Black screen after live session starts / SLI NVIDIA

[glubbar]

I'm trying to start a live usb disk of Mint 15 KDE on a new laptop with Chipset Intel HM77, 2 Nividia Geforce 670MX in SLI (thinking it might be related?).


Right before the login screen, my monitor goes black. I hear the fancy sound of KDE login screen in the background, I can set luminosity up and down through my keyboard, but nothing gives, there is no video feed at all.

I can't figure out how to edit live booting options and start

I have tried Mate and XFCE spins as well, same issue. I do notice a red "FAIL" at some point when the loading lines appear, but I can't read fast enough to see what it is.


Everything is fine with Kubuntu and Xubuntu though. Can't even try Mint,for now.

[Lingula]

What boot options have you tried (such as nomodeset)?

Does your laptop have an external monitor port? If so, have you tried hooking it up?

[WharfRat]

glubbar.

When the countdown starts press the space bar, then the tab key then enter the kernel option e.g., nomodeset then hit enter to continue.

[glubbar]

Thanks for your replies guys.

I don't have a VGA output, only HDMI and I don't have any cables available for that right now. Having to resort to a second monitor is a strange thing though, it shouldn't happen.


I don't see any countdown at all. Whenever I hit enter for "Run the live session" on my USB stick, it starts immediately.
The only thing I could do is edit the command line with TAB, but I don't see how that would help.

[WharfRat]

Thanks for your replies guys.

I don't have a VGA output, only HDMI and I don't have any cables available for that right now. Having to resort to a second monitor is a strange thing though, it shouldn't happen.


I don't see any countdown at all. Whenever I hit enter for "Run the live session" on my USB stick, it starts immediately.
The only thing I could do is edit the command line with TAB, but I don't see how that would help.

When I boot a live cd/dvd the initial screen comes up and a line states that mint will start or boot, something like that, in 9,8,7 etc. At that point I can hit the space bar and a menu comes up with one of the options to start in safe and also mentions hitting the tab key to change the boot line.

This is the mate version, but I don't think the the kde version would be any different.

[glubbar]

The thing is, I don't have a DVD drive, only USB.

Whenever I load the live image, I don't see any countdown at all.

It's most likely a driver issue, but this only happens with Mint, all Ubuntu spins work fine... :/

I'm out of ideas.

[Protheus]

Had the same problems with booting the live cd and after the install of LMDE. Live cd refused to boot, black screen... Just a short message about drm and nouveau, but too fast to realize.

I've edited the bootoption of the live cd with 'nouveau.modeset=0' at the end right behind

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quiet splash -- nouveau.modeset=0

So i was able to boot the live cd and install it. The same after the installation in the grub2 menu cause it refused again to boot. After the system was up and running i've installed the nvidia-glx and kicked out the dumb nouveau driver. Everything is fine now.

[glubbar]

Thanks guys, and especially thank you Protheus! This worked!

This issue is now solved for me!