Re: debian on soneview notebook
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:45:35 -0400, Ozkar L. Garcell wrote:
(please, keep the replies at the bottom)
> On 08/29/2012 12:56 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>> Try to append "nomodeset" at the boot kernel line. Can you jump to a
>> debug tty? If so, what's printed in the screen? (you can make a
>> snapshot, upload the image to some place and send the link here)
> Thanks for the answer. No I cannot jump for any tty, just reboot the
> system.
What happens when you you go to a tty? Black/white screen? Is the system
able to boot or is even installed?
> Perhaps is a video driver failure, 'cause this notebook have a ATI
> chiptset. Now I am recompiling the kernel, with the appropiate flags
> for my hardware, in few minutes I will post what happens. And I will try
> with "nomodeset" to the kernel cmd line.
There should be no problems with an ATI card/chipset other than the usual
(that is, KMS).
> PS: With Ubuntu and OpenSuSe the notebook works fine, Debian is the
> "problem".
I'd say that kernel 3.2 (or a mix between kernel/xserver) is the
"problem" (you said on older Debian it worked fine) ;-)
You can run lsmod from either Ubuntu or openSUSE and note what's the VGA
driver and kernel and xorg version in use.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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