Graphics fail at start-up following HD install PCLINUXOS-E17, help please!

[quasarman]

Hello

After trying several distro's for a couple of weeks I have decided to go for PCLINUXOS-E17. After a very slow download from pclinuxos.org the live cd worked fine but after installing to the HD every time I try to boot the graphics fail completely and all I can do is reboot either under windows or using the live cd.

Can anyone please help, I am very much a newbie so have NO IDEA where to go...

[rayman2]

Ok. Which graphic card do you have? If you don't know which,  you can type "lspci" in the black screen you get when the graphics fail.
If you know what kind of graphic card you have, you can try typing "video"(as root), and select your graphic card. Then you need to choose which driver to use. Firstly, try "Vesa".
And post the results...

[quasarman]

Thanks

I don't get a black screen, I simply end up with scrambled graphics whilst trying to boot?

According to Windows system properties I have NVIDIA GeForce2 Go using driver version 5.6.7.3

Is there a way to tell the system to boot so that I may select my graphics? Can't see how / where to select Vesa mode either...

I'm currently having to switch between Windows and boot attempts!!! AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[rayman2]

If you select "linux-failsafe" in your boot menu, you can start up in non-graphic mode.

[quasarman]

Tried that, same problem

[travisN000]

I just posted instructions to boot to prompt without graphics on one of your other threads..  as far as selecting graphics goes, you can boot to init level 3 as described there, log in as root and then enter either the command "video", or XFdrake"  (they are both the same)...  a console based wizard will guide you through manually setting up your graphics driver.

Once you have it set up as you see fit, then try running the command "init 5" to finish the boot process to a normal full graphical desktop environment.