Black screen issue

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I had a ‘Black screen’ problem when i rebooted my laptop after the clean installation. Actually, i could only enter recovery mode.

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Hello and welcome here.

A bit of information would be nice to help people here to help you.

You did an installation, probably of openSUSE, but which version?

As this is about your screen, the expression “laptop” isn’t very usefull. At least the make, but better the type of the graphics card is needed. And the make and type of the laptop may not be realy needed, but it is always nice to introduce things and you never know if you are not the first one who bought such a thing and then others with the same laptop might be able to help you.

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I also have this problem after updated openSUSE 12.2 with Apper. It bother me a long time.

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Tell us about your graphics hardware

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Don’t use Apper
It’s broken.

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what should I use? I’m a newer.

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Updates are best done with zypper

su -
zypper up
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Thanks for your attention.
useful lspci output as below:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)

And I did some more searches with my laptop model no. which is Acer Aspire 4736z, my graphic card is supposed to be Intel GM45?( I am not so sure). As for the official driver download page( which is for windows), please click this link: http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers

cat /proc/version output as followed:
Linux version 3.4.6-2.10-desktop

This is quite annoying. Please help!

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Your Intel graphics is supported

Look at mine:

Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller            X.Org: 1.12.3 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express Chipset GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4

And

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 09)        Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3a00]
        Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 09)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3a02]
        Kernel driver in use: i915

I’m on openSUSE 12.2

System:    Host: kernelcruncher.site Kernel: 3.4.11-2.16-desktop x86_64 (64 bit)            Desktop KDE 4.9.4 Distro: openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) VERSION = 12.2 CODENAME = Mantis
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I have solved the problem. It turns out that grub2 should be configured.
Thank you again !

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how to configure? could u give me some tips?

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Can you boot your system?
Tell us what the problem is exactly…

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I support lidamond. This is a community. We try to help each other. It is not very nice to keep the solution for yourself. Othres may benifit from knowing what you did.