Bug 577411

Summary:	KDE live-cd for x86-64 wont show the installation GUI
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3	Reporter:	Pascal Bakhuis <pBakhuis>
Component:	X.Org	Assignee:	Forgotten User Wum0mkMcd8 <forgotten_Wum0mkMcd8>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <xorg-maintainer-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	ctrippe, Joachim.Reichelt
Version:	Milestone 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 11.3
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Attachments:	Screenshot illustrating the step the bug occurs at. (Obviously with an older version as a black screen isn't too useful)

Description Pascal Bakhuis 2010-02-05 13:45:41 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091222 SUSE/3.5.7-1.1.1 Firefox/3.5.7

After downloading the image from http://software.opensuse.org/developer I burned it to a CD and attempted to boot it. While everything seems to go fine where there normally is a screen that asks for the keyboard settings there is now just a black screen. 

On the first boot it was actually a pink screen, after that I rebooted an used 'check install media' option, which checked out fine. Then the boot after that for another installation attempt came up with a black screen.
The cursor does show up and can be moved, the rest of the screen however is just one color without any buttons.

This is on a Compal laptop with a NVIDIA 9600GT M videocard.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Christian Trippe 2010-02-11 20:30:38 UTC

I honestly do not fully understand your report.

So where does the black screen occur?

> While everything seems to go fine
> where there normally is a screen that asks for the keyboard settings there is
> now just a black screen. 

So the KDE desktop of the Live CD loads fine and when you try to install it you get a black screen?

Comment 2 Joachim Reichelt 2010-02-11 21:30:43 UTC

Is this bug 577140?

Comment 3 Pascal Bakhuis 2010-02-15 11:03:45 UTC

Although I can not confirm it is the same exact bug I did experience this bug after installing it from the DVD instead of the KDE Live CD-ROM. Also I had the 'strange colors' persist after the log in screen. As in the entire OS was near unusable due to being nearly unreadable, I resolved this by installing the official proprietary NVIDIA drivers.

Comment 4 Pascal Bakhuis 2010-02-15 11:08:22 UTC

Created attachment 342425 [details]
Screenshot illustrating the step the bug occurs at. (Obviously with an older version as a black screen isn't too useful)

As for the original problem which I'm guessing is related.

At the step on the screenshot, pretty much the first 'graphical' step I had nothing but a black (or pink) screen when booting the KDE x86-64 Live CD-ROM into 'Installation' mode.
(Just to reconfirm, the 'Check Installation Media' checked out okay)

Comment 5 Stefan Dirsch 2010-02-26 07:59:46 UTC

Dup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 577140 ***