[Sussex] from a green Linux explorer

[paul jones]

I once had a similar problem and the way round it was to change to
resolution when booting.
I just can't remember how.

Paul

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


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