Quote Originally Posted by emerick7 View Post
First off thanks for the reply.
I'm at Step 2 right now... it gets stuck on "Stopping GNOME Display Manager." It seems to hang there, until I hit the enter key. At that point, I'm able to use CTRL-ALT-F1/F2 to get into the command line.
sudo service gdm start gives me gdm start/running then a process ID. CTRL-ALT-F7 brings me to the same screen though.
Also, I tried appending vga=318 but that did not have any effect.
In case this helps, after "Stopping GNOME Display Manager," it says:
Once again, thanks for the troubleshooting!
@emerick7-- I'm sorry if I missed it, but I don't see where you posted what video card you are using(?) ... also, you said you tried "vga=318"...
If you could post the results from
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sudo hwinfo --framebuffer
or
sudo hwinfo --framebuffer > ~/video_results.txtBlank Screen after reboot FIXED [workaround] by downgrading kernel to 2.6.37
First of all, THANK YOU SO MUCH for an excellent troubleshooting thread. It helped me isolate my problem.
Clean install Natty 11.02 on a Gateway M-1625 with a ATI Radeon x1270 (RS690M). Note that this Radeon is no longer supported by fglrx (ATI Catalyst). After pulling my hair out for 24 hours, and trying every combination on the grub menu, I finally fixed my "blinking cursor/blank screen/fixing recursive fault but reboot is required" by downgrading the kernel to 2.6.37
First, the USB stick live desktop i386 booted to Unity fine, but Unity won't run installed (no 3D graphics??) - guess that's another issue. Next I tried installing over my 10.10 partition. It booted to rescue (recovery?) and low graphics most of the time. I thought it was a bad install so I formatted the partition and did a CLEAN install of Natty 11.04.
Grub always boots fine, it was hanging/black screen/sometimes blinking cursor after selecting the kernel. I tried many many combinations on the kernel boot line (pressing e from the grub menu): deleting everything ("quiet" "splash" and the "vt...7" thing) on the line after "ro" and trying different options (I always used "nosplash" to see what was going on - remember don't use the " when using options - it's just for reading clarity)
"nosplash text" + "nomodeset" or "radeon.modeset=0" or "xforcevesa" would SOMETIMES work, but would often hang at "fixing recursive fault but restart is needed" Other times it would hang after 3 lines, or after a few screenfuls, depending on the options, and sometimes changing with the SAME options. Grrr...
Finally, it looks like acpi is mucking things up with the latest kernel for me: The options "ro acpi=off nosplash text" can consistently get me booted to a terminal. Then from the terminal "sudo service start gdm" gets to the gdm logon screen. On the logon screen I must choose "classic (no effects)" and then I can get to gnome.
From there I downloaded the older kernel and installed it from the .debs found in the Ubuntu Kernel Mainline PPA,
If I select "older Linux Kernels" (I think that's what it says) from the grub menu and boot to 2.6.37 everything seems to work fine.
Older debs found here:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa....6.37.6-natty/
for 32-bit i386 download and install in this order:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa...281005_all.deb
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa...81005_i386.deb
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa...81005_i386.deb
if you're running amd64, be sure to download the headers-all, headers-amd64, and image-amd64 - but I don't know if this workaround is needed with the 64-bit kernel.
Be sure to install (click on) the .debs in order: headers-all, headers-i386(amd64), and image-i386(amd64)!
Thanks to this blog post for the inspiration:
http://www.khattam.info/howto-instal...010-11-13.html
Last edited by taygan; May 1st, 2011 at 05:40 PM. Reason: fixing typos
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02: None 00.0: 11001 VESA Framebuffer
[Created at bios.464]
Unique ID: rdCR.5WU5JOR4rxD
Hardware Class: framebuffer
Model: "Intel(r)915GM/910ML/915MS Graphics Controller"
Vendor: "Intel Corporation"
Device: "Intel(r)915GM/910ML/915MS Graphics Controller"
SubVendor: "Intel(r)915GM/910ML/915MS Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS"
SubDevice:
Revision: "Hardware Version 0.0"
Memory Size: 7 MB + 704 kB
Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xc07affff (rw)
Mode 0x0305: 1024x768 (+1024), 8 bits
Mode 0x0317: 1024x768 (+2048), 16 bits
Mode 0x0318: 1024x768 (+4096), 24 bits
Mode 0x0312: 640x480 (+2560), 24 bits
Mode 0x0314: 800x600 (+1600), 16 bits
Mode 0x0315: 800x600 (+3200), 24 bits
Mode 0x0301: 640x480 (+640), 8 bits
Mode 0x0303: 800x600 (+832), 8 bits
Mode 0x0311: 640x480 (+1280), 16 bits