Actually,.. I was wrong. This is a wallstreet NOT a lombard. I was thinking of my other pb for some reason. Still looking for some help though.
-Dan -- Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. -- Linus Torvalds On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 15:07, Daniel Segall wrote: > Hi Stew et all, > I just completed the installation of beta2 on my old lombard pb. > Installation was smooth as can be, not a single problem. However, when I > try to boot into linux through BootX, it's not bringing up any video. > The boot process looks fine, all modules load succesfully, and all > devices seem to be found. But after the init, it tries to go into KDM > and just gives me a black screen. I am unable to switch to another term > (might be me using the wrong keys, I'm an x86 guy usually), or do > anything really. If I boot from the generic vmlinuz without any initrd, > KDM comes up fine, and I can login to KDE. However, none of the modules > are loaded of course, and it's basically rendered useless. > > I have tried several different kernel options for video, but none seem > to make a difference. during install I used video=atyfb:vmode:14. I have > of course copied the vmlinuz & initrd files from the cd into my system > folder/linux kernels/. > > Any ideas to help me get under way would be greatly appreciated. > > -Dan
