Black Screen On Live Boot

[joff]

Trying to run Linux Mint 9 Xfce. Been reading up on it a lot and I am sure there is a fix for it, I read the thread: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 91&start=0 they however refer to another thread as a base and that one is missing.

My monitor actually shuts off after the countdown and when I turn it back on it just shuts off again. I checked the file with Md5sums it matched.

I am running and HP Pavilion
AMD Athlon 64
Dual Core Processor 3800+ 2GHz
1g RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE - Video Card

Any thing you can do to help would be great.

[oobetimer]

Trying to run Linux Mint 9 KDE. Been reading up on it a lot and I am sure there is a fix for it, I read the thread: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 91&start=0 they however refer to another thread as a base and that one is missing.

My monitor actually shuts off after the countdown and when I turn it back on it just shuts off again. I checked the file with Md5sums it matched.

I am running and HP Pavilion
AMD Athlon 64
Dual Core Processor 3800+ 2GHz
1g RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE - Video Card

Any thing you can do to help would be great.

X-server is falling down?

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=52499

[joff]

1. First drop to a terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 Log in with your usual Username and Password.

2. Stop the window manager

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sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

....of course if WM is eg kdm, so sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop

I meant to say I am running Xfce rc. I tried your code but I must be putting it in wrong. When I get in to the Edit screen I get this

code:

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/casper/vmlinux file=/cdrom/preseed/mint.seed boot=capser initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --

Where would I drop your code, and I would replace kdm with Xfce right?

I am using the linuxmint-9-xfce-rc-amd64.iso download
should I be using linuxmint-9-xfce-rc-i386.iso

[joff]

I tried the instructions from the link I posted with no changes.

[joff]

So far I have tried

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i915.modset=1

(nochange)then

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 nomodset xforcevesa

with that I at least got to see text scroll down the scree before it went black. I am grasping at straws here if anyone has any suggestions.

I still don't understand where I would put

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sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

[oobetimer]

I still don't understand where I would put

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sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 12#p304107

You don´t have to do it, because gdm is already stopped. Just run Xorg -configure.

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Xorg -configure

cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

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