From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RDMVE-0005DR-Tl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:31:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56CC521C2BB; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:30:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6227421C1A4 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:29:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxk30 with SMTP id 30so8211993yxk.40 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:29:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=eBpxayXzNQfXBpphMEfIdzVEOGhIqaja5ASVspiLn7M=; b=QrWNWTh6erlLFgQU6X10NOCf835C42B3ORelA+nLRUK4+9+otJFWs9Ld1C4pMTY1U+ Z2Q1Thw/6BH9aVSZIuKfqlxe9VunnZkNlQSasQudpKUIqjAjrPBrFA1cSg7S1JNItILh 0/jRZfHqXJ0b0a24zJn1Iu7LNhgekg+7TI/Jk= Received: by 10.150.195.9 with SMTP id s9mr7602947ybf.67.1318278569715; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:29:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.11] (bas1-hamilton02-1176443208.dsl.bell.ca. [70.31.25.72]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k31sm55372950ann.15.2011.10.10.13.29.28 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E935615.6070900@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:31:17 -0400 From: CJoeB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110602 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue References: <4E93504A.8090402@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a9685e31f2b1ea2f4a3cbbbe1422310d On 10/10/11 16:17, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:06 PM, CJoeB wrote= : >> Today, I went through the install process, had a couple of issues, but= >> was able to figure them out and got to the point where I was supposed = to >> boot into my new system. I got the boot menu, the boot process seemed= >> to be okay, but when I got to the point where I assumed I should get a= >> command prompt to finish up, all I got was a weird screen that was hal= f >> black and half fuzzy with a bunch of colours (sorry, I can describe th= is >> any better). I tried recompiling the kernel thinking it was a problem= >> that I had created during the initial compilation, but that ended with= >> the same result. >> >> The computer is a Dell XPS 8300 >> It has a Radeon graphics card, but I wouldn't think this would be an >> issue until I tried to install X. >> >> Does anyone have any ideas? > Try dropping framebuffer console drivers? I'll try this, but I REALLY want those cute little penguins that appear when the computer is booting! :-) > Also, what exact model of Radeon? The specs that came with the computer say its and AMD Radeon HD 6450 1GB DDR3 Regards, Colleen --=20 Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.o= rg