Sigh... Please help... Black screen BEFORE startx.

[99X99]

I'm on an Acer Aspire 7715 laptop.
Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family is my graphics card.

So I boot up the DVD-RW I burned it on, burned at slowest speed.
I let it boot, I get the interface to select what I want to boot... memtest or safe mode etc...
I boot up the default option, text mode... It loads everything up and then I get a black screen.

It's black as if the monitor is turned off, completely black.

I tried both the iso and the dvd itself in vmware, and it boots up fine. Where I would get a black screen,
vm gets the backtrack background and then the place where I can type startx, then it boots up and I can install...

So probably there's some problem with my graphics card or I am missing drivers?

Any help appreciated. Thanks.

[ThiagoNascimento]

I'm on an Acer Aspire 7715 laptop.
Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family is my graphics card.

So I boot up the DVD-RW I burned it on, burned at slowest speed.
I let it boot, I get the interface to select what I want to boot... memtest or safe mode etc...
I boot up the default option, text mode... It loads everything up and then I get a black screen.

It's black as if the monitor is turned off, completely black.

I tried both the iso and the dvd itself in vmware, and it boots up fine. Where I would get a black screen,
vm gets the backtrack background and then the place where I can type startx, then it boots up and I can install...

So probably there's some problem with my graphics card or I am missing drivers?

Any help appreciated. Thanks.

Try installing in pendrive wtih UNetbootin http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
or download again... (What is your version of BackTrack?)


(I am Brazilian)

[Godfrey]

Just type startx and then you may see the Xserver starts.

[Smartie]

So I boot up the DVD-RW I burned it on, burned at slowest speed.
I let it boot, I get the interface to select what I want to boot... memtest or safe mode etc...
I boot up the default option, text mode... It loads everything up and then I get a black screen.

It's black as if the monitor is turned off, completely black.

I had that too, but solved it with the solution given to me on this forum.

If you see the boot menu or GRUB, punch the TAB-key to edit the boot string. The part you looking for looks like this: "text splash nomodeset=1 vga=791"

You need to change that to "quite splash i915.modeset=1 vga=791" ... so "text" becomes "quiet" and "nomodeset" becomes "i915.modeset=1"

Anyway, since this is my very first comment, I must ask you to first search this forum and read, read and read until your head hurts, just like the rest of us are doing or have done.

Good luck