Arch Linux

jackpop

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Registered: 2009-09-18

Posts: 4

Blank screen during installation

Previous version of arch worked perfectly for me but 2010.05 gives me troubles from begining.

After I hit "Run Archlinux" or something on first installation menu system starts to boot and after " Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed" I get the blank screen and nothing else happens.

I tried to add "vga=773" line to boot commands and loading processes are shown in high resolution right now but when it comes to UDEV section it fails again this same way.

I'm not interested in solution that disable XORG, or some its parts for me because I want install KDE or something on it and 3D acceleration is desirable.

My laptop is toshiba, intel integrated card:  Intel® GMA X3100

wizulis

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From: Riga, Latvia

Registered: 2010-04-19

Posts: 27

Re: Blank screen during installation

Hmm, instalation does not have any xorg or anything.

What Graphics card you have?

jackpop

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Registered: 2009-09-18

Posts: 4

Re: Blank screen during installation

So you're saying that if I install the arch I should not have any simillar problem?

My graphics chipiset is: Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family
On my Toshiba notebook.

linuxraptor

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Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 8

Re: Blank screen during installation

I have a fujitsu that uses the Intel 965 chipset and the older versions work fine on there... I'll try a fresh install later today to see if I can't bring a fix to this bug.

In the mean time (since you know how to add kernel parameters) try adding:

acpi=off noapic nolapic pci=nomsi

And see if that does the trick.  It MAY just work with 'pci=nomsi' but the above is more failsafe.
Good luck!

jackpop

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Registered: 2009-09-18

Posts: 4

Re: Blank screen during installation

Worked for me!

After installation and following the beginner's guide instructions and intel's wiki - xorg starts with any error.

Thx.

wizulis

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From: Riga, Latvia

Registered: 2010-04-19

Posts: 27

Re: Blank screen during installation

So - Solved?

dh923

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From: canada (west)

Registered: 2010-06-16

Posts: 2

Re: Blank screen during installation

Im running a dell inspiron 1525 with the same intel GM965/GL960

acpi=off noapic nolapic pci=nomsi

seemed to disable my wireless (and probably some other stuff too)

nomodeset

is the right way,  for those of you with the intel card that i have,  look at this http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel

if your lazy... heres the fix
you should have hal running and be a member of the group "video"
install the driver

# pacman -S xf86-video-intel

Add the intel_agp and i915 modules to the MODULES line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf:

MODULES="intel_agp i915"

Now, regenerate the initramfs:

# mkinitcpio -p kernel26

If you ever want to disable KMS, you can change the i915.modeset option to 0 in GRUB's /boot/grub/menu.lst, without rebuilding anything

Last edited by dh923 (2010-07-14 19:20:21)

netmanny

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Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 41

Re: Blank screen during installation

nomodeset     is what did the trick for me     ATI Radion HD.