Re: X starting but nothing shows on the screen
On 11 May 2010, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> You said that the freeze happens with nv and vesa, no mention of nouveau…
> Anyway, please file a bug report. If the nouveau X driver works with
> 2.6.32-4-686 but not 2.6.32-5-686, linux-2.6 is the right package.
>
I did say that nouveau doesn't even start on 2.6.32-5-686.
> > This is on my desktop. On my laptop, with radeon, nouveau works.
>
> It surely does not because it's only for Nvidia hardware. Whatever
> works with your Radeon card must be something else.
>
Sorry, yes; I should have said that the radeon driver works on the
laptop with 2.6.32-5-686.
Anthony
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