Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

2012-01-26 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-01-25 23:51 +0100, Tom H wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> >>> The metapackage has not yet migrated, it seems. But 3.1 really is not >>> supported anymore, neither by Debian nor by upstream. >> >> Th

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

2012-01-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-01-25 23:51 +0100, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> The metapackage has not yet migrated, it seems. But 3.1 really is not >> supported anymore, neither by Debian nor by upstream. > > This can't be. I installed a testing box and upgraded it to unsta

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

2012-01-25 Thread Rémi Moyen
Le 25 janvier 2012 20:09, Sven Joachim a écrit : >> I don't want to nominally install the 3.2 >> kernel, I only want the latest one, so I think I'll stick to >> linux-image-amd64 and wait until that updates to 3.2. Should be quite >> soon, I guess. > > As long as you don't have untrusted users on

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

2012-01-25 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-01-25 20:38 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: >> Le 25 janvier 2012 18:10, Sven Joachim a écrit : >>> On 2012-01-25 18:04 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: Kernel 3.2 seems to be still in unstable, I'd rather not install something from t

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

2012-01-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-01-25 20:38 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: > Le 25 janvier 2012 18:10, Sven Joachim a écrit : >> On 2012-01-25 18:04 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: > >>> Kernel 3.2 seems to be still in unstable, I'd rather not install >>> something from there if I can avoid it. >> >> No, 3.2 has been in testing for

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

2012-01-25 Thread Rémi Moyen
Le 25 janvier 2012 18:10, Sven Joachim a écrit : > On 2012-01-25 18:04 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: > >> I am also guessing, based on this (why didn't I think about that >> earlier?) that in the 3.1 kernel, my card is supposed to be supported >> by nouveau, hence it tries to use it (and this causes al

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

2012-01-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-01-25 18:04 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: > I am also guessing, based on this (why didn't I think about that > earlier?) that in the 3.1 kernel, my card is supposed to be supported > by nouveau, hence it tries to use it (and this causes all my problems) > whereas in 2.6.32 it doesn't even try t

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

2012-01-25 Thread Rémi Moyen
Le 25 janvier 2012 16:07, Sven Joachim a écrit : > On 2012-01-25 16:33 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: > >> Well, I'm guessing that at the early stage of the boot some very crude >> driver is used and things fail when the kernel tries to load/use >> something more complicated. Kernel 3.1 can display some

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

2012-01-25 Thread Rémi Moyen
Le 25 janvier 2012 16:07, richard a écrit : > OK different approach. > You can identify if its kernel 3 problem or not by booting up off a live cd. > Download a Fedora FC16 live CD.. Good point. If I don't find another way to tweak the install, I'll try that. -- Rémi Moyen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

2012-01-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-01-25 16:33 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: > Well, I'm guessing that at the early stage of the boot some very crude > driver is used and things fail when the kernel tries to load/use > something more complicated. Kernel 3.1 can display something but only > using the "big" characters at startup (

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

2012-01-25 Thread richard
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:33:19 + Rémi Moyen wrote: < Gurt big snip> OK different approach. You can identify if its kernel 3 problem or not by booting up off a live cd. Download a Fedora FC16 live CD.. Yes I said Fedora, I've found the hard way that Debian is a bit fussy with graphics card drive

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

2012-01-25 Thread Rémi Moyen
Le 25 janvier 2012 14:36, Brian a écrit : > On Wed 25 Jan 2012 at 09:56:15 +, Rémi Moyen wrote: > >> OK, so now I get what I think should be a working up-to-date testing >> system. Rebooting on the 2.6.32 kernel works again perfectly. But >> rebooting on the 3.1 kernel starts to boot (it print

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

2012-01-25 Thread Brian
On Wed 25 Jan 2012 at 09:56:15 +, Rémi Moyen wrote: > OK, so now I get what I think should be a working up-to-date testing > system. Rebooting on the 2.6.32 kernel works again perfectly. But > rebooting on the 3.1 kernel starts to boot (it prints at least the > "waiting for udev to be populate

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

2012-01-25 Thread Rémi Moyen
(again, I mistakenly answered Alberto directly instead of the list, so I repost our exchanges here. Sorry...) Le 25 janvier 2012 10:27, Alberto Luaces a écrit : > If you are not running or have X installed, you can uninstall nouveau > and nvidia-glx packages. Yes, I agree. I installed nvidia-gl

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

2012-01-25 Thread Rémi Moyen
(I made a mistake and answered to the posters individually instead of the list, so I'll post my answers here again. Sorry for that!) Le 25 janvier 2012 10:20, richard a écrit : >> I'm installing Debian on a new computer and although the install of >> stable version works fine, after upgrade to t

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

2012-01-25 Thread Alberto Luaces
Rémi Moyen writes: > OK, so now I get what I think should be a working up-to-date testing > system. Rebooting on the 2.6.32 kernel works again perfectly. But > rebooting on the 3.1 kernel starts to boot (it prints at least the > "waiting for udev to be populated" message) and then all I get is a >

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

2012-01-25 Thread richard
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:56:15 + Rémi Moyen wrote: > Hello, > > I'm installing Debian on a new computer and although the install of > stable version works fine, after upgrade to testing I am unable to > boot on the 3.1 kernel. There is no X on the machine (for the moment) > and I get a blank s