Lots of Dapper Problems

[Simon Bassett]

This issue also haunted me during the dapper install (also homebuilt
AMD) I made it through the install by passing noapic & nolapic at the
time of CD boot. After that, it went through fine.



On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 16:49 -0400, Bill Atkins wrote:
> 
> I considered doing a fresh install from a Dapper install CD, but even
> this caused problems for me.  On my desktop (I haven't tried this
> approach on my laptop yet). The installer starts a series of services
> and then starts GDM and "HP Printing and Imaging service".  At this
> point, the screen goes blank and nothing can be done about it.  I've
> tried the alternate CD; I've tried various VGA modes; I've tried doing
> the CD consistency check (both were fine);  I've tried booting with
> the debian-installer/framebuffer=false boot flag.  No dice - no dice
> whatsoever.  I have a hunch this is a video card problem (ATi Radeon
> 9250SE), but I don't know what to do about it.