On 14.03.2006 15:51, Nick Smith wrote:
i have an HP dv8135nr and for some reason the 64bit dvd install isnt working. I have selected safe mode and it still just goes to a black screen and doesnt go any further. it does have an ATI xpresss 200M graphics card in it. could that be the problem? i really would like to make use of this 64bit cpu, and SUSE has gotten the farthest out of everything distro ive tried to install on this thing, but it still hasnt even gotten to the install part yet..... are there any other things i can tell the kernel at boot to maybe get past this. or how about a text based install? but if the GUI doesnt work in the install it probably wont work after the install, so thats no good either.
thanks for any help
Nick
I have a Compaq Presario notbook with the same graphic chip. I got the installation working when disabling ACPI. Have to say, I installed 10.1 beta3. I also tried 10.0, but did not have any luck with that one. Later on I was thinking whether the trick is actually to do "no APIC" instead of "no ACPI". As I ran in other problems, I ended up installing the 32-bit version of 10.1 beta3 and that far run quite good with it. Did you try asking the HP support about that? Guenter