Blank Screen After Installing 11.2

Harpo · 11-26-2009, 08:38 PM

Hello

I have installed 11.2. When it starts to boot it runs through its startup and then all I get is a blank screen. I noticed in startup just before it says starting HAL it says CPU frequency not supported. I am assuming that this is the issue. I have run 11 and 11.1 on this box and have not had a problem with this. I have a P4 3.00 GHz with 2 GB of RAM. Any suggestions on how I can get 11.2 running?

Harpo

soleil24 · 11-27-2009, 04:49 AM

Blank screen may be graphics related? Seem to be a few issues around the new x-server implementation (no xorg.conf, etc). What graphics card do you have?
And can you start in "failsafe" mode?

IG

Harpo · 11-27-2009, 07:55 AM

I have an ATI Radeon X1950. No, I can't start in safe mode, the same thing happens. Any further thoughts?

Harpo

zorb · 11-27-2009, 05:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Harpo

I have an ATI Radeon X1950. No, I can't start in safe mode, the same thing happens. Any further thoughts?

Harpo

try boot option "init=3" to boot to prompt
if it goes to the black screen ctrl alt f1...

run "sax2" from command line, than command "init 5" and "startx"

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Harpo · 11-28-2009, 07:24 AM

I can't type anything because I don't even have a keyboard present at that time. This happens right at the beginning of the startup process. I pick the boot option from Grub, it starts running the typing gets to starting HAL Daemon and then blank screen.

deaven · 12-21-2009, 08:47 PM

I just had the same issue... got past this point by booting the live CD in text mode, mounting the installed disk partition, and moving /usr/bin/Xorg out of the way. After this the disk boot comes up in text mode and installation continues with YaST in text mode.