Monitor goes to sleep part way through boot

[DiBosco]

Folks,

I tried installing Mageia on a new mobo/processor setup. i5 Sandybridge/P8P67 Asus mobo. When it boots after install, it gets past the first screen and then the monitor goes to sleep.

Mandriva 2011 does install.

I'm not really sure I want to reinstall Mageia now and risk it not working, but just thought I'd give some feedback. If there's any more info that might be of use I'll post it. I could try a Virtual Box install but I'm not sure how useful that would be.

[doktor5000]

What graphics adapters do you use?

[DiBosco]

What graphics adapters do you use?

It's an nvidia 8600GT. It's worked fine under a few iterations of Mandy. I am more suspicious of the mobo. It's a very modern Sandybridge i5/P67 setup. The PATA driver only work on kernel 3.0 and above. I'ts a few years since I've had any sort of compatibility issues with Linux, but I wonder whether Mandy 2011 is just new enough and Magiea 1 not quite new enough to cope.

[doktor5000]

PATA? You use an IDE drive with a recent mainboard like that?
Well, the kernel should not make a big difference, since Mandriva and Mageia use similar kernel versions, both below 3.0.

[DiBosco]

The PATA drives are both DVDs. They work perfectly, why bother upgrading? Waste of my money and the world's resources. I am well aware both use the same kernel, but I'm not asking about the IDE drives - I've worked that out, it's the graphics card adapter I'm interested in.

[doktor5000]

The PATA drives are both DVDs. They work perfectly, why bother upgrading?

No problem with that, you're right, if it works why change it? Was just curious

And you said you can't even boot in failsafe mode?
I remember a problem, where PATA and SATA drives were used during installation, and system didn't boot after installation,
i see if i can dig it up again. Could you try with a SATA drive if you have a spare one or an external DVD drive, in between?
Or some PATA->SATA converter, if you happen to have one at hands.

What BIOS options are there to configure boot, boot order and storage controllers?

[DiBosco]

No, failsafe didn't work either. It's most odd. I suppose it is possible that I just got a dodgy install. There's no VGA adapter on the mobo to try either!

As far as the PATA DVDs are concerned I'll just wait until we get an upgrade to 3.0 Kernel. In the meantime I'll use my USB DVD writer.

[doktor5000]

Have you checked md5sum before and after burning of your mageia installation medium?

[DiBosco]

Have you checked md5sum before and after burning of your mageia installation medium?

Yes, in fact I sued the very same DVD to install it on a laptop and it's running fine.

[DiBosco]

I've tried a reinstall and when I test the setup in the install part before I do the first boot I get this error:

(EE) [drm] failed to open device.
(EE) No device detected.

Try to change some parameters.

I've tried changing every parameter to no avail.

Just to confirm Mandriva 2011 runs (although it is horribly slow). Also, Mandriva 2010.0 (I just tried connecting up my old HDD with my old install) works and is fast. (Although no faster with a Sandybridge i5/faster RAM/faster HDD than with a Core 2 Duo running 1GHz slower.)

[DiBosco]

Hmmm, looks like there are similar errors elsewhere:

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Tro ... ndevice.22

I don't really understand what this is saying. Other pages surfing around I have found suggest all sorts of things that involve the command line. As I have no monitor, using the command line is a non-starter!

Looks like a bug to me.

[doktor5000]

So could you select Vesa driver during installation, does that work?

[DiBosco]

I did an "upgrade" of Mag 1 to Mag 1 and chose vesa, then installed the proprietary drivers. All works well now. (Other than it looking weird because of a previous version of KDE in the home directory.)