Bug#741584: booting T440p with Debian testing - problems

[Mr Smith <mr.smith476@gmail.com>]

Thanks John for your prompt response!

you are the HERO!  your suggestion worked instantly!!!

being quite new with Linux I have almost given up after several rounds of installation...

I assume this bug will not change even with the stable Debian 7 release (?) - where to find out if this problem will  be solved and how?

best greetings and Many thanks again!!!
MS

2014-04-22 14:30 GMT+03:00 John M. <jwmwalrus@gmail.com>:

Hi,

My workaround was to (boot in recovery mode and) blacklist nouveau, as in:

# echo 'blacklist nouveau' > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

After that, reboot in normal mode.

It seems that the 3.13.x kernel is trying to load drivers for both the Intel and NVIDIA cards, and there's a BIOS-related bug that makes the NVIDIA card misbehave when on Linux.  Previous versions of the kernel didn't do that.

I hope that helps.

--
John.

On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 14:13 +0300, Mr Smith wrote:

I found that you had a very similar problem as myself:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741584

I have bought new Thinkpad T440p and aimed to install dualboot Win7/Debian testing.

I have tried the Debian alpha-installer amd64 from 19 March 2014 but the system does not boot correctly (no GUI; login not reacting etc)

Is there any workaround?

Any help would be appreciated very much!

MS