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Manuuz

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Registered: 2012-05-12

Posts: 6

[Solved] Black screen - Installation issues on Dell Inspiron 1720

Hi,

I'm new to Archlinux, and i want to post my experience/issues of my first installation:
I performance the core installation (base + devel packages and wireless tools as extra package)

relevant hardware/drivers used:
b44 for broadcom nic (wired)
iwl3945 for my wireless nic
intel g965 graphics card (intel GM965 express chipset - xf86-video-intel driver)

Installation went ok till i had to upgrade the system:
pacman -Suy (after package synchronization)

glibc: /usr/bin/tzselect exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/sbin/zdump exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/sbin/zic exists in filesystem

After some research on the wiki i found that i had to query the packages to know if those files are owned by a program or not (if no pakcage owns those i could remove them, but it was not the case)
pacman -Qo tzselect
pacman -Qo zdump
pacman -Qo zic

All were owned by the package tzdata:
so i reinstalled the package tzdata:
pacman -S tzdata

Has this to be filed as a bug or is this a stupid newbie error? (did the installation on a virtual machine, on a laptop (twice) and always got this error)

After that i was able to upgrade the system.

Following that i installed the video card drivers:
pacman -S xf86-video-intel and i rebooted the system.

After reboot i got the grub screen, booted the system and got a black screen (last thing i saw as something like loading udevevents..)
Googling again and looking the forums here, i read that i had to chroot my environment and update the system again (pacman -Suy -> which did not help).

Soo after some more searching i found 2 things:
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KM … odesetting  : i added this in menu.lst: nomodeset
- i blacklisted the intel driver

Rebooted and i my graphics were working again.

So later on i'll test if the parameter solved my problem, or blacklisting the driver.
- i'll unblacklist the driver and reboot -> if it works then i know it's that parameter
- if not ok, i'll blacklist the driver and remove the parameter from the menu.lst

I hope to find what's causing the issue.
Anyone having issues with the intel driver?

Thanks for sharing your experience/info.

Last edited by Manuuz (2012-05-12 13:12:54)

Gcool

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Registered: 2011-08-16

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Re: [Solved] Black screen - Installation issues on Dell Inspiron 1720

Jongens toch, wa ze hier binnensmijten

Ontopic: Give this a try.

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Manuuz

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Registered: 2012-05-12

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] Black screen - Installation issues on Dell Inspiron 1720

Gatver , zal ik es doorlezen.

tx!

Manuuz

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Registered: 2012-05-12

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] Black screen - Installation issues on Dell Inspiron 1720

the crazy shizzle you linked me seems to work, thanks
Installed X, rebooted, still no issues.

I'll continue the postinstallation later.

Manuuz

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Registered: 2012-05-12

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] Black screen - Installation issues on Dell Inspiron 1720

Getting a little bit further, it requires a lot of configuration to get what you want..

- I just installed fluxbox
- added my user to the sudo group (allowing to reboot)
- installed Slim

What's i've noticed also is that when you select an interface in etc/rc.conf, for example, eth0, and it's not connected at bootup, you lose like 10 seconds before the boot process proceeds.
If you out-comment that line, you get a red line (error) saying that no interface is definded.
I guess i'll just have to disable the network daemon at startup and install some kind of network connection manager for my wireless at logon.

Gcool

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Registered: 2011-08-16

Posts: 1,456

Re: [Solved] Black screen - Installation issues on Dell Inspiron 1720

Wicd or Networkmanager are probably what you want there.

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Manuuz

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Registered: 2012-05-12

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] Black screen - Installation issues on Dell Inspiron 1720

Yes yes yes it comes good

wicd-client loaded in tray when starting fluxbox, which means booting goes quickly also.
Stil a lot to do but i have done enough for the weekend

Manuuz

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Registered: 2012-05-12

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] Black screen - Installation issues on Dell Inspiron 1720

- Well this weekend i'm gonna look @ the power-management software/options
- Tweak my sound, because at the moment (when i wear a headset) when i move my mouse around, it makes a buzzing sound.
- set up my clock correctly, i set my clock manually, but after reboot it changes again

hm, maybe i should move this post to the laptop issues subforum.

Last edited by Manuuz (2012-05-18 07:04:52)