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

Thu Aug 30 14:57:27 CEST 2012

On 08/30/2012 08:01 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
+> On 08/30/2012 07:45 AM, Remco Rijnders wrote:
+>>
+>> Courtesy of wobo, this is what we used last weekend:
+>>
+>> - Add "init 3" to the boot parameters, this should take you to text 
+>> only login.
+>>
+>> - Run XFDrake to see what driver you are using and possibly adjust it 
+>> if needed.
+>>
+> That will work fine, if you're lucky enough to have a driver/card that 
+> works in text mode without firmware.   Unfortunately, the older ATI 
+> ones don't.
+FWIW my laptop has an ATI Radeon Mobility 4250 and I do a fresh cauldron 
+install about every other week.  I do have initial issues with the 
+Radeon upon first boot; however, I always just login to run level 3, (I 
+add "ro 3" not "init 3", but get the same result.)  add the non-free 
+repo then install the needed drivers, firmware and fglrx kernel mod.  
+Reboot to RL3 again.  Run the display setup program. Adjust settings 
+accordingly, then reboot to RL5 and proceed normally.
+
+Regards
+
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