Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

[Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com>]

So you're still not getting modesetting. Are you sure you booted
*without* "nomodeset" on the kernel line?

> The dmesg file was empty.

Strange.

Petter

​I haven't tried the nomodeset thing yet.

My sources.list file looks like this:

​#

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Jessie_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20140908-06:10]/ jessie contrib main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Jessie_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20140908-06:10]/ jessie contrib main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Stretch_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20150518-05:37]/ stretch contrib main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Stretch_ - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20150518-05:36]/ stretch main

deb http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian/ stretch main contrib nonfree

deb-src http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian/ stretch main contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib nonfree

deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib 

 #jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'

#deb http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib

#deb-src http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib

# jessie-backports, previously on backports.debian.org

#deb http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib

#deb-src http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib

​I added some nonfree entries in case that would help with the firmware problem....

Regards

MF​

 

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