Installation from DVD hangs with DVD-drive working

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Installation from DVD hangs with DVD-drive working Mar 6, 2023 15:21:32 GMT

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Post by R0bur on Mar 6, 2023 15:21:32 GMT

Mar 6, 2023 12:20:30 GMT franz47 said:

I went through all BIOS configs, there is nothing offering a choice for the display.

I learned the specification of HP ProBook 4515s from this datasheet:

www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2009/Mobility2009/Datasheet-Datasheet.4515s.pdf

The "Graphics" chapter contains:

ATI Radeon HD 3200 integrated graphics, ATI Mobility RadeonTM HD 4330 discrete graphics, with 512 MB dedicated video memory (1024 MB HyperMemory*)

*Indicates dedicated video memory and shared system memory. 512 MB dedicated video memory.

Please check the BIOS again for the "HyperMemory" settings and disable it or reduce it to the minimal value (128 MB, 64MB or 32MB) if it is possible.

P.S. Try to switch to the text console (Ctrl+Alt+F2), login as "bodhi" and determine the notebook graphics adapter as described here: help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

lspci -nn | grep -E 'VGA|Display'

It should report something like this for your graphics card and/or APU:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV710 [Radeon HD 4550]

Maybe there are ATI driver kernel parameters to restrict the graphics memory size...

Last Edit: Mar 6, 2023 16:16:56 GMT by R0bur: P.S.

franz47 Member Posts: 14 Likes: 1	Installation from DVD hangs with DVD-drive working Mar 9, 2023 12:41:29 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by franz47 on Mar 9, 2023 12:41:29 GMT Sorry, but there is nothing in the BIOS configs even distantly reminding me of video or hypermemory....

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Installation from DVD hangs with DVD-drive working Mar 14, 2023 12:51:44 GMT

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Post by R0bur on Mar 14, 2023 12:51:44 GMT

Mar 9, 2023 12:41:29 GMT franz47 said:

Sorry, but there is nothing in the BIOS configs even distantly reminding me of video or hypermemory....

There is a way to restrict VRAM usage with the radeon driver parameter "vramlimit". Try to add that to the kernel parameters as described here :

radeon.vramlimit=256
This restrict VRAM to 256 MB. This is quite enough for Bodhi.
You can check the memory usage using the command:

free -h

Installation from DVD hangs with DVD-drive working

Post by R0bur on Mar 6, 2023 15:21:32 GMT

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