Ultimate Edition 5.7 'Black Screen' @ login prompt
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 1:47 amHello everyone.
Ran into an interesting video loop problem, but also found an interesting solution to it.
When running a new download (5.7), chose the 'Try UltimateEdition' option. Everything seemed to go okay, until I reached the logon prompt. when I tried to enter the log-on name, (5 attempts), the screen would go black, and TTY screens were not unavailable; all appearance the system was frozen. All I could see was a small white underline cursor in the upper left. Had to do the old 'hold down power button' option to restart computer.
Did some google searches for the issue. Found nothing which met the problem criteria; though several did give some interesting pointers, which I tried.
When nothing seemed to work, decided to combine a couple different solutions. What seemed to ultimately work, at least for me, is to edit the "try UltimateEdition boot option (by tabbing at boot screen menu), removing the quiet option and adding the following, just before the splash option.
Suspect this is the nefarious Nvidia driver video loop problem rearing its ugly head. However, I do have a Nvidia GeForce video card installed.
One other option to try might be to use nomodeset option instead of using the nouveau.modeset=0 option.
Everyones mileage may vary....
Hope this helps someone.
AzTeech
My system specs for the test bed -
-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Core(TheeMahn)2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50GHz
Memory : 4031MB (1707MB used)
Machine Type : Desktop
Operating System : Ultimate Edition 5.7 LTS
User Name : ultimate (Live session user)
Date/Time : Sun Oct 29 05:36:22 2017
-Display-
Resolution : 1280x800 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : llvmpipe (LLVM 5.0, 128 bits)
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
-Storage-
-SCSI Disks-
ATA ST3360320AS
ATAPI iHAS124 B
Ran into an interesting video loop problem, but also found an interesting solution to it.
When running a new download (5.7), chose the 'Try UltimateEdition' option. Everything seemed to go okay, until I reached the logon prompt. when I tried to enter the log-on name, (5 attempts), the screen would go black, and TTY screens were not unavailable; all appearance the system was frozen. All I could see was a small white underline cursor in the upper left. Had to do the old 'hold down power button' option to restart computer.
Did some google searches for the issue. Found nothing which met the problem criteria; though several did give some interesting pointers, which I tried.
When nothing seemed to work, decided to combine a couple different solutions. What seemed to ultimately work, at least for me, is to edit the "try UltimateEdition boot option (by tabbing at boot screen menu), removing the quiet option and adding the following, just before the splash option.
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vga=normal fb=false nouveau.modeset=0
Suspect this is the nefarious Nvidia driver video loop problem rearing its ugly head. However, I do have a Nvidia GeForce video card installed.
One other option to try might be to use nomodeset option instead of using the nouveau.modeset=0 option.
Everyones mileage may vary....
Hope this helps someone.
AzTeech
My system specs for the test bed -
-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Core(TheeMahn)2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50GHz
Memory : 4031MB (1707MB used)
Machine Type : Desktop
Operating System : Ultimate Edition 5.7 LTS
User Name : ultimate (Live session user)
Date/Time : Sun Oct 29 05:36:22 2017
-Display-
Resolution : 1280x800 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : llvmpipe (LLVM 5.0, 128 bits)
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
-Storage-
-SCSI Disks-
ATA ST3360320AS
ATAPI iHAS124 B