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 1RDMJa-0001ZJ-7U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:19:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 405C321C2B3; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:18:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F0AB21C296 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:17:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzt12 with SMTP id zt12so11583345bkb.40 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:17:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=T+Ue208fjI1sHzvTKN+CG5WZBg7aRjX62XwawX4a/RA=; b=HThSr5tk1j48jeNv1cccBOvyUJMUN6VWS0nvbr8QTRJdT+FloWxrqXUW4vSl2/MMgH 8fp2Pt0+gixrhPurSoVZf3BbgXfqoTt3RhWTeaZ+OVzJRT8DGSPVG2i1vjnGsVjam0Qw 8p3r/OPZ7YPQw6WkQ9K7m+F6yksckJoE9QZFA= 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 Received: by 10.204.130.68 with SMTP id r4mr7101760bks.62.1318277854540; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:17:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.177.199 with HTTP; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:17:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E93504A.8090402@gmail.com> References: <4E93504A.8090402@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:17:34 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: cd67bb06ea11f37ce6d01820dc726798 On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:06 PM, CJoeB wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I hope someone will be able to "lead me by the nose" here. > > For a number of weeks now, I have been trying to install Gentoo on my > new desktop. =C2=A0I kept running into issues and due to time constraints > when I was installing, I put off trying to resolve them. > > 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. =C2=A0I got the boot menu, the boot process seem= ed > 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 half > black and half fuzzy with a bunch of colours (sorry, I can describe this > any better). =C2=A0I tried recompiling the kernel thinking it was a probl= em > 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? Also, what exact model of Radeon? --=20 :wq