Re: Upgrade Kernel, Lose External Display
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:06:04 -0400
Gilbert Sullivan <whirlygig@comcast.net> wrote:
> Running Squeeze with Xfce desktop environment (only) on Dell Latitude
> D810. Nvidia video card running the VESA driver (though there's a bunch
> of verbiage in dmesg about nouveau). System is normally connected to a
> port replicator and DVI display (1680x1050).
>
> Upgraded from 2.6.32-3 to 2.6.32-6 this morning, saying yes to
> reconfiguration.
>
> Upon reboot I see the normal scrolling of messages in the middle of the
> screen, but (after populating devices message) the screen goes black.
>
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>
> Many thanks for clues.
>
>
Hi!
I've ran into this too, and got this solved by blacklisting the nouveau
module in
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
(adding a line containing just "blacklist nouveau"),
and adding modeset=0 to my kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst (I am
still on grub-legacy, don't know how it is done on grub-2 unfortunately)
This made the system boot fine, but X didn't start before reinstalling
the nvidia drivers. Doing so and rebooted I was in a functional X, just
like before the upgrade of the kernel.
best regards
--
Andreas Rönnquist <gusnan@gusnan.se>
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