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drb43
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Location: Wolverhampton, UK
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 Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject: black monitor at boot - looks dead but isn't |
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Hi, hope someone will be able to help me.
I'm dualbooting XP and gentoo-2.6.7-r11 kernel on my laptop (Acer Travelmate 800). However since i've recompiled the kernel and changed my grub.conf settings, when i start up the computer it is completely black-no text, no grub menu, no password input to load computer. I know that everything is still working though, as i can (blind) put in the password and load XP, which doesn;t show the XP loading prompt, but does give graphics when i get to the XP login screen. However for both the original and new kernels it remains blank even after it is fully loaded (X is not yet configured, so would just load to a text prompt).
It always originally use to load, prior to recompilation of the kernel, and could see grub screen etc. Now, i can't even boot the livecd as i can't see the screen once it has loaded. I've also tried to view my bios settings, but again the screen is black, so they're not very useful.
Possibly related is the fact that whilst trying to configure X.org earlier, i installed the synaptics driver for my internal mouse, and since then the mouse won't respond in windows. However, i haven't yet got X to work as the mouse isn't detected properly or something to that end, but that is really a different matter.
As close as possible, these are my partition tables/grub.conf:
| Code: | /dev/hda1 20gb fat32 (bootable)
/dev/hda2 32mb ext2
/dev/hda3 512mb swap
/dev/hda4 17gb ext3 |
| Code: | #grub.conf
timeout 5
default 0
splash (hd0,1)/grub/splashimage.xpm.gz #roughly
title=XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title=linx new
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/2.6.7-gentoo-r11.01 #real_root + other options
initrd #unsure
title=linux old #worked before kernel recompile
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/2.6.7-gentoo-r11 #real_root + other options
initrd #unsure |
My laptop has the following specs:
| Code: | CPU: Intel Pentium-M 1600 MHz
Memory: 512 MB DDR-RAM
Graphics: ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility (64 MB) with VGA-Out / S-Video-Out
Harddrive: 40 GB |
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It should be noted though that i do thing that kernels load, as have been able to (again, blind) login and issue
and everything has closed down.
Hope that someone can help me, i've searched google and the forums but can;t find anything of any great help in this particular matters.
Thanks,
drb43
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nightcanton
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| Are you using a the TV out to get a picture? |
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drb43
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sorry for all the changes to this thread but, this morning loaded everything up and worked perfectly. Decided to try my new kernel out, but that didn't boot proerly at all. The error was along the lines of can't mount fs on RAM0.
Since then it has been the same as before - all symptons are the same as in my original post except that my touchpad now works within XP.
To answer your question, i'm just using my laptop monitor for the display, there are no external monitors involved.
Thanks,
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instinctgone
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| when booting your kernel try using vga=normal |
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