On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:06 PM, CJoeB <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I hope someone will be able to "lead me by the nose" here. > > For a number of weeks now, I have been trying to install Gentoo on my > new desktop. I kept running into issues and due to time constraints > when I was installing, I put off trying to resolve them. > > Today, I went through the install process, had a couple of issues, but > was able to figure them out and got to the point where I was supposed to > boot into my new system. I got the boot menu, the boot process seemed > to be okay, but when I got to the point where I assumed I should get a > command prompt to finish up, all I got was a weird screen that was half > black and half fuzzy with a bunch of colours (sorry, I can describe this > any better). I tried recompiling the kernel thinking it was a problem > that I had created during the initial compilation, but that ended with > the same result. > > The computer is a Dell XPS 8300 > It has a Radeon graphics card, but I wouldn't think this would be an > issue until I tried to install X. > > Does anyone have any ideas?
Try dropping framebuffer console drivers? Also, what exact model of Radeon? -- :wq
