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S Jul 2, 2018 at 3:10 history suggested karel CC BY-SA 4.0
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Oct 2, 2013 at 13:52 comment added InventiousTech lspci | grep VGA tells me that it's an ATI Rage XL card. The only way I've gotten into a terminal is chrooting from the install dvd. When I boot into the actual hard drive, there's brief flash of "welcome to GRUB" then the monitor gives the error. Now, when I chroot and execute startx, there's no error, but the screen is blank. Do you know, does arch automatically boot into runlevel 3 or 5? I'm guessing 3 since X wasn't installed until I ran pacman -S x-server.... I've been trying to enable SSH, but I get a "connection refused". Can I do systemctl enable while chrooted from the disk?
Oct 2, 2013 at 8:54 comment added Mali Does the problem exist at boot time or when you startx ? i915 is for intel cards so i915.nomodeset has no effect for your AMD/ATI Card. Can you paste the result of lspci | grep VGA ? We need to know if your card support KMS which is now enabled by default in rencent kernel.
Oct 1, 2013 at 22:33 history edited InventiousTech CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 1, 2013 at 20:18 comment added jasonwryan You could try removing your xorg.conf as per the wiki...
Oct 1, 2013 at 19:31 comment added InventiousTech @jasonwryan Just the built in card. "lspci | grep VGA" says that it's AMD/ATI, so I'm using the xf86-video-ati driver.
Oct 1, 2013 at 17:10 comment added jasonwryan What video card are you using?
Oct 1, 2013 at 15:53 history edited terdon CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 1, 2013 at 15:31 answer added Mali timeline score: 1
Oct 1, 2013 at 13:57 history asked InventiousTech CC BY-SA 3.0