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8.04 LTS Live CD boots to a completely black desktop - Dell SX270 with Intel on-board i865 video chipset hooked up to DCL9 19" flat panel

Asked by BigBird4761

Downloaded and burned at 8x speed the 8.04 LTS iso; md5 checksum was OK. Want to install on Dell SX 270 with 2G ddr2 sdram, intel i865 onboard video chipset, monitor is a DCL LCD 19" flatpanel. When booting into the desktop the monitor shows a 'disconnect' emblem and the entire screen (desktop) is completely black. This emblem is an indicator that the screen resolution is an unsupported value. Max resolution for this monitor is 1280x1024 at 60hz. I have also run memcheck to ensure memory is OK, and it is; also ran media check and it is a good burn. The CD boots fine on the brute home-built box. I have run several other distros on this Dell with no problems (PCLOS minime 2008, Fedora 8/9, Mandriva One 2008.1, and Dreamlinux 3.0) Hardy will boot into a useable(?) desktop in safe video mode (640x480 at 73 Hz

Thanx for any help

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Nick Ellery (nick.ellery) said : 		#1

I've created a bug report for this.

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Brewster Malevich (brews) said : 		#2

Give the alternative install cd a try.

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BigBird4761 (wmc-0847) said : 		#3

I seem to have found a fix in the following from the LinuxMint forums:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel i810 "
Monitor "KDS VS-190is"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection