Re: X starting but nothing shows on the screen
On 10 May 2010, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-05-10 09:47 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> > Which kernel? With 2.6.32-5-685, X always locks up here? The mouse
> > freezes and all the keys are inactive so I have to do a hard reset. This
> > happens with both the nv and vesa drivers.
>
> You should try nouveau or fbdev with that kernel. The 2.6.32-5-$ARCH
> kernel autoloads nouveau.ko which provides kernel modesetting, and both
> nv and vesa are not compatible with that.
>
> Sven
>
I have nouveau and it works with 2.6.32-4-686. It doesn't work with
2.6.32-5-686; no screens are found. I don't know anything about fbdev.
This is on my desktop. On my laptop, with radeon, nouveau works.
Anthony
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