I reinstalled Etch using CD#1 with the Gnome desktop and that black screen problem has not appeared so far.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=546806
Now there is another strange problem: When I shut down my Etch system, it all goes fine, but just after "Will now halt the system" message,
I see a lot of text roll up the screen very quickly, something like this:
ide...failed to unmount..blah blah blah.
It rolls up the screen so quickly that I can hardly read anything. I see lotsa lines more or less like this, and the system then quickly shuts down.
Everything else is fine and smooth, and I've no problems on startup. I see these errors ONLY at shutdown.
I don't understand whats causing this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Apart from this minor glitch, my Etch is running like a beauty
