On 6/28/05, Sunny
On 6/28/05, Claude Fuhrer
wrote: Hi everybody
I've spent the whole day trying to install the 9.3 on a Dell Precision 370 (with a NVidia graphics card). The problem is the following :
I can boot on the dvd and the install software do the 2 phases of the installation (partionning the system and installing the base, doing the first boot and finalizing the installation). When the installation is finished (basically I've installed a KDE complete system, accepting all the default + ssh) I've rebooted the system. The beginning of the boot seems to be ok and the differents settings are all marked "done". When the system try to start the kdm, it displays a clock during some seconds and then only the mouse pointer on a black screen and nothing else happen. Even the keyboard does not let me to do anything (like a ctrl-alt-f1 to have an terminal for example). I can access the machine through ssh and I don't see anything wrong. But something is wrong because an "init 3" through ssh session does not have any action.
I know that my description of the problem is not precise enough to receive a solution, but if you can give me an hint for the direction where I should look... I did not found anything on the archive of the list ;-)
Thank you very much for your help
Put 3 in the boot prompt. This will boot in runlevel 3. Then login at the console and startx. See if something strange goes there.
Also, you may try sax2 from the console, and setup some low resolution mode to see what will happen.
Sunny
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