[vox-tech] replaced video card - get blank screen

[Kevin Murakoshi]

Suse uses larger framebuffer consoles, and graphics when it boots into text, 
so probably the new card is not as supported in these modes as the old one 
does, and when it tries to use them all you get is a blank screen.  

One idea is to use the suse install disk and boot to rescue, edit the 
lilo.conf file to remove the vga=??? line an the enablepic line (i think 
those are the right names) and rerun lilo.  
You might also be able to pass those paramaters to lilo at boot, at the lilo 
prompt type "linux disablepic vga=ask".   
Suse disables telnetd by default but usually installes sshd.  You can 
therefore probably ssh into the machine, and run stuff that way. 


Kevin


On Thursday 13 March 2003 10:04 am, Kevin Hooke wrote:
> I recently replaced the video card in my desktop (dual boot Suse8.0/WinXP)
> from an ATI Radeon AIW to a Radeon 9500.
>
> When I now boot in linux I get the Suse Lilo boot menu, and then past that
> point all I get is a blank screen. I've tried booting to just textmode
> (runlevel 2), but same thing - blank screen (I know the card is ok because
> it works fine in XP)
>
> I have an rpm for the latest drivers for the 9500 card - is there any way I
> can install them using rescue mode (this does display text ok) or something
> similar, or is the easiest way just to put the orginal card back in,
> install the new drivers, then put the new card in (I should have done this
> in the first place if I was thinking straight :-0
>
> I've tried to telnet in from another machine to install the driver that
> way, but it seems I don't have telnetd running (I can't connect).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
>
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