Comments on: Ubuntu and the dead black screen http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/ubuntu-and-the-dead-black-screen/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: More updates: The weather clock project « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/ubuntu-and-the-dead-black-screen/#comment-48138 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:41:51 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/ubuntu-and-the-dead-black-screen/#comment-48138 [...] and modules that solve all these issues for me and after a few minutes of searching, I found this post that reminded me of the vga16fb [...]

]]> By: A Windows XP-ish Debian at 120Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/ubuntu-and-the-dead-black-screen/#comment-41748 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:23:37 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/ubuntu-and-the-dead-black-screen/#comment-41748 [...] where I’m trapped until I reboot though; it’s the same age-old issue I have with going back to the terminal after starting X in Ubuntu … and yes, I know how to fix [...]

]]> By: Qimo does it right « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/ubuntu-and-the-dead-black-screen/#comment-38759 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:21:05 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/ubuntu-and-the-dead-black-screen/#comment-38759 [...] in establishing a graphical environment to put Qimo on the drive. I’ve found myself in a nifty Catch 22 in past days trying to put Qimo on the K6-2, because of the fact that Ubuntu goes two different [...]

]]> By: dawn http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/ubuntu-and-the-dead-black-screen/#comment-38745 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:24:49 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/ubuntu-and-the-dead-black-screen/#comment-38745 I remember you could bass boot parameters on the Ubuntu LiveCD, but that was one or two releases ago. Look for it — they should still provide that option. (Or is it not what you need?)

]]> By: Michael Douglas http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/ubuntu-and-the-dead-black-screen/#comment-38744 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:57:54 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/ubuntu-and-the-dead-black-screen/#comment-38744 Ahh, were you using an Ubuntu derivative?

Most will offer a script you can wget and run from an Ubuntu CLI install to give you the option to do it that way for hardware such as yours, or hardware that cannot run a Live CD.

Anyway, Good Linux to you!

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/ubuntu-and-the-dead-black-screen/#comment-38743 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:55:58 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/ubuntu-and-the-dead-black-screen/#comment-38743 Actually I’ve used those plenty of times. This situation was a distro released as a live CD with an option to run the Ubiquity installer from the boot prompt. But of course, Ubiquity has no text-based equivalent, and so the situation arose that I described above.

]]> By: Michael Douglas http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/ubuntu-and-the-dead-black-screen/#comment-38740 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:49:37 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/ubuntu-and-the-dead-black-screen/#comment-38740 Can I suggest either the Alternate Install Disc (which should be fine for graphics given it’s the Debian installer that it uses) or trying a different Distro, even if it’s not away from Ubuntu?

I don’t know if it’s kernel specific, or just Gnome being annoying (I’d need to know where you’re inserting that CLi option you mentioned, and I don’t know) but you might try http://www.crunchbanglinux.org (I’d advise trying the distro anyway, ahaha)

- Mehall (http://blog.mehall.co.cc)

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