My latest build is LFS-SVN-20120623. When I loaded x-7.7-1 on top I found that the latest nvidia proprietary driver, 295.59, locked up the GPU. May be the optimizations are incompatible with the latest xorg-server - who knows?
I thought I'd try the nouveau driver in the BLFS book so I compiled the drm nouveau modules into the kernel. When I booted the laptop, the screen went blank and then cycled through red, green, blue and white - continuously. I could only do Alt+sysRQ+b to reboot it. Everything else was dead. As a last resort I went to http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallDRM and did an out-of-the-tree build of the modules to see if the latest versions were any different. I got the same result. I read that the graphics card can do this if it does not receive any signal. Other than that, I have no idea why this happens. Any suggestions would be welcome - apart from trashing the laptop or the graphics card. Thanks jb. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
