jheaton5 wrote:I'm having a bit of a problem. I have an NVIDIA GeForce 8700 graphics card and x will not start. In fact, all I get when x tries to start is a blank screen. I have checked the md5sums and I have a good burn. Any ideas?
I just tried it with a GeForce 5750, and I got the same thing. One thing I noticed is that I can ctrl-alt-F1, log in as root and issue commands (like reboot). I just can't see what I'm doing. I'm booting from my usb stick. This was the stick with the previous version (6.0.5), and I replaced the live folder (and copied the old boot folder). I notice that nomodeset is absent from the kernel line in grub.cfg, so I edited the boot line to add it at the grub menu, and I can get to a desktop.
If you burned the 6.0.6 iso to CD, then you're booting with syslinux, and nomodeset is present in isolinux/live.cfg, so I don't know what the fix would be. Try the third boot option (no probe). I can't remember
what key(s) to press to be able to type a custom boot line, but if you can get to that, you might play with some boot options. I'll copy the live.cfg below, so you see what the current boot options are. You can read about boot options in man live-boot.
I'll be AFK this weekend, so I won't be able to do anything with it until Mon. or Tues.
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label live
menu label Refracta (default)
kernel /live/vmlinuz quiet nomodeset
append initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live ip=frommedia noxautoconfig nosudo noautologin nouser union=aufs
label live2
menu label Refracta (load to RAM)
kernel /live/vmlinuz quiet nomodeset
append initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live ip=frommedia noxautoconfig nosudo noautologin nouser union=aufs toram
label live2
menu label Refracta (no probe)
kernel /live/vmlinuz quiet noapic noapm nodma nomce nolapic nomodeset nosmp vga=normal
append initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live ip=frommedia noxautoconfig nosudo noautologin nouser union=aufs toram
label memtest
menu label Memory test
kernel /live/memtest