black screen after upgrades and reboot

Hi

I still have the same unresolved problem as described in my thread:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … nk-screen/

In recovery mode i can see the command line - startx and even a basic xorg.conf (vesa mode ) do not help at all.

Thanks, machinebacon. Will give it a go

>> you can add the "video=lxfb:1024×600-32@60" permanently to your GRUB (GRUB2?) with grub2conf (careful, you better ask for assistance if you don't know what it is)

I do not know what's this ? Could you provide step-by-step instructions ? Thanks !!

After pushing Control-X, it goes back to black screen

Does your livecd crunchbang work on your computer?

This website http://webdt.org/index.php?topic=549.0  recommends to use "video=ofonly acpi=force”  as a addition to your kernel. They also recommend Debian 5 or OpenSuse 13.1 as the best distros for Geode LX 800.  Note: The crunchbang version you are using is using debian. 

Kernel option to try    video=ofonly acpi=force
 
If you find something that works by adding a addition to your kernel and you have booted your computer up, here's a method to make that method permanent.

Example of setting up a  permanent kernel option
open a terminal
sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""     Change this to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="video=ofonly acpi=force"
save file
open terminal and type  "sudo update-grub"
reboot

Last edited by duck (2010-10-20 03:57:32)

I have the same problem as Charmaine. The screen goes black around the time I'm used to GDM coming on. This is #! Statler XFCE on a Packard Bell TM-85 laptop (Intel Core i3 processor and Radeon HD5470 graphics card). I think I've installed the proprietary driver too.

I've tried starting #! in recovery mode and then typing startx. Some messages flash by, but I have no chance of reading them before the screen goes black. And then nothing.

This first happened yesterday.

Happy to report that adding machinebacon's GRUB line allowed me to boot normally. Many thanks.

video=lxfb:1024×600-32@60

Seems it has been fixed, so that's what I'll do: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … e-upgrade/

Hi,

I also had the same issue with getting a blank screen instead of a login splash page after upgrading Debian Squeeze, but it was due to incompatibilities with the proprietary ATI/AMD fglrx driver. I followed the instructions from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooti … deonDriver to totally remove the proprietary fglrx driver using the Recovery Mode CLI and reinstall the open-source ati radeon drivers (libgl1-mesa-dri). Btw my ati/amd card is an HD3450 (R600) which used to not be supported by the mesa drivers; today, however, the card is quite well supported!
At the command line type the following:

sudo /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh  # (if it exists)
  sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*
  sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon 
  sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
  sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-core
  sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

After a "shutdown now -r" to reboot, X starts up with no problems!!! Hooray! Unfortunately once I logged in, I didn't have any networking! Thankfully, some searching in the forums turned up this thread: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … plet-gone/, and after re-installing "network-manager-gnome" from the .deb I downloaded onto a USB stick, I was good to go.

Anyways, I would like to thank all the knowledgeable peeps on the CB forums as well as Corenominal for making CB Statler! The upgrade snafus due to Squeeze testing aren't his fault, and I've found Statler A2 to be much more stable than CB 9.04 on Jaunty!

Cheers,
-Jun