As reported it may be a timeout problem...
But if not, your video adaptor may not support BOTH vesa framebuffer mode
and the video resolution you selected.
The Aurora screen is buffered (initially) in video RAM.
It may be eating up RAM used for the actual X display.
Try getting to a console prompt and UNINSTALLING aurora (you can always
reinstall it).
Then see if you can run X.
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Darek KUZARA
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 4:08 AM
To: expert-linux-mandrake
Subject: [expert] GUI startup - black screen
Hello All,
Recently I have re-installed Linux Mandrake 7.2 with an option to start-up
GUI
after boot. I have defined Gnome as WM and screen resolution 1280x1024 with
16
bit colours (vga mode for lilo 794). However the installation type was
"user"
(not expert which I used to use before) and therefore my default boot
manager is
Grub. During the process of the Mandrake installation I tested the X and it
was
fine. However when I boot, Aurora boot works fine till it starts to launch
WM,
screen becomes black. I cannot not switch to text console either. The only
remedy at this point is hardware reboot which file system (ext2) dos not
like
very much ;-).
I booted my Mandrake from an installation CD in recovery mode in order to
view
some X files or Grub files but apparently I did not find anything to change.
Any help appreciated.
Regards,
Darek
