[FORGET IT] Black screen boot, no sig after boot, GMA500

[FORGET IT] Black screen boot, no sig after boot, GMA500

Postby drakeia » Jun 12th, '14, 12:51

Hi, this is my second attemps of Mageia 4 fresh install, other hardware, a failure again.

Mageia 4 fresh install from DVD, iso md5 is ok, DVD verified.
The PC is the FitPC2i, with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator GMA500 chip.

I won't talk about the install process itself, very long, it's another topic.

Right after install, upon boot, the screen goes black and there's no longer any video signal sent to the display.

I tried to boot runlevel 1 or 3, failsafe, failsafe and runlevel 1 :
Same results. The display is ok until a dozen services start [OK] and then black screen forever. The boot process goes on I guess, led is blinking until it's done. Ctrl-Alt-Del reboot is ok.

The Ctrl-Alt-F1 - Fn does nothing.

I don't have any log to post, since it's hard to log and configure a new system without screen at all.

I've seen others had problem with GMA500, like in this thread, but that was quite a long time before Mageia 4. EDIT: I've been posting here also, for the same hardware :|

And I can hardly apply any workaround without any screen at all after boot.

Maybe some kernel option before boot could help ? Any idea ?

EDIT: new title as asked
Last edited by drakeia on Jun 15th, '14, 08:25, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Black screen during boot - no signal after boot - GMA500

Postby doktor5000 » Jun 13th, '14, 00:04

drakeia wrote:I've seen others had problem with GMA500, like in this thread, but that was quite a long time before Mageia 4. EDIT: I've been posting here also, for the same hardware :|

The situation with GMA500 has improved since then, if something then it's worse as the driver hasn't been updated further.

drakeia wrote:Maybe some kernel option before boot could help ? Any idea ?

Check https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_Err ... rd_drivers
Maybe xdriver=vesa helps ...
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Re: Black screen during boot - no signal after boot - GMA500

Postby drakeia » Jun 13th, '14, 08:14

doktor5000 wrote:Maybe xdriver=vesa helps ...

I'll try that one day, if I figure out a possibility to run MG4 on FitPC2i. ;)

Linux Mint 17 fresh install leads to black screen too... :roll:
I managed to install Linux Mint 13 (out of the "box" - iso) 8-)

Thx for answering
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Re: Black screen during boot - no signal after boot - GMA500

Postby doktor5000 » Jun 14th, '14, 10:42

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [DONE], thanks
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