KDE LIVE DVD Display Problems

[mschaer]

Hi there

I'm trying to install Linux Mint 10 KDE (64bit) on an older Desktop PC.

When i choose to start the Live DVD in grub, it shows some text before it seems to turn off the graphics card.
I get a black screen (the monitor shows "no signal"), the PC is still running but won't show anything on the screen.

Compatibility mode does show some more text, then some weird lines and doe again not display anything useful.

Does anyone know, what my Problem could be? Graphics Card not supported?

Thanks
Michael

Here's my PC's specs:

AMD Athlon 3200+ (64bit)
Radeon 9250 128Mb
1.5 GB RAM
Some Asus Motherboard

The Text i get before the black screen is something like that:

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Loading /casper/vmlinuz
Loading /casper/init....

Ready

[SimonTS]

It sounds like the same problem that causes 95% of the problems with booting off the Live system - the graphics card isn't supported correctly in the kernel. You will almost certainly need to edit the command that is triggered by GRUB (at the selection menu press <TAB> to edit, then insert one or other of these commands before the final --

nomodeset
xforcevesa
video=LVDS-1:d
video=VGA-1:e

Also try modifying the existing entry to nosplash & noquiet - you may get more info.

[mschaer]

Hi Simon

"nomodeset" was the one i could use.
With that option i was able to install Mint and the newest drivers. Now, everything seems to work.

Thanks alot
Michael