new mandriva 2010 the screen is black and did’t work and show anything.

RAJES007 · 12-08-2009, 03:42 AM

i have purchased new acer 5738Z LAPTOP and i have installed the mandriva 2009 that works but after installing the new mandriva 2010 the screen is black and did’t work and show anything.
kindly help to get rid off from this problem.

camorri · 12-08-2009, 09:24 AM

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KMS is not well supported by some Intel graphic cards. If while booting you can't see anything on your screen (laptop or desktop), try disable KMS by putting the UMS mode. Simply edit your command line on the gfxboot by pressing [F3], then choose Default, end add i915.modeset=0 to the command line. Just press [Enter] to boot your computer. Image:bug_small.png Bug #53758

This is just one possibility. What video hardware is in that system?

What errors do you get if you run the command 'startx' ( without the quotes ) from the command line?

RAJES007 · 12-09-2009, 01:39 AM

sir
thank you for your sugession but after using these cammand i got this
boot option= UUID=6c830495-fcc5-4cd1-6603-83ec9ff25f60 slpash=silent VGA=788

and screen still black as it is previous before using the cammand.

camorri · 12-09-2009, 09:24 AM

Did you just press enter when that message appears?

It would appear your system is failing to boot early in the boot sequence.

Was this a clean install, or an upgrade from 2009?

RAJES007 · 12-10-2009, 12:08 AM

Dear Sir,
This is new clean installation
After getting this: Boot option= UUID=6c830495-fcc5-4cd1-6603-83ec9ff25f60 slpash=silent VGA=788
I PRESS THE ENTER TAB
And screen still black as it is previous before using the command.

camorri · 12-10-2009, 09:00 AM

After you press Enter, do you see any disk activity? If yes, we need to go look at the logs to get a handle on what is failing. If no, then I would bet we have a problem with grub, and the disk setup.

Let me know...

ongte · 12-12-2009, 07:06 AM

Check out the Mandriva 2010 Errata

There is a mention of possible blank screen issues for certain video chips. The workaround is provided.

camorri · 12-12-2009, 08:45 AM

ongte - Post 2 was copied from that source.

rolf · 12-12-2009, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by RAJES007

Dear Sir,
This is new clean installation
After getting this: Boot option= UUID=6c830495-fcc5-4cd1-6603-83ec9ff25f60 slpash=silent VGA=788
I PRESS THE ENTER TAB
And screen still black as it is previous before using the command.

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Boot option= UUID=6c830495-fcc5-4cd1-6603-83ec9ff25f60 slpash=silent VGA=788

that is the end of the kernel command line. In order to follow the errata instructions, you must

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add i915.modeset=0 to the command line

before pressing Enter. IOW, type a space at the end of the line, then type

i915.modeset=0

Then press Enter. You don't mention doing that.

ongte · 12-12-2009, 08:38 PM

You should also try the speedboot=no option.