Hello, I have the following Notebook: http://www.uni-notebooks.de/Single-Ansicht.140.0.html?&cHash=863679576a&tx_ttproducts_pi1[backPID]=59&tx_ttproducts_pi1[product]=1114 LENOVO ThinkPad T61 Modell NH0BBGE 6457-BBG It has a Core Duo T9300 Processor and an 128 MB DDR RAM; nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M graphics card. Unfortunately, the live CD ends with a black screen. I have now installed the minimal CD and this works. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert the Live CD of Gentoo 2008.0 final into an Lenovo LENOVO ThinkPad T61 Modell NH0BBGE 6457-BBG Laptop 2. 3.
I have a ThinkPad T61 model 7663CTO and can also confirm that this happens this me too. It just shows a black screen when trying to launch xorg and CD-ROM activity stops. This computer has a Core 2 Duo T9500 and a nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M.
The NVIDIA-Driver isn't installed before the installation - so X can't start. You have to install Gentoo in console-mode using the boot options: gentoo-nofb nox. First I had the same problems like you, but now It works perfectly. I also recommend the following thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-747545-highlight-thinkpad.html With the amd64-version, gentoo will run MUCH faster on our Thinkpads. Greets
regarding comment 2: Why does vesa or the free nv driver from xorg not work? Of course the cd should load the free nv driver or the vesa driver and this should work with an nvidia graphics card...
(In reply to comment #3) > regarding comment 2: > > Why does vesa or the free nv driver from xorg not work? Of course the cd should > load the free nv driver or the vesa driver and this should work with an nvidia > graphics card... > I haven't tried tried the vesa driver, but I know about the nvidia drivers that it is better to use the proprietary one. Just "emerge nvidia-drivers". If you want I can send you my xorg.conf - it works perfectly :) Greets
Of course with nvidia cards one should use the proprietary driver from nvidia in an install. However, if the life cd cannot have those proprietary drivers, the life cd should try either the free xorg driver or the vesa driver. Hence that the cd does not have the proprietary driver is no excuse for this bug to happen. Xorg should in any case be able to start from the life cd
I have a brand new ThinkPad R400 with Intel craphic card lspci 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) The problem occurs with gentoo kernel and gentoo-nofb kernel. The system crashes with a black screen just before loading kdm. Alt+ctrl+f1, ctrl+alt+del and ctrl+backspace don't work but fn+brightness does. Installation from other media like netinstall or gentoo-livecd-200.8.1 works fine.
Could you try with one of the testing livedvd's; http://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/gentoo-10.0_pre20090926-1952/amd64/
This version http://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/gentoo-10.0_pre20090926-1952/amd64/ works fine. No wireless neither desktop effects, but X start without problems. If you need specific data about my system please write me. bye
(In reply to comment #8) > This version > http://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/gentoo-10.0_pre20090926-1952/amd64/ > works fine. No wireless neither desktop effects, but X start without problems. > If you need specific data about my system please write me. > bye > If you could report any issues to bug 286589 thanks
No more livecds, so closing this bug.
