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

Mon Apr 8 20:41:12 CEST 2013

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+On 08/04/13 18:28, Frank Griffin wrote:
+> 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.
+
+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
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