Black Screen after loading

celtic426, we need more information on your computer. Please give us details on the make and model of computer, amount of RAM, type of CPU, type of graphics card. Any/all of these could have an impact.

Also, what version of Mepis are you using, where did you get it, and how did you burn it? Because the disk could be bad. Have you tried it on a different computer with the same results?

Jon

The ability to comfortably use a computer is directly proportional to desire to listen, learn, and experiment, and is inversely proportional to the fear, anger, and stubbornness that you show.

ok i am on a hp pavilion laptop, dv6500

2 gb RAM
2.0 ghz intel 2 core duo
nvidia graphics card

its the newest version i think and i got it from a mirror. i think the burn is ok cause i checked it.

and um...i have using debian linux as well and i get a smiliar problem. it gave me an error saying no screens found. i think this is a graphics problem. i am working on getting that fixed as well, but maybe this could be a hint as to what is causing this problem. thanks.

OK, it looks like you have plenty of RAM and speed, so yes, I think the culprit's probably the graphics card.

If you have already done an md5sum on the download (and did you burn the CD at a slow < 8X speed, using a CD-R) then can you try to boot up a different computer with that same CD to see what happens?

If that works, boot up your problem computer and choose the default settings for the boot (don't change anything related to graphics). If that doesn't work, try one of the other boot options (vesa) to see if you get a different result.

There are others here who are better with the graphics, so perhaps they'll chime in soon

Jon

The ability to comfortably use a computer is directly proportional to desire to listen, learn, and experiment, and is inversely proportional to the fear, anger, and stubbornness that you show.

Thanks for your help Jon. I did everything you told me to do, but still no luck.

One thing to try, did you try the 32 bit variant? Download the 64 bit and give it a spin.
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even tho i have a 32 bit processor?

intel 2 core duo? I thought that's 64 bit...

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news: after the loading screen i can click ctrl alt f1 to get to a menu where it says like "mepis login:"

is there anything i can type here to make this work?

btw i tried the 64 bit edition, same thing happens.

Did you try Vesa option? Other (lower) resolution?

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ya i did, i tried many of those options

Hmm, sorry for your problem, short of trying another video card I have no idea what you could do. (BTW, what's the model of your video card?)

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You really shouldn't need to go to another session to start things up (that's what ctrl+alt+f1, etc do). The default session is on tty 6 (ctrl+alt+f7). But if you are on the first session, where it prompts you to log in, enter "root" as the user name, and "root" as the password. You will be taken to a plain, black screen. Enter the command "startx" and the screen should go black, and after a moment you should be at a KDE screen. If not, you will get a whole bunch of error messages. You don't need to write down everything (too much), but provide us with some of what you see. It might help to diagnose the problem.

I'm wondering if you really got "the newest version". Can you please tell us what the name of the ISO file was that you downloaded? Because a lot of these "late starting GUI" issues happened a long time ago.

Jon

The ability to comfortably use a computer is directly proportional to desire to listen, learn, and experiment, and is inversely proportional to the fear, anger, and stubbornness that you show.

Just recently my mepis install has been exiting the loading graphical screen just when it usually starts X and displays the nvidia spash screen, to a text terminal suggesting pressing Alt+F7 or Alt +F8. When i do this it starts x and loads the desktop no problem.
I don't know why its doing this but it seems to be something interupting the startup just before the x server starts.
It doesn't do this everytime I boot up mepis but sometimes it can happen for 6 boots out of 10.

please tell which graphics card you have - i've had one very new one which gave this trouble as it was too new to be recognised as a graphics card

I am having the same problem with the most 64bit 6.5 image on a brand spankin' new macbook pro. It has the NVIDIA Quadro 8600M GT. I have tried all sorts of boot options including vesa with sometimes no ability to even switch to a text console.
I see a very recent version of nvidia driver adds support for this card:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_100.14.09.html

Last night I downloaded the 6.9 prebeta iso and tried it thinking it could have the newer nvidia. However, it fails to locate the kernel image--an issue I will followup with elsewhere.

we put another older card in the machine
performed the important updates
installed the linux-source and then installed the latest nvidia drivers
hand edited the xorg.conf
and it works fine with the really new card installed now