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Topic: Display problem on boot, nothing on the screen

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Elusion

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Posted: Sep. 22 2004,15:30

During normal boot it goes through all the things and then there is nothing on the screen, it's totally blank. When I boot failsafe, the desktop appears but the mouse doesn't work. So I can't do anything (unless you can tell me how). I can boot to the base or whatever it's called where you just have a command line. ANy help?

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note: Slax works great with no problems.

Rapidweather Offline

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Posted: Sep. 23 2004,00:30

I had that happen on a Dell LCD screen. At the boot: prompt, just
"vga=normal" and see if that works. So, since I have 1 GB RAM, I do this:
boot: vga=normal toram
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settings, etc.
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internet access problem is solved with the cable modem, later.

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jerome5

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Posted: Sep. 23 2004,01:51

I have this problem with a dell 8300 from 2003.

It works if you supply the option

dsl noagp

on 0.7 you need the

dsl nosmp noagp

if you have a pentium 4.

failsafe stops a lot of hardware detection whats why you mouse is giving trouble now.

Elusion

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Posted: Sep. 23 2004,21:49

I tried vga=normal and the same thing happens, just goes to a blank screen. (btw: ctl+alt+delete works to shut it down. The screen stays black but the cd pops out and "enter" shuts the computer down)
noagp didn't work either.

Is there any way to just enable the mouse in failsafe? Can I activate it somehow once it boots into failsafe.

When it boots in failsafe, the up and down arrow keys work to scroll though the document on the screen but that's it as far as I know.

In case it's important:
dsl 8.1.1 (i think)
amd 2400
512 RAM
ati readeon 9600xt

ke4nt1

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Posted: Sep. 23 2004,22:17

It would be nice to find WHAT is causing the blackness,
and only turn off that portion of the autodetection...

Try "dsl noagp nomce"
Also, "noscsi" , unless you HAVE a scsi device ..

Have you turned off plug n pray in your bios?

73
ke4nt

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