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pindar:
Hi,

I'm having a problem which may not be solvable, but wanted to try asking here nevertheless. I installed the latest version (2012.08) to my external hard disk; installation worked without difficulties. However, I can't boot the installed system to get to the configuration stage. My computer has a Radeon HD 6600M video card. Because of some special circumstances in the way it boots up, it will work

* with fglrx drivers and very new kernels (>= 3.5) or
* with the free radeon drivers.My problem is that pclinuxos comes with kernel 3.2.18, so no fglrx for me, and in the kernel config, it has

--- Code: ---# CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS is not set
--- End code ---
so the free radeon drivers won't work. So I'd have to either recompile the 3.2.18 kernel with RADEON_KMS set, or compile and install a brand new kernel, both of which is difficult if I can't boot into the system... Can anybody think of any solution? Is there any generic video driver I could try? Or any other workaround?

Thanks pindar

DeBaas:
You are in a black terminal screen I think ?
drakxconf
as command could be the solution.

pindar:
No, I don't even get to a terminal since the system is installed, but not configured (so no passwords set, etc.). Besides, it's a kernel issue, so drakxconf is unlikely to help.

DeBaas:
What about starting wth VESA as extra in the command line ?
In the Grub boot screen:
From LiveCD F6 > Default > Boot options > type VESA and enter
From installed version F3 > Default > Boot options > type VESA and enter

(If memory serves well)

Yankee:
If you can boot up in safe mode, install do-vesa from
Synaptic, run do-vesa from terminal, reboot, you should get
to a full graphical boot, and use that until the right
driver is found.

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