First Time – Blank Screen

[TyrasSubscriber]

Hi

I’m using a x86_64 PC with NVidia 9400GT. I’ve connected my Philips Flatscreen via HDMI.
My problem is as soon as I chosse boot condiguration the last message I can see is “Framebuffer not found”. Everything else is black.
When I choose debug I can see some kernel messages but after them the screen turns black again.

I’m running Ubuntu 12 with XBMC fine on the same machine.

Do you have any ideas how to get it work?

I wouls prefer a lighter distribution for my mediacenter.

[tomlohaveKey Master]

ok a partial solution here :

http://www.geexbox.org/forum/topic/no-kbd-response-at-boot-screen/#post-4645

i hope it can help you

BR

Tom

[TyrasSubscriber]

Well my problem is I can’t see anyhting in default. In debug mode I can use the console a s loong as I don’t continue normal bootup.

I tried to do a hard disk installtion as you have suggested so I can change the installtion. The problem is /media/GEEXBOX doesn’t exist. Is this the installation CD? I’ve run installator without copying any files. failed at boot and copyied vmlinuz and inintrd by hand.

Now I can see xbmc flickering at the screen 3 times. After that screen is black even on consoles

In debug mode I can use the console as long as I stop normal boot by entering the root password.
Unfortunatly I debug mode there is no network.

I will see how far I will come

[tomlohaveKey Master]

ok, so

you have a normal screen when you start normally (boot from cd ?), right ?

the solution provided was with the use of an usb-stick, not a cd

[TyrasSubscriber]

Hi

No I only have normal screen when I start in debug mode and enter root console.
In any other case the screen is black

Without screen it’s difficult to do anything

In debug mode there’s no network so it’s difficult to make changes.

[tomlohaveKey Master]

ok , can you remove quiet when booting, then post the last messages

thanks

[TyrasSubscriber]

Hi I got it. With removing quiet I was able to get a working console. Xorg had trouble to detect my flatscrren right. My solution was to remova anything form /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and copy my ubuntu corg.conf there.

Now I can try to setup the system inclunding raid and encryption.
BTW: Do you have any idea why the serial port isn’t detected during startup?

[tomlohaveKey Master]

not sure serial is enable …

[TyrasSubscriber]

Hm very strange. The port is working fine in ubuntu. In geebox I can’t find anything about serial ports in kernel boot log

[tomlohaveKey Master]

http://hg.openbricks.org/geexbox/file/e301b3b5a052/config/platforms/i386/generic/linux.conf

serial is enabled

so maybe a module need to be loaded,

can you check on ubuntu ?

[TyrasSubscriber]

Relevant output of dmesg:
1.053250] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 32 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[Â Â Â 1.073753] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[Â Â Â 1.160645] 00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

Output of lsmod: http://pastebin.com/MvR7s5Yy

Part of kernel-config:
#
# Serial drivers
#
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FIX_EARLYCON_MEM=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PNP=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CS=m
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=48
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS=32
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_SHARE_IRQ=y
# CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DETECT_IRQ is not set
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RSA=y

I tried to modprobe 8250, 8250_pci and 8250_pnp. None has found the port.

Any idea left?

[tomlohaveKey Master]

Arch for geexbox : i386 or x86_64 ?

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