On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:26:58AM +0200, CECCHI FABIO wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I bought a HP zv6069EA laptop with AMD Athon 64 3500+ (2.2 Mhz with > Cool'n'Quite technology), RAM 512 MB, ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 IGP (128 > MB), Hard disk 100 GB ATA 100. > > I tried to install Debian amd 64 3.1 r0 distribution but the > installation programs, after running vmlinuz and initrd and displaying > some other messages that I didn't get because of considerably speed, > hangs with a black screen. Probably the last message was something like > FATAL:.... > > I tried to insert the options vga=791 noapic nolapic. As result I got > the screen for the keyboard selection, but at this point I can type any > character and thus I am not able to go on. > > Have somebody some suggestion for this problem ?
I used to get a blank screen on many IBM thinkpads with woody and potato. Using the boot option: video=vga16:off always solved it for me, since that disabled the vga16 fb driver that apparently kills the display on some notebooks. I had to use that to install sarge on a brand new Dell with some idiotic ati chip in it lately. Never had to with any system with an nvidia moile chip. Those just work. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
