Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

On 06/04/2010 05:56 PM, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> On 20:17 Fri 04 Jun     , Sven Joachim wrote:
>    
> > On 2010-06-04 20:09 +0200, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> >
> >      
> > > another option is to ban the entire new nouveau driver from your system
> > > which should restore some sanity.
> > >        
> > Except that kent got a black display without it.
> >
> >      
> > > it will get rid of the framebuffer use/
> > >
> > > here is one thing to try.
> > >
> > > add the following line to the file
> > >
> > > /etc/modpobe.d/blacklist.conf
> > >
> > > blacklist nouveau
> > >        
> > Note that this is not sufficient with the latest xserver-xorg-core, you
> > also need to specify a video driver in xorg.conf lest X will cause the
> > module to be loaded.  Or remove the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package.
> >      
> You are right I had done that too!
>
> I needed to ban nouveau from the kernel, otherwise I could not compile my binary Nvidia drivers...
>
> Mitchell
>
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> > Sven
> >
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I blacklisted the nouveau driver, but left the 
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package installed.

There's simply something hokey about this monitor and Testing/Sid. All I 
get is a black screen when I boot into a console or exit from X to a 
console. However, if I type blindly and login and "startx", I get a 
usable screen on one monitor only (the second monitor stays dark).

So now I have two issues:

1) in console, this monitor stays black or only displays about a 1/4s 
worth of screen real estate

2) I no longer have dual-monitors.

I'd be happy to file a bug, but I don't know if this would be against 
the nouveau package (which as far as I can tell focuses on X drivers, 
not console drivers where the first problem is), or against the grub2 
package which seems to have something to do with setting the console 
resolution, or the kernel, or what.


I can live with rebuilding my box back to stable (at the cost of losing 
the ability to print to my printer), but if I don't file a bug report, 
how many other people will this problem bite?

Thanks for any suggestions!


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