Screen turns black - Installation on IBM M52

[Christian Noelle]

Binary package hint: base-installer

Hi!

We encounter a strange problem with the installation of kubuntu 6.0.6.1. We are using the alternate disk and performin a text-based installation. As the installers enters the stage of unpacking and setting up the packages, the system freezes at the xorg package. The screen is turning black and only a hard reset is possible. As this is at the installer stage, I file this bug not for xorg but for the base-installer.

System details:

ThinkCentre M52 8215-G2G
Intel® Pentium® D Processor 820, 512MB, 80GB 7200RPM S-ATA HDD, PCI/PCIe Small Form Factor (2x3), Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950, 48x32x48x16x CD-RW/DVD, Intel Gigabit Ethernet

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Probably another instance of the resolution probe hanging the box. Booting with xserver-xorg/autodetect_monitor=false should confirm this.

[Christian Noelle (noelle)]

Thx for reponse. As we do not have any machine to test this solution right now, I am not able to confirm this. As this was some time ago, I remember that I used a workaround with a installation of Edgy and then updating to Dapper with the update-manager. That worked well.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Is this still occurring on gutsy-beta? If so, please attach your xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log, and the output from lspci -vvnn, xresprobe <driver>, and uname -a.