FS#19588 - Black screen on Compaq 6720s

Attached to Project: 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
Task Type Bug Report
Category Hardware Issues
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2010.05
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

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
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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
Comment by Stefan Wilkens (stefanwilkens) - Wednesday, 26 May 2010, 10:14 GMT
More people having similar issues here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=764656

possibly KMS related?
Comment by Stefan Wilkens (stefanwilkens) - Sunday, 30 May 2010, 20:00 GMT
recent update seems to have solved it, problem does still exist on the installation medium (duh)
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Thursday, 09 December 2010, 10:02 GMT
please try a build from http://build.archlinux.org/isos/

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