Bugzilla – Bug 156954
Upgrade from 10.0 to 10.1 on an old machine: black screen on startup
Last modified: 2006-03-15 16:34:59 UTC
When upgrading my workstation (a bit old machine - please see the attached HW logs), the screen goes black right at the start of the installation, when the X server starts. It is still possible to switch to console, the computer is not frozen, just the X server does not show anything.
Created attachment 72180 [details] The output of hwinfo
The last words printed on the console before it started the X server were: Found a Linux console terminal on /dev/console (80 columns x 25 lines). Please supply a config file *** Starting YaST2 ***
The installation does not continue even after sttoping the X server via Ctrl+Alt+Backspace; it restarts and gets to the same state again :-( The only way to circumvent this seems to be specifying 'textmode=1' on the kernel commandline. Raising severity to Critical, sorry...
Are you using the correct resolution and color depth for the installation. Does booting with `hwprobe=-gfx' help?
I will try. Maybe it could be a duplicate of Bug 155018?
Please try the `hwprobe=-gfxcard' or `hwprobe=-monitor' workaround. Is the information for your screen printed out by `hwinfo' correct? Maby it just uses an incompatible mode or resolution, as it tends to use the higher modes.
Unfortunately, neither 'hwprobe=-gfxcard' nor 'hwprobe=-monitor' do not affect the bug; I have tried changing the initial VGA mode, but it also does not seem to have any effect. The only workaround that worked for me so far is 'textmode=1'. The result of hwinfo seems correct to me; here is just the result of 'hwinfo --gfxcard': -------------------------------------------------- 20: PCI(AGP) 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.277] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_181 Unique ID: VCu0.XmjeW2QsClA Parent ID: vSkL.G5TSYaRmfUB SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X" Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation" Device: pci 0x0181 "GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X" Revision: 0xa4 Memory Range: 0xf6000000-0xf6ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff (rw,prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xf7fe0000-0xf7ffffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 10 (469 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000181sv00000000sd00000000bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: XFree86 v4 Server Module: nv Driver Info #1: XFree86 v4 Server Module: nvidia 3D Support: yes Color Depths: 16 Extensions: Options: Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #11 (PCI bridge) Primary display adapter: #20 ----------------------------------- And this is what 'hwinfo --monitor' says: ----------------------------------- 21: None 00.0: 10000 Monitor [Created at monitor.85] Unique ID: rdCR.+VXe_JYsJQ3 Hardware Class: monitor Model: "SAMSUNG SyncMaster" Vendor: SAM "SAMSUNG" Device: eisa 0x010e "SyncMaster" Serial ID: "HMDY400884" Resolution: 720x400@70Hz Resolution: 640x480@60Hz Resolution: 640x480@67Hz Resolution: 640x480@72Hz Resolution: 640x480@75Hz Resolution: 800x600@56Hz Resolution: 800x600@60Hz Resolution: 800x600@72Hz Resolution: 800x600@75Hz Resolution: 832x624@75Hz Resolution: 1024x768@60Hz Resolution: 1024x768@70Hz Resolution: 1024x768@75Hz Resolution: 1280x1024@75Hz Resolution: 1280x1024@60Hz Resolution: 1152x864@75Hz Size: 376x301 mm Driver Info #0: Max. Resolution: 1280x1024 Vert. Sync Range: 56-75 Hz Hor. Sync Range: 30-81 kHz Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown --------------------------------------------------
If all these modelines are correct, I assume it's a problem with X11. Asking Stefan for help. This is a Geforce 440MX, Stefan, old card but probably still widely used.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155018 ***