Live CD install goes to black screen

[richardgmills]

It's probably here somewhere, but I can't find it, so sorry in advance if I'm asking something that's been asked 100 times before. — I have tried to install Mageia 2 Live first with Gnome and then with KDE, and both versions take me to what I assume is a big smile, followed by one eye, followed by the other eye, and then a blank screen with nothing happening. I'm guessing this has to do with a video card/driver? I have am using an Acer laptop on which I intended to install a dual-boot with Windows Vista and Mandriva Linux, but the latter ate the former, and I can't find my Acer system DVDs, so I thought I might dual-boot with Mageia, instead, since someone said it is "everything Mandriva *should* have been!" I am not sure what the video card is, and, of course, I now can't go to Vista to view my system info.

Any suggestions to help me at least see Mageia before installing it?

Thanks,

Richard
http://ThinkMills.com

[tom_]

on the Mageia2 Live CD

to have a boot with a safer video driver:
press F6, select "Default" and enter xdriver=vesa and press Enter.

to have a complete boot in a terminal (no graphics):
press F6, select "Default" and enter a space and a 3 at the end of the line, press Enter.