[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

Mon Apr 8 19:28:30 CEST 2013

On 04/08/2013 12:52 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
+> Something very odd is happening, indeed.  Remember this was a
+> functioning system before I did the updates.
+>
+> Rebooting, nothing has changed.  I get grub, lots of disk activity led
+> flickering, but no output to the screen, with or without Esc.  I can
+> boot into Safe moade, which lands me in Rescue Mode - but I haven't a
+> clue what to do next.
+>
+>
+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.
+