[Mageia-discuss] New install - black screen after reboot - Acer eMachine e525

[Renaud (Ron) Olgiati]

On Tuesday 29 May 2012 09:22 my mailbox was graced by a message from Renaud 
(Ron) Olgiati who wrote:

> Been asked to upgrade an Acer eMachines e525 laptop that up to now was
> running Mandrive 2009.1 without any problem
> Install goes well, but after rebooting the screen is black, I can hadrly
> discern the login window..

Found a work-around on an Unbubtu list:
one must add acpi_osi=Linux to the line under "title linux" in 
/boot/grub/menu.lst

Only problem, that would make this rather difficult for a newbee, is that you 
cannot do it in Mageia, since your screen is not showing; so out comes the 
Mandriva LiveCD, boot, config, mount the Mageia / or /boot partition, vi 
/boot/grub/menu.lst, save and reboot.

Only fly in the ointment, the Fn keys now work, but in reverse, v makes the 
screen brighter, and ^ make it darker.

Should this be reported as a bug ? If so, how does one do it ?
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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