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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2013-April/024307.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2013-April/024307.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ed13ace21 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2013-April/024307.html @@ -0,0 +1,122 @@ +<!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=%3C51630F48.8030101%40kde.org%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="024302.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="024308.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?</H1> + <B>Anne Wilson</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=%3C51630F48.8030101%40kde.org%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?">annew at kde.org + </A><BR> + <I>Mon Apr 8 20:41:12 CEST 2013</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="024302.html">[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="024308.html">[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#24307">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#24307">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#24307">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#24307">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- +Hash: SHA1 + +On 08/04/13 18:28, Frank Griffin wrote: +><i> On 04/08/2013 12:52 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: +</I>>><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 +</I>>><i> activity led flickering, but no output to the screen, with or +</I>>><i> without Esc. I can boot into Safe moade, which lands me in +</I>>><i> Rescue Mode - but I haven't a clue what to do next. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> If you don't even get text mode, this sounds like the old problem +</I>><i> of radeon drivers which require nonfree firmware not having the +</I>><i> firmware available. There was a long stretch where, if you had +</I>><i> such a card, you needed to install with the x11 vesa driver, boot, +</I>><i> install the firmware, and then use XFdrake to switch to the radeon +</I>><i> driver. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Do you have a card that uses the radeon driver ? If so, did you +</I>><i> enable nonfree during the upgrade ? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> You can try the following: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> 1) Boot the rescue system 2) drvinst 3) mount your root as /mnt 4) +</I>><i> do a "mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev 5) do a "chroot /mnt" 6) do a +</I>><i> "mount -t proc none /proc" 7) do a "mount -t sysfs none /sys" 8) do +</I>><i> "XFdrake" 9) choose the x11 VESA or VGA driver (way down at bottom +</I>><i> of list) 10) reboot and see if TTY mode now works +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If it does, then add nonfree as a urpmi repository and install the +</I>><i> nonfree radeon firmware package. Then run XFdrake in the real +</I>><i> system to set yourself back to the radeon driver that XFdrake +</I>><i> should default to. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If you're not using radeon, you may want to do (1) - (10) anyway +</I>><i> just to see if your system works with the basic driver. +</I> +No, it doesn't. When I ran XFdrake the test did display colours, +though at a resolution I wouldn't want to work with :-) However, on +reboot I still have a backlit black screen. + +I'm sure you are on the right track. It's not radeon, though, it's +Intel 810 and later. I see that listed in XFdrake, but if I try to +use it I'm told that there are no screens. Not sure what that means, +though. + +When booting into rescue, I saw several items listed as "Intel +Corporation:NM10/ICH7 Family" which sounds right to me. + +So - I need Intel drivers (and firmware). Can I use the same rescue +processes to get the Internet working so that I can download them? + +Odd, though, that even VESA didn't work. + +Anne +-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- +Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) +Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - <A HREF="http://www.enigmail.net/">http://www.enigmail.net/</A> + +iEYEARECAAYFAlFjD0YACgkQj93fyh4cnBdK/QCfcK0zbk70QoyCrn1TID+OCmLy +oiMAn03GaoFmsCIZP4xwfK1NS1bleEQp +=zWqb +-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="024302.html">[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="024308.html">[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#24307">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#24307">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#24307">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#24307">[ 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> |