Topic: gui wont load (looks like static)
Hey.
I'm dual booting archlinux with vista. Right now my main partition for arch is only 4GB. I have around 150GB of space I want to expand it to.
Anyway, I burned the live iso onto a cd and booted it off of it. The boot works well until it tries to load the gui. The screen just starts to look like static. I can access virtual terminals 2-6 (or something like that), and the first one just gives me the output from the boot.
This isn't the first time I had a problem like this. When I was first trying to get linux on my machine I had to go through 3 distros before I got to arch. One of them was fedora. I actually got fedora loaded onto my hard drive, but when I tried to boot, the same type of "static" came instead of the gui. I never got that resolved (due in part, perhaps, to a lack of effort, since I soon after got arch installed with kde).
Anyway, any help resolving this issue would be greatly appreciated.
edit: oh ya, I should mention that while under vista, my graphics have been working okay, but there were occasional glitches I noticed (part of the screen is black on boot up for like a second, random textures in games begin to flash)