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Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors



On 2010-06-03 22:36 +0200, Kent West wrote:

> In the grub screen where you select which kernel to boot, I pressed
> "e" to edit the kernel line of my choice, then went to the "linux"
> line that had things like /quiet and ro and root=UUIDblahblahblah and
> added "video=1024x768", then pressed Ctrl-X to continue booting. All I
> got was a black screen. Reboot. Try again, with a different
> resolution. I tried 1900x1600, 1700x1200, 800x600, 640x480; all black
> screens. Finally left it alone and am back where I started; the upper
> left quadrant of my screen is the most display I have.

Might be one of the problems mentioned at the end of
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/TroubleShooting.  I don't really
know what to do, but you can send the output of "dmesg | grep drm".

Sven


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