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Ok went thru the forums and serached for the same issue. i ave a dell latitude d610 with ati 300 dispaly drivers.
Install will go all the way to configure display and hang. Have to reboot to get machine working. thought it was a faulty instal of mandriva one 2006 so burnt another disk to no avail. i have instaled mandriva one ok on my other machines so im stumped about this issue. btw i have the latest bios for this machine.
Last edited by KaizerShoze; 04-18-2006 at 11:22 AM.
Distribution: Mandriva mostly, vector 5.1, tried many.Suse gone from HD because bad Novell/Zinblows agreement
Posts: 1,606
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See http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=436178
check ram
try to boot with acpi=off and variation on the theme, (but I do not think problem is there)
including
installing vesa driver first during the install rather than an ati driver
still no luck
the worst thing is that i like mandriva and the other distros will boot from the live cd even if they are not using the ati drivers
So instruct me oh Mandriva Guru! on how to boot from command using the live cd.(bows low)
Distribution: Mandriva mostly, vector 5.1, tried many.Suse gone from HD because bad Novell/Zinblows agreement
Posts: 1,606
Rep:
suggestion 1)
insert cd and type rescue <enter> to go in rescue mode
cannot remember the menus then, but you should have some,
go around until you find one for the graphic driver, set it to i810
(test vesa as well)
If there is no menu, drop to command line and type
drakconf
A blue window will appear with choices, select video (do as above)
Suggestion 2)
If this does not work,
reboot and remove cd,
reboot with boot command single
when you see sh#
type su
to become root
type drakconf
configure video
Let us know how this goes
Suggestion 3) is single mode + learning vim (an editor) to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Suggestion 4) in single mode run xorgcfg or xorgconfig
i have installed mandriva one to an HP Centrino 1.6
but my old
Dell CPx J750 does not open any graphical screen. I tried the advices above but it did not worked.
If the troublesome Mandriva installation will start in text mode, when you get to the login prompt, enter 'root' (no quotes) for the user name and your root password. When you are logged in enter:
Xorg -configure
Xorg will automatically create a configuration file for your configuration in /root/xorg.conf.new.
You will be directed to test the configuration with a provided command which should be:
X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
This should bring up a blank screen with only a mouse cursor (which should work). If it does, press <CTRL>+<ALT>+<Backspace> to return to the console.
The next step is to copy your new Xorg configuration file to where Xorg will look for it on system start:
cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
If there is an existing /etc/X11/xorg.conf cp will ask if you want to overwrite it. Answer y for yes.
Press <CTRL>+<D> to log out as root.
Log in as a regular user, then enter:
startx
The GUI should load. If it does, then the final step is to log out, then press <CTRL>+<ALT>+<DEL> to restart the computer. If Xorg loads automatically, you are good to go.
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