Blank Screen During Mandriva Install

[darudey]

If I have two HDDs same model, make, size, does this cause some type of conflict? Could this cause the blank screen problem?

[scarecrow]

If I have two HDDs same model, make, size, does this cause some type of conflict? Could this cause the blank screen problem?

 

Nope. The black screen is because the driver isn't properly installed.

alt+crtl+backspace is now disabled by default in xorg settings, as Ubuntuland thought a newbie could possible press these three keys together by accident...

The videocard is well supported by the regular nvidia driver, and should work right out of the box.

Maybe you have installed the "server" kernel? Which is the output of

uname -a

Edited January 17, 2010 by scarecrow

[darudey]

Nope. The black screen is because the driver isn't properly installed.

alt+crtl+backspace is now disabled by default in xorg settings, as Ubuntuland thought a newbie could possible press these three keys together by accident...

The videocard is well supported by the regular nvidia driver, and should work right out of the box.

Maybe you have installed the "server" kernel? Which is the output of

uname -a

 

uname -a

Linux localhost 2.6.31.6-desktop586-1mnb #1 SMP Tue Dec 8 15:43:31 EST 2009 i686 Intel® Pentium® D CPU 2.66GHz GNU/Linux

 

It appears to be working ok now, but I'm worried it'll happen again.

[darudey]

Ok, I don't know exactly how or if I fixed it, but I've done the following, and so far, last 2 days, no blank screens:

 

1) Upgraded my motherboard BIOS

2) Reset the BIOS (also removes my overclock)

3) Remove any other Linux distro on any other HDDs I have

4) Ran an update

 

Will report if this problem crops up again. I could reinstall Mandriva again and check.