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I once had a similar problem and the way round it was to change to resolution when booting.<br>
I just can't remember how.<br>
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Paul<br>
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>From: Steve Redshaw [sr@steveredshaw.idps.co.uk]<br>
>Sent: 7/6/2008 6:58:34 PM<br>
>To: sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>
>Subject: Re: [Sussex] from a green Linux explorer<br>
><br>
>I have tried to get Mandriva Spring 2008 running on my laptop - without success<br>
>so far! the progress bar on the first Mandriva screen moves about 20% then stalls<br>
><br>
><br>
>Someone on Mandriva forums suggested I add 'noapic nolapic acpi=off' to the boot<br>
>options, but that did not work either!!<br>
><br>
>well, the 'noapic...' did produce more movement, the progress bar moved across<br>
>but then the screen went blank! one time it actually went back to GRUB, but<br>
>usually just a black screen, no cursor<br>
><br>
>another forum contributor suggested the Linux distro could not deal with the<br>
>computer's video drivers(?) <br>
><br>
>my Boot Options (apart from adding 'noapic...') are currently; <br>
><br>
>L 11dd-96ee-7fdfle22462d resume=/dev/sda4 splash=silent vga=788 <br>
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>my computer is Medion - Intel Celeron CPU540@1.86GHz Chrome9 HCIGP Family WDDM <br>
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>any further thoughts, ideas, suggestions gratefully received...
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