unable to reboot T30 laptop

**darksky** · 08-21-2003, 02:21 PM

Hi all,

I'm running the 06-06-2003 release of Knoppix 3.2 and I'm having problems with the screen on my laptop going black when I reboot. It powers up fine. I'm running a T30 laptop with a Radeon 7500 Mobile video card. I had this exact problem when I used to run Mandrake on this laptop. I was able to resolve the problem by disabling 3-D support on the video card. Where would I make this change with Knoppix?

Thanks for your help.

**rickenbacherus** · 08-21-2003, 04:53 PM

Sounds as though your laptop is not working with APM or maybe you just need to boot with the correct diver. Try this: Open a term, and enter sudo halt See if that kills the Xserver properly. Also try CTRL+ALT+BKSPC to kill the xserver. You can specify which driver to use at the boot prompt. I would suggest

boot: knoppix lang=us xmodule=ati

or

xmodule=vesa or xmodule=radeon

**darksky** · 08-23-2003, 01:07 PM

Thanks for the help.

It's definitely running the correct driver. Is there a way to disable the 3-D support? This is what caused the problem when I was running Mandrake 9.1 on this laptop.

When I get a chance, I'm also going to check for an updated driver.

Thanks.