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Ste_Sa

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Black screen on boot from USB installer

I'm getting a black screen after the initial options screen on a USB Arch installer. It's a 2011 iMac with an AMD Radeon 6770M graphics card, which I presume is the problem. Does the installer come with the older ATI/Radeon driver, as well as the AMDGPU driver for 2012+ cards? How do I ensure the kernal with the installer boots with the ATI driver?

seth

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Re: Black screen on boot from USB installer

"kernEl"…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeraScale … _2_(VLIW5) is supported by the radeon kernel module
What happens if you add "nvidia_drm.modeset=1" to the kernel parameters? (Yes, I know that you don't have an nvidia card - it will implicitly block a synthetic drm failsafe driver)
What if you make that "nvidia_drm.modeset=1 nomodeset"?

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