Bug#684240: lenovo t61 laptop fails to shutdown

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Luis,

Luis Mochan wrote:

> I tried, but after blacklisting nvidia, commenting out
> nvidia-kernel-common.conf and running update-initramfs -u to avoid
> nvidia being loaded, the noveau driver was loaded instead and the
> video of my laptop became useless. I couldn't use nor X nor the text
> consoles. I had to boot from a live CD to revert my changes and load
> nvidia again.

Does blacklisting both nvidia and nouveau work?

Can you say a little more about how nouveau makes your laptop
video useless (preferably with logs, e.g. if you can ssh in)?  That
would be another, important bug.

Thanks and hope that helps,
Jonathan