Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-07 Thread Kent West
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 d

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-04 Thread Mitchell Laks
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 fr

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-04 Thread Sven Joachim
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 foll

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-04 Thread Mitchell Laks
another option is to ban the entire new nouveau driver from your system which should restore some sanity. 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 then reboot. that is what i did. Mi

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-03 22:36 +0200, Kent West wrote: > In the grub screen where you select which kernel to boot, I pressed > "e" to edit the kernel line of my choice, then went to the "linux" > line that had things like /quiet and ro and root=UUIDblahblahblah and > added "video=1024x768", then pressed Ctrl

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
On 06/03/2010 03:25 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-03 22:06 +0200, Kent West wrote: On 06/03/2010 02:35 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: You may try booting with the video=… option, e.g. video=1280x1024 or whatever your monitor's resolution is. Where would I put this line?

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-03 22:06 +0200, Kent West wrote: > On 06/03/2010 02:35 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> You may try booting with the video=… option, e.g. video=1280x1024 or >> whatever your monitor's resolution is. >> > > Where would I put this line? Append it to the kernel command line. I don't use grub2,

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
On 06/03/2010 02:35 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-03 21:06 +0200, Kent West wrote: So I figured I'd push on to Sid/unstable, to see if maybe I'd get newer drivers that might solve this issue. How interesting.! Now when I reboot (into the newly installed 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP kernel,

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-03 21:06 +0200, Kent West wrote: > On 06/03/2010 12:01 PM, Kent West wrote: >> I've been running stable for the past half-year, but because I >> couldn't get my printer to work with the hplij in stable, decided to >> dist-upgrade to testing which has a version that supports my >> printe

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
On 06/03/2010 12:01 PM, Kent West wrote: I've been running stable for the past half-year, but because I couldn't get my printer to work with the hplij in stable, decided to dist-upgrade to testing which has a version that supports my printer. But when I dist-upgraded, my dual-monitor setup fre