Black screen on a HP laptop

**your_breakfast** · 11-06-2004, 03:22 PM

After starting any kernels after the knoppix screen "press F2 or F3 and blah blah blah" i see loading vmlinuz............................... and then i get a black screen. I can't tell you what kind of a model it is exactly. I heard somewhere, that i can fix that by changing something in the bios-setup. But i dont know what to do exactly. Help!!

**OErjan** · 11-06-2004, 03:44 PM

actually when you se that with pressing f2... press F2, then you look what the text says, type (example) :
knoppix26 fb800x600 noscsi atapicd nodma
then press enter. it might not work, hmm, ok try another kombo, knoppix26 noscsi desktop=icewm
and so on, the cheatcodes should work, that is if you have a good CD, typing testcd when that line with boot: appears tests that

**Harry Kuhman** · 11-06-2004, 08:22 PM

Originally Posted by your_breakfast

............................. and then i get a black screen. I can't tell you what kind of a model it is exactly....

My HP laptop goes and stays blank at the same point with recent versions of Knoppix. Older versions worked fine. I can get past it with two cheat codes, I use either knoppix noscsi acpi=off or knoppix26 noscsi acpi=off for the newer kernel. Maybe it will work for you, maybe not. MY notebook is, exactly, a model ze4240 with an additional 256meg of memory added. Your results might be different. Why can't you tell us what model it is exactly, some sort of secret?