Graphics Problem on boot

a_sandwhich · June 2, 2011, 8:49pm

I just installed 11.4 and whenever I reboot, the screen that appears right after it goes through the boot cycle is black. I am assuming it is a problem with the graphics card or something like that. How can I fix this? I have a nvidia 240 gt.

DenverD · June 2, 2011, 10:01pm

On 06/02/2011 09:06 PM, a sandwhich wrote:
> I just installed 11.4 and whenever I reboot, the screen that appears
> right after it goes through the boot cycle is black.

see here:
http://tinyurl.com/23mgej6

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a_sandwhich · June 3, 2011, 5:23am

I have tried some of those solutions, they haven’t worked. Others I don’t know how to do, such as the starting up into the level 3 and running those commands, I don’t see any of those options or that startup menu.

gogalthorp · June 3, 2011, 7:07am

Just type a 3 then enter to start in terminal mode. It is not a menu item. Just type the 3

oldcpu · June 3, 2011, 7:48am

It would help if we knew EXACTLY what options you tried. Else its very difficult to provide ANY solutions.

Please answer the following:

Did you try booting with the boot code (in the initial grub boot splash menu): nomodeset
.
Did you try booting with the boot code (in the initial grub boot splash menu): x11failsafe
.
Did you try pressing F3 at the initial grub boot splash menu and select: safesettings
.
assuming you can boot to a full screen text mode, login as a regular user ‘linux’ using < enter > as password and type the following and post here the output:


/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep VGA -A2

This lspci command being to confirm your PC has only one VGA device.

a_sandwhich · June 3, 2011, 6:07pm

I can’t do any of those because I dont see grub boot splash menu. This probably because I didn’t install the opensuse mbr and have been going off of grub that was installed by another os.

oldcpu · June 3, 2011, 6:54pm

ahh … too bad. Sorry, I can’t help then.

a_sandwhich · June 3, 2011, 7:10pm

So is there anything I can do other than reinstalling opensuse and the mbr?

martin_helm · June 3, 2011, 7:23pm

a sandwhich wrote:

>
> I can’t do any of those because I dont see grub boot splash menu. This
> probably because I didn’t install the opensuse mbr and have been going
> off of grub that was installed by another os.
>
It is not a sacrileg to mention the name of the other OS or do you fear its
revenge by calling its name please provide the info and the version.
Since you mention grub here it sounds like another linux maybe, please tell
us which (ubuntu, mint use differnet grub versions than openSUSE which has
to be handled in a different way). If it is MS Windows and its bootloader
and no grub I have to digg deep in my memories.

a_sandwhich · June 3, 2011, 7:42pm

Oh, sorry, it is ubuntu’s default grub.

martin_helm · June 3, 2011, 7:56pm

a sandwhich wrote:

>
> So is there anything I can do other than reinstalling opensuse and the
> mbr?
>
There are special live cd 's which can help you repair or change the grub
without reinstalling.
Take a look at super grub disk
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/

a_sandwhich · June 3, 2011, 8:18pm

Ok, thank you, I will work on it.

martin_helm · June 3, 2011, 8:17pm

a sandwhich wrote:

>
> Oh, sorry, it is ubuntu’s default grub.
>
In that case it is grub 2, so you need not super grub disk but Rescatux (but
this I never tried you have to read how it works) from the link
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/

a_sandwhich · June 4, 2011, 4:27pm

Yes, I use rescatux a lot really. Mostly for restoring grub after messing around with windows bootloader. I dont remember seeing an option for change post grub menus or boot menus though, I might be forgetting a bit also.

a_sandwhich · June 22, 2011, 4:44am

Would it be possible to install the graphics drivers using a live cd/dvd of opensuse?

gropiuskalle · June 22, 2011, 5:23am

No.

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