Re: [Mageia-dev] Fresh mga2 install - NO screen !

2012-08-30 Thread Frank Griffin
On 08/29/2012 11:18 PM, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: Like some missing firmware ? As I were saying, I don't use proprietary drivers. That includes proprietary firmware. And I have Not enabled the nonfree repo. That may be the problem. For many ATI cards (yes, I know you're nvidia), the install

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fresh mga2 install - NO screen !

2012-08-30 Thread Remco Rijnders
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 07:18:46AM -0400, Frank wrote in 503f4c16.4030...@roadrunner.com: You need to figure out what driver is being set by the install, and what its requirements are. Worst case, redo the install and in Summary choose Graphical and see what's selected by default. Then

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fresh mga2 install - NO screen !

2012-08-30 Thread Frank Griffin
On 08/30/2012 07:45 AM, Remco Rijnders wrote: Courtesy of wobo, this is what we used last weekend: - Add init 3 to the boot parameters, this should take you to text only login. - Run XFDrake to see what driver you are using and possibly adjust it if needed. That will work fine, if you're

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fresh mga2 install - NO screen !

2012-08-30 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Digigold at 30/08/12 13:57 did gyre and gimble: (I add ro 3 not init 3, but get the same result.) Yeah the word init is not needed here, just a 3 will do. Although such runlevels are really just compatibility with a somewhat outdated concept, and appending

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fresh mga2 install - NO screen !

2012-08-30 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Thursday 30 August 2012 15:02, Colin Guthrie wrote: 3 is considerably shorter to type and has much less chance of typos so I struggle to recommend this alternative with a straight face :p It is also easier to get a regular user to type over the phone when they call me for help, and I don't

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fresh mga2 install - NO screen !

2012-08-29 Thread AL13N
Op woensdag 29 augustus 2012 22:31:50 schreef Johnny A. Solbu: I have installed mga2 on a system which is replacing an old system, and as soon as I boot after selecting Mageia on the GRUB menu (which is default), the screen goes black and it doesn't work ever untill I reboot. I have

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fresh mga2 install - NO screen !

2012-08-29 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Thursday 30 August 2012 00:30, Colin Guthrie wrote: See the thread on this list from a week or two ago: Desktop Monitor powering down That is not my problem. My monitor does Not power down. it just doesn't display anything, using nouveau, whereas nv works, once I figured out how to enable

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fresh mga2 install - NO screen !

2012-08-29 Thread Balcaen John
Le jeudi 30 août 2012 00:20:12 Johnny A. Solbu a écrit : On Thursday 30 August 2012 00:30, Colin Guthrie wrote: See the thread on this list from a week or two ago: Desktop Monitor powering down That is not my problem. My monitor does Not power down. it just doesn't display anything, using

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fresh mga2 install - NO screen !

2012-08-29 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Thursday 30 August 2012 04:11, Remco Rijnders wrote: Is only one graphic card detected on this system? Yes. And it's a desktop., not a laptop. It does however have two DVI ports on the same card. -- Johnny A. Solbu PGP key ID: 0xFA687324 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fresh mga2 install - NO screen !

2012-08-29 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Thursday 30 August 2012 02:11, Balcaen John wrote: Do you have anything useful in logs ? (dmesg, xorg.log etc etc) ? http://www.solbu.net/mageia-dm/ Like some missing firmware  ? As I were saying, I don't use proprietary drivers. That includes proprietary firmware. And I have Not enabled