06-04-2020, 02:03 PM
(06-04-2020, 01:48 PM)tophneal Wrote:(06-04-2020, 01:43 PM)7tubb9 Wrote: I booted again and waited 30 mins then pressed ESC, the installer popped up! I went throught it and when it was done, it tried to reboot but there was an error on calling the sleep function so I just turned it off myself. When I took out the SD card and turned it on it when back to the black screen that was happening before I started any of this.
What happens when you try to switch to a tty?
This sounds a lot like a problem i had with Manjaro KDE on the PB1080. Most boots the display would black out after "Starting Kernel.." You might try what I would do, if you're not in a rush. When that happened on my PB1080, I would simply close the lid do something else for 20-30m and wake it. I would then be able to see SDDM and login.
Since that calls for you to wait even longer, you could also try booting another OS, like Fedora from SD and ensure it's not a hardware issue/lose connection.
I did it a second time and pressed ESC immediately and it booted normally! I was so excited and filled out the information and got to the desktop. I shut it down to text if it still works after that and... NOPE. I turned it on to a black screen. I don't know how to go to tty and would I have to do the lid trick every time if it works? Should I return this and get a new one?