-dem-hp-envy-14/
Could someone please explain how I can do what he did when I can't even get past the log in screen? Or access Grub, or anything. Thanks so much in advance