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| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2013-April/024302.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2013-April/024302.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..91de558ba --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2013-April/024302.html @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems? + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20M3%20beta%20-%20where%20to%20report%20problems%3F&In-Reply-To=%3C5162FE3E.9080303%40roadrunner.com%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="024301.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="024307.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?</H1> + <B>Frank Griffin</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20M3%20beta%20-%20where%20to%20report%20problems%3F&In-Reply-To=%3C5162FE3E.9080303%40roadrunner.com%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?">ftg at roadrunner.com + </A><BR> + <I>Mon Apr 8 19:28:30 CEST 2013</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="024301.html">[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="024307.html">[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#24302">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#24302">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#24302">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#24302">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>On 04/08/2013 12:52 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: +><i> Something very odd is happening, indeed. Remember this was a +</I>><i> functioning system before I did the updates. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Rebooting, nothing has changed. I get grub, lots of disk activity led +</I>><i> flickering, but no output to the screen, with or without Esc. I can +</I>><i> boot into Safe moade, which lands me in Rescue Mode - but I haven't a +</I>><i> clue what to do next. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>If you don't even get text mode, this sounds like the old problem of +radeon drivers which require nonfree firmware not having the firmware +available. There was a long stretch where, if you had such a card, you +needed to install with the x11 vesa driver, boot, install the firmware, +and then use XFdrake to switch to the radeon driver. + +Do you have a card that uses the radeon driver ? If so, did you enable +nonfree during the upgrade ? + +You can try the following: + +1) Boot the rescue system +2) drvinst +3) mount your root as /mnt +4) do a "mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev +5) do a "chroot /mnt" +6) do a "mount -t proc none /proc" +7) do a "mount -t sysfs none /sys" +8) do "XFdrake" +9) choose the x11 VESA or VGA driver (way down at bottom of list) +10) reboot and see if TTY mode now works + +If it does, then add nonfree as a urpmi repository and install the +nonfree radeon firmware package. Then run XFdrake in the real system to +set yourself back to the radeon driver that XFdrake should default to. + +If you're not using radeon, you may want to do (1) - (10) anyway just to +see if your system works with the basic driver. +</PRE> + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="024301.html">[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="024307.html">[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#24302">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#24302">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#24302">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#24302">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |