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Durden

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Registered: 2011-06-19

Posts: 261

[ solved ] nomodset, need help using this

So I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu installed on my newish Pavilion d6. I had to follow these instruction to get it working with Ubuntu:
http://www.adminscode.com/ubuntu-instal … ystem.html

No other distro including Arch will curently let me boot on this machine. I get halfway through the boot process and then a black screen.

I have Arch on a usb stick that boots fine on my desktop so I know the img on it is fine. When the arch boot screen pops up, I tab on the first arch boot option and add "nomodset" to the end of the line. Is this wrong?

My goal is to install Arch and then the ATI drivers from the catalyst repo. Judging by the above instructions for Ubuntu this should work on Arch if I can just get it to boot up. Any help would be appreciated, I'm sure I'm just adding the boot option incorrectly.

* My apologies. I appear to have fat fingers. Marked as solved

Last edited by Durden (2011-12-22 07:16:09)