On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:31 PM, CJoeB <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/10/11 16:17, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:06 PM, CJoeB <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 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? > I'll try this, but I REALLY want those cute little penguins that appear > when the computer is booting! :-) >> Also, what exact model of Radeon? > The specs that came with the computer say its and AMD Radeon HD 6450 1GB > DDR3
If you can get the exact line from lspci or dmesg to know what the system sees it as, that'd be ideal for checking on compatibility issues. -- :wq