Stuck on cursor and black screen - New Installation

cierco · March 20, 2018 at 10:31 PM

I'm trying to install LibreELEC on my old notebook, but I'm having difficulties.

I performed the installation and when I rebooted, the splash screen appeared, the version of LibreELEC and then only a black screen with the cursor blinking every 10 seconds.

1 - I'm not able to SSH.

2- I wrote the image using the official tool

3 - I tried to reinstall 3 times and downloaded 3 different versions (8.2.4, 8.2.3 and 8.0.2)

Specs

Processor: AMD Turion 64 ML-34 1.8 GHz

Bus: 1600 MHz

Cache: 1 MB

Chipset: ATI RS482M

Memory RAM: 512MB DDR SODIMM SDRAM

Memory Bus: 333MHz

HD: 80 GB (5400RPM) Ultra DMA 133

Sound card: AC 97 (Azalia codec 7.1)

Video Card: ATI MOBILITY Radeon Xpress 200

Video Memory: 128MB

Help for noob pls

**blueribb** · March 21, 2018 at 1:53 AM

The cpu is from 2009. Maybe the hardware is no longer supported.

cierco · March 21, 2018 at 5:24 AM

It's a very old computer, in fact. But I need to know if it will actually run or not.

I do not want to simply discard the computer, but rather give it a feature by using LibreELEC.

**blueribb** · March 21, 2018 at 12:25 PM

You could try installing a much older version of LE or OE to see if that works

**Klojum** · March 21, 2018 at 5:28 PM Official Post

Quote from cierco

Video Card: ATI MOBILITY Radeon Xpress 200

That's a pretty prehistoric video card... Add to that the fact that AMD support has always had its ups and mostly downs, I'm not surprized another AMD gpu doesn't seem to respond. LibreELEC, i.e. Linux kernel support only goes so far.

Also: try one of the latest Milhouse builds. Who knows what kind of bunny pops out of the big hat.
See LibreELEC Testbuilds for x86_64 (Kodi 18.0)