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

[Digigold]

On 08/30/2012 08:01 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
> 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 lucky enough to have a driver/card that 
> works in text mode without firmware.   Unfortunately, the older ATI 
> ones don't.
FWIW my laptop has an ATI Radeon Mobility 4250 and I do a fresh cauldron 
install about every other week.  I do have initial issues with the 
Radeon upon first boot; however, I always just login to run level 3, (I 
add "ro 3" not "init 3", but get the same result.)  add the non-free 
repo then install the needed drivers, firmware and fglrx kernel mod.  
Reboot to RL3 again.  Run the display setup program. Adjust settings 
accordingly, then reboot to RL5 and proceed normally.

Regards

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