Installed 18.1 Serena from live DVD, now blank screen

[luvlinuxmint]

I have Mint 18.1 running on my desktop. I used the same live DVD that I used for that install to install to an HP laptop. I did a complete install wiping out M$ Windows and accepted the defaults without LVM. This lap top has 2xAMD A6 processors with 3.3GB of RAM, 64 bit


Now when it boots I get a blank screen, no login prompt. Win8 was working before I wiped it out.

It still will boot from the live DVD, Any hints on what to try?

Thanks for any help.

[kc1di]

Do you know what graphics card is in that machine?

[luvlinuxmint]

I should have made a note of that before I trashed Windows. Is there a way that I can get that info using the live DVD?

[luvlinuxmint]

The Laptop is a Pavilion g7 with AMD A6 processors

[luvlinuxmint]

I believe that is ATI Radeon video

[luvlinuxmint]

I made a different choice from the boot menu and now it works. Real slow though.

[philotux]

I should have made a note of that before I trashed Windows. Is there a way that I can get that info using the live DVD?

Open a terminal an run:

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lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12