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Borat

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Registered: 2008-01-06

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Fglrx install = black screen on reboot, cannot access any gui or cli.

Lenovo T60
ATI X1400
Core2Duo 2.0Ghz

i installed fglrx, and selected it in the xorg.conf, then rebooted, and didnt even get to GDM, all black, so i reboot, go into the failsafe option in grub, and still get a black screen, no text nothing.

What should I do? I really don't want to reinstall i just spent a while doing arch Linux for the first time, and like it so far.

thayer

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: Fglrx install = black screen on reboot, cannot access any gui or cli.

Did you follow the ATI wiki, entering the fgrlx module in /etc/rc.conf and generating the necessary xorg.conf using aticonfig?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI

I have the same card in my Dell notebook and it's working fine.

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Borat

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Registered: 2008-01-06

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Re: Fglrx install = black screen on reboot, cannot access any gui or cli.

Thanks, but i cant see anything right now, just a black screen.

Borat

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Re: Fglrx install = black screen on reboot, cannot access any gui or cli.

can you help me access a cli?

Aaron

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From: PA, USA

Registered: 2007-12-19

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Re: Fglrx install = black screen on reboot, cannot access any gui or cli.

Try pressing the key combo "Ctrl+Alt+F1", that should give you either a clean CLI to log in, or it should give you some insight to the x-server errors.

If you can't get a CLI from ctrl+alt+f1, try all the way to ctrl+alt+f6.

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

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Re: Fglrx install = black screen on reboot, cannot access any gui or cli.

I thought it was just alt + f2

it that don't work, use the arch install CD, boot to it like u did for the setup and then at the command prompt where u would normally type

arch setup

type in

arch root=/dev/sda1

or whatever the location of your root partition. That should get you to a CLI no matter what settings u have in xorg.conf. It will also automount the root FS so u can make changes to it, like changing back the driver line in xorg.conf to vesa so u can see a desktop again.

edit: I just found out about this and was pleasantly surprised on how easy it was.

Last edited by jacko (2008-01-06 06:39:36)

Borat

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Registered: 2008-01-06

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Re: Fglrx install = black screen on reboot, cannot access any gui or cli.

Thanks, but i get a kernel panic

kinit: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
kinit: init not found!
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

btw, im using Reiserfs

Last edited by Borat (2008-01-06 07:30:19)

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

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Re: Fglrx install = black screen on reboot, cannot access any gui or cli.

Thanks, but i get a kernel panic

kinit: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
kinit: init not found!
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

btw, im using Reiserfs

if u got a kernel panic then U need to change the device to the one your arch partition is installed on. change the /dev/sdxx line. kernel panic means that it can't find the root file system to sync too. Or at least that is my understanding. If its not sda1 then what else is it? Its your pc u tell us, where did u install the arch partition to?

I'd say from the sounds of it, whatever is on sda1 partition is a ext2 FS, u need to find the reiserFS, but I may be wrong. Maybe u can't boot like that. Someone with some more experience will need to offer more help. But, if u can't then that's one reason why I don't use resierFS.

I have read before about some reason's why u would wanna keep the /boot partition ext3 for a reason, this was one of them.

Last edited by jacko (2008-01-06 15:32:52)