[PLUG] PCI/AGP graphics board problem

Derek Loree drl at drloree.com
Tue May 13 23:38:02 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 14:14, plug wrote:
> Here's the short story. I bought my PC 4 years ago with an AGP 
> graphics board and all was well. That board started to flake on 
> me, so I bought another board and it was PCI. Now my linux 
> boot won't show up on my monitor. 
> 
> Here's what happens. I am doing a fresh install. So I put the Suse 8.1
> disk in the drive and reboot. I get the initial screen where I get to 
> choose what type of installation. I make my choice, which does not 
> seem to affect the outcome, whether it's manual install, memory 
> test, text mode, etc. 
> 
> The screen goes black and that's all I will see from then on. Here's 
> the curious thing. My windows install boots fine, graphics and 
> monitor wise, that is. 

Maybe your video card can't handle frame buffers (or something else that
linux is doing, but windows isn't), do you have an older install disk? 
It might get you to the point where you can compile your own kernel.

Good Luck

Derek Loree






More information about the PLUG mailing list