[Mageia-dev] Fresh mga2 install - NO screen !

Thu Aug 30 04:11:00 CEST 2012

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:31:50PM +0100, Johnny wrote in 
+<201208292331.58583.cooker at solbu.net>:
+>I have installed mga2 on a system which is replacing an old system, and as soon as I boot after selecting Mageia on the GRUB menu (which is default), the screen goes black and it doesn't work ever untill I reboot. I have blacklisted the nouveau module and ran dracut again to generate a new image.
+>It now goes black at aout the time where it is starting X, and again the screen is blank untill I get back to the "BIOS startup screen".
+>
+>The card is a GeForce 6800 GTO.
+>I am Not using any proprieraty drivers, nor have I enabled tainted or non-free repos. I have simply done a standard boot.iso network install and rebooted.
+>
+>Any idea on how to proceed?
+
+Is only one graphic card detected on this system? This sounds similar to 
+what I had on a reasonably recent laptop which detected two graphical 
+"cards" and where the system got confused. (It didn't help that the two 
+chips needed different drivers).
+
+Remmy
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