<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>As you are aware, I booted into a black screen when attempting to boot the 0.8.8 ISO on my new UEFI compaq (pentium).</div><div><br></div><div>I believe this thread explains the reason (i.e. it's not UEFI):<a href="https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=143903">https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=143903</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>The key may be this: "<span style="background-color:rgb(252,253,254);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">I overcame this problem by adding acpi_backlight=vendor to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst." (may be etc/default/grub for us)</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(252,253,254);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(252,253,254);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">Phil, can you point me in the right direction to try this out (i.e. update </span><span style="background-color:rgb(249,249,249);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace,Courier;font-size:13px;line-height:1.3em">GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=)</span><span style="background-color:rgb(252,253,254);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">? Won't push any changes.</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(252,253,254);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(252,253,254);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">Carl</span></div>
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