FS#19588 - Black screen on Compaq 6720s
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Release Engineering
Opened by Stefan Wilkens (stefanwilkens) - Wednesday, 26 May 2010, 09:47 GMT
Last edited by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Tuesday, 09 August 2011, 14:03 GMT
Opened by Stefan Wilkens (stefanwilkens) - Wednesday, 26 May 2010, 09:47 GMT
Last edited by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Tuesday, 09 August 2011, 14:03 GMT
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Details
After boot, the installer appears to be active (typing the
usual "root" and then "/arch/setup" appears to cause cd
activity) but the screen is black. It appears that the video
mode isn't selected properly. I've managed to work around
this by adding vga=773 to the bootline of the installer.
Hardware: Compaq 6720s (video: Intel 965 GME) Used installation media: 2010.05 netinstall i686 |
This task depends upon
Closed by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Tuesday, 09 August 2011, 14:03 GMT
Reason for closing: No response
Additional comments about closing: no response, very likely to be fixed by now
Tuesday, 09 August 2011, 14:03 GMT
Reason for closing: No response
Additional comments about closing: no response, very likely to be fixed by now
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=764656
possibly KMS related?