Guest acedip Report post Posted October 3, 2008 i recently downloaded mandriva one kde spring 2008 .iso , burned it and ran the cd. after the booting screen and u can see it unpacking but after its finished, the screen blanks out and nothing happens after that. I had ubuntu installed,i was replacing it with mandriva. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
medo3891 0 Report post Posted October 4, 2008 A graphics card problem apparently. When the screen blanks press Alt+Ctrl+F1, then log in as root: localhost login: root Open: drakx11 reconfigure your card and choose the Xorg VESA driver (or if you have a Nvidia card choose the Xorg nv driver). Get back to the text console, next: service dm stop startx Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
speedball2 1 Report post Posted October 5, 2008 I had a similar sounding problem when I was installing 2008.1. Try putting acpi=ht into the boot options if the first reply doesn't fix it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
K Bergen 1 Report post Posted October 5, 2008 I'm not trying to be picky but unless you have a hyperthreading processor acpi=ht is the same as acpi=off. Ken Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
