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just finished installing arch on my old desktop(pentiumIII). install went fine, but on first boot instead of a login prompt i got a blank screen. i thought ok, weird, so i gave it the three finger salute and this time instead of a blank screen i got green and yellow stripes like my video card is on the fritz. tried switching terminals, alt-f1, alt-f2 etc but same screen. tried logging in blind as root but still same screen. any ideas?
Last edited by the_gabber (2009-11-23 22:30:35)
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Does it get past the GRUB menu and show boot progress?
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yes.
the problem occurs after grub, and after the boot progress notices.
it is when i should be seeing a terminal login screen that i have this problem.
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Using ATi or Intel video card? Might be KMS goofing up. See the wiki.
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kind of an old comp so it has one of the first ever radeons but i only did a base and base-devel install so i think there is no x11 installed?
i read the linked to wiki and after wanted to check the installed xorg.conf but my install contains no /etc/X11.
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It may be worth adding nomodeset to your kernel line. This would disable kernel mode setting. Kernel mode setting kicks in before X starts, so it can hit you even if you didn't install X.
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that was it. appending "nomodeset" to the kernel line in menu.lst solved the problem. thx for all the help.
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kind of an old comp so it has one of the first ever radeons but i only did a base and base-devel install so i think there is no x11 installed?
i read the linked to wiki and after wanted to check the installed xorg.conf but my install contains no /etc/X11.
It does not matter if you have X installed or not...as you have found out, if your framebuffer is distorted, it could be KMS goofing up.
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