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Re: X starting but nothing shows on the screen



On 11 May 2010, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> 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.
> > 

Sorry to follow up to myself, but I thought I should report that I
reinstalled linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 after it froze while booting, and X
now starts without problems (using nouveau). So I suppose the package
originally became corrupted during downloading.

Anthony


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